| The Relationship between Multiple Personality Disorder and Posttraumatic Stress |
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Multiple Personality Disorder is often linked with Posttraumatic Stress disorders. This is because nearly all MPD patients are survivors of serious abuse. The symptoms include distinct personalities usually with different genders, ages, signatures, IQ, and personality. Often they will each have their versions of amnesia, voices in their head, and nightmares. Some signs can include us referring to self, out of body experiences, and so on. Most sufferers are out there alone, as there are few qualified that understanding much about this condition. It’s diagnosis is more often used in a court trial than anywhere else, and usually only by well-to-do defendants that can afford expert witnesses. Otherwise, MPD sufferers are likely out without help. Most survivors will say that in their case they seldom if ever hear the whole truth about their disorder. A difference between MPD and other common disorders is that the MPD patients strive for the truth, accuracy, and precision. In most cases female patients are non-violent though it’s not unheard of. Many male patients wind up in the prison system, often for rape, robbery, among other convictions. Often the crimes were the result of “Projection” or “Interjection” from another personality. Often they may be simply reenacting a horrific moment of their own experiences. To the patient, it may be fighting to defend them self, or simply retaliating. There are many writings covering some aspects of MPD, though with the above in consideration, to really understand much of it, one needs to read many of them, and look for what adds up. There are a number of case studies out there as well. Online, beware there are probably as many fakes as there are real, though at the same time, if more stirs in this area, many may eventually benefit. MPD is a real disorder, and not just a story line in some movie and occasional trial defense. The personalities can include child, adult, teen, elderly, all of which are still parts of the same person. Again, it usually results from some major trauma, and is possibly a built in mechanism to cope with it. MPD patients also often suffer from anorexia/bulimia, sleeping disorders, and many other discomforts. When it comes to the personalities, some are stronger than the others. Most all persons with MPD are very creative, artistic, and very intelligent. After diagnosis of MPD, it can take years to alleviate. Therapists will often avoid diagnosing MPD regardless of the number of symptoms indicating it is the case. Treatment can be very tedious, as tests can change dramatically. Not only for MPD as MRI may show seizures present one day, and nothing to be found the next, but also medically speaking, blood rates and other symptoms may come and go. The sufferer often goes through many years of life dealing with this, until they reach a point beyond coping, then it all may shatter. Then comes the integration process. This is when the various personalities need to come together in their mind for a permanent solution. Once completed, many patients become very distant from the rest of the world, as they have lost the ‘family within’ they have always known and become accustomed to. All of a sudden reality becomes much more apparent such as lying, stealing, controversies, work and all the rest of life’s stresses. After integration, the patient still has the personalities but more in unity but it’s never the same again. Then there is still the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder to deal with, usually from childhood, which is pretty clearly the ONLY cause of MPD. It’s not just a defense in some trial for those that can afford the expert testimony. There are many controversial arguments on this disorder, though the fact remains, it’s real, and we must face the fact that it needs to have better attention to allow more people in society a chance at a happy, and healthy life along with ourselves. |
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