Multiple Identity Disorder

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Dissociative identity Disorder also called Multiple Personality Disorder is a disorder distinguished by the presence of two or more personality states. Diagnosis is often difficult because that person could have many mental disorders that can affect the diagnoses. MPD is one of the most confusing psychiatric disorders because there is no clear treatment or a way to diagnosis it. Multiple Personality Disorder is caused by many different factors like trauma as a child or extreme physical, sexual, or emotional abuse. Most of us have experienced daydreaming or forgetting what we were doing while doing a project or something like that.
Multiple Personality Disorder is determined by the presence of 2 or more split identities or personality states

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