Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD)

Multiple personality disorder (also known as dissociative identity disorder) involves the acute state of two separate consciousnesses. the individual becomes separated from reality, forming a distorted perception amongst themselves and their surroundings. It controls the individuals behavior, through the array of identities or personality states exclusive to themselves. Various factors are taken into consideration regarding the diagnosis of this non-infectious disease. This includes, two or more distinct identities, specific personalities present in particular circumstances, memory lapses, sexual dysfunction, consistent depression, anxiety and passivity and visual or auditory hallucinations.

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this has been the result of higher awareness and the constant publicity it exudes, through mediums such as television and film. Within 1970, only eight cases of MPD were reported. Yet in 1976, the film ‘Sybil’ was released (based on the life of a woman who suffered from multiple personality disorder), receiving a significant amount of recognition. It ultimately accounted for the increase of diagnosis. through the extensive awareness of the disability, by 1995, 40 000 cases of MPD were reported in North America. Conversely, there are much lower rates of MPD in other countries, due to the minimal recognition of the

gender, socio-economic status, childhood, abuse, family history etc). Statistics have discovered that women are more prone to developing multiply personality disorder than men. This could have been justified through the fact that theres a tendency that women experience more abuse than men (60 per-cent of childhood abuse victims are girls). through the expression of this figure, it clearly demonstrates the relationship between abuse (verbal, emotional and physical) and the diagnosis of multiple personality disorder. Furthermore, the classification of ones socio-economic status, undeniably moulds the tendency of acquiring multiple personality disorder. If someones upbringing is relatively rough and encounters consistent financial instability, it may gradually progress to the disturbance of identity. Statistics have illustrated that 1 per-cent of the Australian population are currently diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder. Although it is a small minority that obtain such a disease, it portrays the exclusion of their distinctiveness amongst others of