Myself Movie Analysis

Multiple personality disorder was first thought that demons possessed people. It was not until later that some doctors realized that people could have different functioning personalities. A woman in a film from the 1920’s had a personality of a man who did not was to wear women’s clothes as well as a child who always had temper tantrums.
The patient in the film is a woman named Gretchen. She has had psychiatric problems her whole life and wasn’t diagnosed with multiple personality disorder until just recently. When she is feeling emotionally distressed, she switches to an aggressive personality that is more emotionally stable. While in the more aggressive personality, “Myself” talks about Gretchen as if she is another person and not herself. As other personalities take control over Gretchen’s body, she loses consciousness and has no memory of what the other personalities experience. From what seems like a side effect of Gretchen’s disorder, a vacuum …show more content…
He is a police officer who can use his different personalities for different skill sets when needed. He is always aware of what his other personalities are doing. While pursuing a vehicle, John switched to a personality that is good at driving in high speed chases then made a switch back to John to speak to the driver of the truck. John began seeing a therapist and soon had more personalities emerge. They found out that he was abused as a child just like Gretchen. It seems like those with this disorder all dealt with some kind of abuse as a child, so they use the other personalities to block out those horrible memories. A personality named Edward emerges who remembers being shoved down a staircase. He says he has always been aware of the voices in his head. He always thought they were natural. He has one personality that feels no emotions because his abusers worked off of his pain and distress so he would switch to Eugene who showed no