Get to know people with multiple personalities more closely

Multiple personality disorder is a condition in which there are two or more different personalities in a person. These two figures each stand alone. Physical, emotional, or sexual abuse that occurs repeatedly in childhood risks causing multiple personalities. Multiple personality is also known as dissociative identity disorder. In fact, some people have experienced mild dissociation, such as daydreaming or lost direction when doing something. However, multiple personalities are a form of dissociative disorder that is already severe.

Signs of Multiple Personality Disorders

People who have multiple personalities sometimes don't realize that they have a disorder. One of the signs and symptoms that can indicate that someone has multiple personality traits is feeling like being possessed when the personality will change, some people describe this condition as possessed. The many personalities that emerge in a person are an adaptive response to extreme pain, fear, and trauma. This is similar to the mechanism of self defense. Each personality on multiple personality disorder has a different identity from each other. Each personality has a different mindset, way of speaking, behavior, gender, and age. Each personality can take full control of the sufferer's body in turn. Patients feel there are other people who live in his body. Other signs of multiple personality disorder are:

• Experience memory lapses

Sufferers often forget important dates in their lives, such as the date of birth, date of birth of a child, or date of marriage. This forgetfulness is considered far more severe than normal forgetfulness. Patients also often do not remember the reason when they were somewhere.

• Feel unfamiliar with the people around

The sufferer is called someone else by the name A, even though he feels his name is B. Besides that he feels he does not recognize the people around him when his personality changes.

• Have psychological disorders

People with multiple personalities often feel disturbed by the condition they suffer so that other psychological disorders arise such as being hit by a sense of panic or excessive anxiety. Mood often changes such as often feeling sad, angry, feeling worthless, even to the point of feeling suicidal. Eating and sleeping disorders can also be experienced by people with multiple personalities.

• Symptoms of depersonalization

This sign can be described as a sensation such as watching or seeing yourself when another personality replaces a person's original character. People who experience these symptoms seem helpless and can only see when their bodies are replaced by other personalities. When feeling these symptoms, people with multiple personalities can also find it difficult to recognize reality.

Signs of multiple personality disorders are often equated with schizophrenia, even though the two disorders are far different. Schizophrenia is a mental disorder in which one of the main symptoms is often hallucinating, which is seeing or hearing things that are not real. People with schizophrenia do not experience multiple personalities.

Examination and Management of Multiple Personality Disorders

Signs and symptoms of this multiple personality disorder need to be ensured not appear due to the effects of drugs such as drugs, alcohol, or certain diseases such as epilepsy or brain tumors. To ensure a diagnosis of multiple personality, patients need to be examined by a psychiatrist or doctor. This examination includes physical examination, psychiatric medical evaluation, and supporting examinations such as blood or urine tests to detect possible abuse of certain drugs or substances. In addition, so far there has been no treatment that specifically can cure multiple personalities. Handling is generally recommended is through a combination of psychological therapy, including psychotherapy or counseling and behavioral therapy, accompanied by medication. Because these multiple personality disorders are often accompanied by other psychiatric problems, such as depression and anxiety, antidepressants and tranquilizers may be prescribed to control symptoms. The response of each person with multiple personalities varies, but generally therapy can help manage symptoms if done routinely. Therapy also plays a role in preventing psychological and behavioral problems related to multiple personality disorders. People with multiple personalities may have difficulty maintaining relationships with people around them, can hurt themselves, hurt others, or abuse drugs. Therapy to be undertaken by sufferers will focus on making sufferers comfortable dealing with others and preventing sufferers from doing dangerous things.