Multiple Personality Disorder Essay

As children, we have all done things like play make believe. We would take on completely new personalities and change characteristics of ourselves, but only for fun. This is expected of children, they use their imagination to create new people and realities. The question is at what point in time was it appropriate to leave an overactive imagination in the past? When looking at a person with Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) one would say that a person never grew out of the role playing that is found so fascinating to a child. After years of doctors believing that patients with this disorder were possessed by demons and being rejected by behaviorists such as Sigmund Freud. MPD was diagnosed in its first patient in 1865. From then on Doctors

These personalities are capable of completely taking over the person’s behavior. As stated in an article by Lucid Pages, entitled Multiple Personality Disorder, a person with MPD has an inability to recall personal information and is also incapable of recognizing actual reality. Each personality has their own set of memories, behavior, and personal history. Often times gaps in the memory appear involving people and events that occurred in both in the past and more recently. Different personalities may remember different events and hold on to different memories. Studies have shown that different personalities appear during certain circumstances, and are used to take control of current situations. Living in South London, a woman by the name of Kim Noble has recently given Amanda Mitchison, a journalist for The Guardian, a look into her life as well as the lives of her many personalities. In the interview Kim talks about her daily routine. It is interesting to find that Kim changes character for even the smallest of tasks. When asked how many personality changes she endured just that morning she replied "This morning Spirit of the Water had a bath. And one of them was painting – it might have been Abi. And then the vacuum cleaning, another person was doing that before you came." Deeper into the interview Kim recalls her childhood. It is made clear

For example behavioral, humanistic, and subjects that dealt with unconscious behavior. it 's interesting to look at how the brain is able to create more than one person and personality. It’s interesting how events that occur in the present are able to reach someones subconscious making them relive or remember something they have been avoiding. The brain is able to create several different realities without even being aware of it to escape reality. In my opinion its almost like a curse and a blessing. When something so traumatic happens, we would do anything to be able to forget the negativity that was brought upon us. But to not be able to control your memories and own personality is more unhealthy and trouble then its