Multiple Personalities and Mental Illnesses

Debating against the existence of the controversial issue of multiple personalities in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychology, 1995, author Paul McHugh concludes that the DSM's (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) current diagnosis of Multiple Personality Disorders (now referred to as Disassociative Identity Disorder) should not, and he predicts will not, survive long enough to make it into future editions.

We dissociate sometimes and find ourselves forgetting where we have last placed our belongings. We might even fail to recognize our reflections in the mirror and lose our way home. These dissociation's however can be considered normal and can simply be caused by stress and fatigue.

After nearly twenty years of quietly battling despair, an overpowering oppression, and loneliness alone, Anna could no longer curb her emotions. A job related incident forced her to seek counseling. Suicidal thoughts, hospitalization, psychotherapy, pastoral counseling, and a supportive husband helped Anna through long years of terror as she faced the reality of Dissociative Identity Disorder and multiple personalities.

After several months, he came out of depression. This gave him the freedom to seek other work. He soon found work as a Fireman. He worked in this role for 10 years. During the first 6 to 7 years of his life, he was fit. However, he went into depression again and left work. His wife left him and it took him several years to get out of depression. He now talks widely on the subject from a practical perspective.

The same thing happens to other ailments...allergies, diseases like diabetes, colour blindness, lazy eye, and even eye colour, have all been observed to completely disappear or change when a different personality is dominant. Intelligence is also affected. If John is fluent in French, peter would not be able to speak a word of French.

Most people are split personalities. However the symptoms of this splitness differ depending upon the severity of the painful traumatic experiences which split the person and the degree of evolution of the person which increasingly helps the person to manage more trauma and more splits without giving the game away to others.

Have you been in a conflict with your partner, spouse, or child, tempers are flaring, words may be flying, and then the phone rings? I'm guessing that you answer the phone with a cheery, 'Good morning. Oh hi. I'm wonderful and how about you?' You may instantly take on a positive cheery personality.

Typically, Codependency refers to a person's deliberate or inadvertent support of another's addiction or dependence. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder of the Personality is characterized by a persistent preoccupation with perfectionism, orderliness, and mental and interpersonal control, which severely limits openness, flexibility, and efficiency. Reaction formation-defending against an unacceptable impulse by expressing its opposite-is a defense mechanism that people diagnosed with Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder most often rely on.

Most business owners (including myself) know how and when to be the technician, how to do the technical work (the work of the business), that is how we got started, and who we have always been. Most of us also know something about being the manager and with a greater or lesser degree of efficiency we carry out the work of the manager, maybe a bit later than we'd like, or just pushing the deadlines.

Emotions function on healthy and unhealthy levels. So how do we define what is healthy? Who gets to determine that? Is it possible that all of humanity will agree (100%) on what healthy emotions consist of? Most likely not. What one considers healthy emotional projection, for their own survival, may not be viewed as healthy by someone else's standards.

If you are a supporter, you may have figured out on your own that we consumers are very sensitive to what you say to us. There is a reason for that, and I'll point out right here that the flip side to us getting upset about things so easily is that we feel all emotions deeply, including our love for you. But, I digress...because we feel so deeply, especially early in our recovery, there are some things that a supporter can read that a consumer possibly could not.

People dealing with DID are often smart, funny and caring people. They appreciate your support and know that they are confusing to live with. I gave the support group I lead the assignment to compile a list, much like a person with epilepsy might want to do, indentifying what people around them can do to be helpful when they switch. Together they came up with the following.

The unconscious mind shows us how we can completely eliminate the dangerous influence of the anti-conscience before it becomes too powerful, and how we can transform it into a positive part of our conscious mind. It also helps us get rid of the anti-conscience's control when we are already mentally ill.


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