Multiple Personalities
The mental health illness of Multiple Personality Disorder is a hardship for patients, a fascination to filmmakers, authors and the public and a controversy amongst therapists. Tracy Smith reports.
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7:52 Jack Black the doctor
McHugh is a Catholic reactionary — he doesn’t believe in transgenderism either. Pay him absolutely no attention.
MONARCH PROGRAMMINGGGGGGGGGGGG MADE PALATABLE
@EllabellaBenson
I’ve had about 20 at one time or another. I thought we were a lot.
DID is not an illness. It’s a coping mechanism.
Ragi (mania), Tony (dystonia), Thesis (akathesia), Trevor (name of the did personality) and me Terry. I got my Ontario Health and Long Term Care Personal Claim History which showed Malignant Neoplasms Brain; Terry took over again.
Paxil back in 2001 to 2002 left me with DID this was the most horrible experience I have been through and its being done to the children.
I have it. I have 97 or more. That doctor makes me mad
MPD is not the same as DID. I (or we, if you prefer) have MPD, but not textbook DID.
The reason MPD/DID cases have jumped: The mind has to realize that it can DO this. By calling attention to the concept, we make it possible.
The important thing to remember is that this is not a disease. There may be crazy alters, but multiplicity itself is not insanity. Alters are not germs, tumors or parasites, they’re people.
@grapefruitwins That doctor doesn’t seem to get how the DSM is put together. It’s a little more difficult than ‘a few people making stuff up’.
Research on neurological aspects of DID have observed brainwave shifts to the ages associated with particular parts, so when a particular part comes up who is associated with traumas at age 5, the brainwave data reflects that of a 5 year old rather than the person’s actual age. Which can’t exactly be faked.
I can’t believe intelligent doctors could think this disorder is fake. Like someone would want to make something up that requires you to take a hundred pills a week that make you fat and groggy.
Hi, My Names Alex.
AND I AM GAY
I Have Multiple Personalitys.
(2 Alters) The First One Is “Frank”
A STRAIGHT Male, Nothing Intresting
About Him, Hes Just Straight. No Im NOT Confused!! I Know Im Gay. The Second One … Is A Part
Of Me, Who Feels The Desire To Hurt
MY OWN FRIENDS Just To Get What
I Want… And I Think I Like It… I Mean Its Not Like Ima Kill Them…
MPD is NOT fascinating i personally cannot think of a more untouchable problem in the world of mental health, one individual with this condition has ruined what seemed to be 3 lifelong mates, her family and still thinks that other people are the ones with the real problems! So i say fuck those people who watch this on a level of fascination!
i do noy like that doctor that said that it was all fake whf
FKiNGz23, etc.,
Like all psychological disorders, DID exists on a spectrum. Every single person alive has different “aspects” of their personality (who you are at work, who you are with your friends, etc.) DID is simply an extended expression of this. A CHILD’S brain is extremely flexible and can create as many “aspects” as necessary, each one for a purpose, usually to tolerate chronic, severe traumatic events that no ONE person could ever bear. Adults in such situations simply go insane.
I’d love do see that doctor explain how any one person can “fabricate” the distinct mannerisms, thought-processes, developmental stages, perspectives, motor-skill levels, and academic abilities of a 5 year-old, 8 year-old, 10-year-old, 12-year-old, 15-year-old, etc., and to do so “spontaneously” or via “prompting” without years of psychological, sociological, and acting training and knowledge… Seriously! His apparent lack of understanding for the complexity of this diagnosis is embarrassing.
i have it (19 alters)
wtf y would it be fake?
Well, Dr. Paul, I’m REAL glad you’re not my docter. But , then again, your opinion doesn’t change reality. We WISH it was just Oz. Then we could click our shoes and get “better”. Stop taking that LSD, will ya?
I’ll talk to “him” myself
haha yeah im livin with bitterness etc cos i sent a message on youtube, stop makin such a big deal about it
Sweetie, you cant steal my joy no matter what you try to say. I hope you have a wonderful evening and I will talk to the big guy upstairs and tell him to send people into your life who will make a difference for the positive. You really dont have to live like that with all that bitterness and hatred. It’s a choice you and only YOU make. I wish you the best and peace kiddo.
Woops I didnt know u were old sorry!
I’m smiling inside because i know you dont understand what you’re saying, its ok pet, its not your fault you’re fucked up
I am smiling because I know you are hurting inside which is why you choose to try to bait people with your comments all over You Tube. I can see through that and deep inside you feel lost and unloved. You are looking for attention and reactions as a way to fill the void. I see you for who you are. A hurt child inside who is covering up the pain by trying to mask it with a hard nasty exterior.
You make your own misery so I am sending love and kindness to you. Blessings!
This must be the holy personality