Alyssa Copeland
08 December 2015
Neal Brooks
Psych 1030
DID / MPD Most of us have experienced mild dissociation, like getting lost in the moment while at school or work or daydreaming. However, dissociative identity disorder is a severe form of dissociation, a mental process which produces a lack of connection in a person's thoughts, sense of identity, feelings, memories, or actions. The dissociative aspect is a type of coping mechanism -- the person would literally dissociate themselves from a situation or experience that's too traumatic, painful, or violent to comprehend with their conscious self. The new conscious that can deal with hard and violent situations is known as an “alter.” Have you ever drove home and realize that you don’t remember when you turned on the street you lived on? Or you give a speech and when it’s over you can’t recall if you said everything or talked too fast, you know you did it but don’t remember how it was done. In this paper I will inform you of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) or as commonly known as Multiple Personality Disorder; I will …show more content…
Schizophrenia is a severe mental illness involving recurring (chronic) psychosis, characterized mainly by hallucinations, hearing or seeing things that aren't real, and delusions, thinking or believing things with no basis in reality. Contrary to popular misconceptions, people with schizophrenia do not have multiple personalities. Delusions are the most common psychotic symptom in schizophrenia; hallucinations, particularly hearing voices, are apparent in about half of people with the illness. Suicide is a risk with both dissociative identity disorder and schizophrenia, although patients with dissociative identity disorder have a history of suicide attempts more often than other psychiatric patients.
08 December 2015
Neal Brooks
Psych 1030
DID / MPD Most of us have experienced mild dissociation, like getting lost in the moment while at school or work or daydreaming. However, dissociative identity disorder is a severe form of dissociation, a mental process which produces a lack of connection in a person's thoughts, sense of identity, feelings, memories, or actions. The dissociative aspect is a type of coping mechanism -- the person would literally dissociate themselves from a situation or experience that's too traumatic, painful, or violent to comprehend with their conscious self. The new conscious that can deal with hard and violent situations is known as an “alter.” Have you ever drove home and realize that you don’t remember when you turned on the street you lived on? Or you give a speech and when it’s over you can’t recall if you said everything or talked too fast, you know you did it but don’t remember how it was done. In this paper I will inform you of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) or as commonly known as Multiple Personality Disorder; I will …show more content…
Schizophrenia is a severe mental illness involving recurring (chronic) psychosis, characterized mainly by hallucinations, hearing or seeing things that aren't real, and delusions, thinking or believing things with no basis in reality. Contrary to popular misconceptions, people with schizophrenia do not have multiple personalities. Delusions are the most common psychotic symptom in schizophrenia; hallucinations, particularly hearing voices, are apparent in about half of people with the illness. Suicide is a risk with both dissociative identity disorder and schizophrenia, although patients with dissociative identity disorder have a history of suicide attempts more often than other psychiatric patients.