Split

Posted by Sean on five 16, 2010 in C'est ma Vie , Fun | 26 comments

First heard of the disease of this split personality disorder (Note that this is a disease) from a Spielberg production for Showtime's TV series "United States of Tara," tells the story of an ordinary family in the United States, his wife suffering from a split personality disorder, split out the variety of personality in the first quarter when there are four, in the second quarter to five. Incidence of split personality disorder, the patient seemed to be possessed by the soul completely into the name of another with an independent personality, behavior, or even life experience of the original nominative most of the time do not know, "wake up" It has been hours or even years.

I know that we Chinese people with mental illnesses, attitude, we generally these people fear or ... contempt, that they are not normal people. But we should think about why they will become like it, they was born on the case? Clearly not. Take the split personality disorder patients, most patients are female, causes great trauma is childhood, the majority of trauma especially sexual trauma. Too tragic childhood was a kid it difficult to accept this reality, so their brains in order to protect them, to split a variety of personality to cope with various difficulties, and so, the nominative case (their own) from injury, or can not remember the injured ...

Read the above, then you must think that this disease is "false", people can always put on a fake personality, but I tell you, in fact, this disease really is true, see the academic personality description:

Split personality, mental illness diagnosis and Statistical Manual version of the name (multiple personality disorder, MPD), which was later renamed (Dissociative the identity disorder, DID), is a kind of mental illness, mental illness, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) classified in the first axis solution from the disease a. Multiple personality with more than one (in the case of the two is known as dual personality), personality exist, just like in a body inhabited by a few soul ". Multiple personality patients with clinical symptoms of each personality is stable and complete development of the individual mode of thought and memory. The split of the personality of a wide range of like, you can have a different gender, age, race, or even species. They in turn appear to control the behavior of the patients, the original personality this time is no consciousness and no memory. The split personality between know each other's existence, there are some cases, between personality and are not aware of each other's existence, this will lead to the serious problem of "missing time" phenomenon. Usually the beginning of this splitting, the original personality (ie, did not result in a person before the multiple personality or the personality) does not know what "they" exist, so even if the patients found that their memories have truncation phenomenon and can not know have been multiple personality, there are some severe cases, the main personality and even "sleeping" more than a decade. Split personality, there is often a know all, if this personality is willing to cooperation, the treatment can be learned from many of the useful information. Generation and causes of multiple personality is closely related to childhood trauma, especially sexual abuse. Patients with male to female ratio (1:9) can be used as evidence, this may be the reason more girls than boys are vulnerable to sexual abuse. Been difficult to cope with the impact of the patient's way of "venting" in order to achieve this did not happen to me "feeling, which may be necessary for long-term serious injury (eg, incest) the. The radical treatment of multiple personality take several years. Treatment, mainly to find out who is familiar with all the personality of the inner personality in multiple personality, let it become the core of personality, and each other, talk and meet other personality, and then find similar personality of the character the first to integrate the various inherent personality to gradually cut the inner personality integration. Authenticity has always been on many people questioned the authenticity of multiple personality, multiple personality whether it is just a parties not knowing the "malingering" behavior? Indeed, the average person the subject implies, can appear similar to the symptoms of multiple personality, "play" a different kind of personality tendencies. This aspect is still controversial, but there are a lot of evidence gradually confirmed human discrete memory system and the unconscious and active mental activity.

Sean is extremely sympathy for this mental illness, which is why I'm more interested in psychology reason (However, my mother studied psychology is also a factor), followed by my own childhood was not very happy, so I am particularly able to understand the to their pain. In particular, I published this article, not only to introduce a disease, is dedicated to those with painful experiences and sensitive mind, they may not know who he is, but they are still worthy of our love, it is worth our care.

"(Digression) Sean doing: In mid-April an article BOD would never updated, know that a month later, this is because Sean is really too busy this month inside: paper was finalized papers to complete the respondent to participate in a video interview in Paris, seven have done quite well already taken back to Nanjing, one week to prepare the three examinations, and all finished the almost no pause, and then I also preparing to go face to sign and driver's license. BOD FotoBook delayed, please understand! "