dissociative identity disorder

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociative_identity_disorder

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... apparently it exists in real life (and online) too.

It's a very strange thing to watch... a bit unsettling to observe someone (literally one person) having a conversation with himself AS the two separate personalities.

Sometimes I wonder if each personality is aware that the *other* personality exists in the SAME BODY... or if each personality believes the other personality actually exists as a "real" person.

It's fascinating.

PS: Did you ever see the movies "Sybill" or "The Three Faces of Eve".

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with michael caine & miss angie dickinson

that was a good movie

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Rule #1.

... disturbing, but still fun to watch!

... a seemingly ordinary person carry on a conversation with himself. (Also this person I know is prone to unexpected and unprovoked bursts of anger. It hasn't manifested itself to the extremes seen in Norman Bates, but it does make me wonder if people with this affliction typically have short fuses and hot tempers.)

Joanne Woodward was superb in the title role.

with different personalities, when she completed one, that one of the other personalities thought would corrupt the data; the offended personality would argue with her in the midst of the whole room, 3rd's and 4th's personalities would come in to mediate each with a separate personality, demeanor, and sometimes accent from another country ...i was odd, but she needed work too

I cannot imagine living with this. I saw the movie 'Sybil' and it left quite an impression.

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(Dissociative Personality Disorder.)

Wikipedia and the movie, "Sybil," aren't really good places to be getting information about these complex and widely misunderstood illnesses.

I wanted to put that out there whether this is an infamous Lounge "joke" thread or not.

Seems like they change the names for psychological conditions every couple of weeks. :D

The woman I knew, with MPD, explained it all to me (the differences among the various dissociative disorders) but I got 'em all confused with the passage of time. I have ACD (Acronym Confusion Disorder).

<< Wikipedia and the movie, "Sybil," aren't really good places to be getting information about these complex and widely misunderstood illnesses. >>

... if you're trying to write a thesis on the subject then either of those sources would be fairly lacking and incomplete.

But for general knowledge and for the sake of discussion (on an informal Internet discussion forum... in the LOUNGE) I see nothing wrong with referencing Wikipedia or the movie Sybil. :shrug:

why is everyone ganging up on good movies :(

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I was just commenting on the fact that Wiki talks about MPD and DPD being similar and how "I" felt about the movie Sybil.

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Or close enough. I was once close to someone who had MPD -- close to some of her personalities, anyway -- and her story is somewhat typical in terms of the condition being brought on by something terrible that happened to her (really awful...confirms the most pessimistic of my feelings about humanity, that people could do what those men did to her) that forced her to seek refuge in what became a permanently fractured psyche. Some psychologists don't beleive the condition is real, but after knowing her I can't see that there is any question. The human mind is an amazing thing, and psychologists are even further behind in understanding it than MDs are at really getting at half of the physical symptoms our bodies exhibit (immune-related conditions, for example)....kind of smugly arrogant to declare something a falsity when you don't even know how the sumbitch works. People with MPD can express totally different physical attributes (posture, handedness, and ailments) and mental abilities (languages, etc, etc) depending upon the personality, too...it's freaky beyond belief.

I saved this woman's life. One of her personalities tried to kill herself and I had to keep a couple of the others -- the ones I mostly interacted with -- awake until help arrived.

If you want to read more about MPD, you might want to check out the book When Rabbit Howls, which is what she/they recommended to me...it's harrowing beyond belief.