What is a person called with a split personality disorder?

Answer 1

Dissociative Identity Disorder, commonly known as split personality disorder is a psychiatric disorder in which the patients displays two or more distinct identities (like alter egos). Each identity is completely different to the other with their own habits and ways of interacting with the world. For DID to take place the personalities must both routinely take over the persons behaviour. The person will have no recollection of what happened whilst being controlled by the other personality nor will have knowledge of the existence of the other identity.

Symptoms include: unexplainable headaches and body pains, depression, severe memory loss, flashbacks of abuse or trauma, unexplainable phobias, comorbidity (the presence of another disorder medical or psychological), sudden anger without cause.

Patients with DID have often suffered severe childhood trauma or abuse.

Answer 2

Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) has been recategorized and renamed in DSM-5, it is now called Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID).

Multiple Personality Disorder (properly known as Dissociative Personality Disorder) is a condition where a person 'dissasociates' - that is, he starts to lose his sense of self- and two or more separate personalities exist within the same mind. It is usually caused by severe, repetitive childhood trauma.

DID can be a serious problem, or well-managed by the individual. Some types of therapy can often be useful in helping people with DID learn to cope with their situation. The diagnosis itself is highly controversial, as social influence and pressure by therapists have been shown to influence results and 'memories' of patients in many cases. Note: MPD/DID is NOT the same thing as having two or more -people- in one mind. If a person suffers no loss of self, and shares a body with one or more other self-aware people, this is considered multiplicity.

DID often is related to PTSD but the traumatic stressoccurred in young childhood before the brain could begin to develop "mature" coping strategies, therefor it manifested with different symptoms.

Answer 3

This is usually an act up from having schizophrenia. It can vary from 4 different types: Simple, Paranoid, Catatonic, and Hebephrenic. I personally think that this falls under either paranoid or catatonic. Hope I helped some

Answer 4

Split personality disorder and multiple personality disorder is now referred to as Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). This is where a persons character is split into 2 or more personalities, each which can control the person independently of the other.

Answer 5

the scientific name, for split personality, would be Dissociative identity disorder, and currently it is believed to be an issue with a persons memory, and as such could experience themself as multiple personalities

Answer 6

The correct term is Dissociative Disorder. See the link below for more information.

Answer 7

I think it's called schizophrenia