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What is it?
Multiple Personality Disorder is when a person thinks, feels, and behaves in two different ways. The two personalities come together at unexpectedly different times. The new personality is the same everytime. So if you ever met someone with Multiple Personality Disorder you would never know that they had another personality. Multiple Personality Disorder is when a person becomes separated from reality. Also, a lot of people confuse MPD with schizophrenia.
Multiple Personality Disorder, also know as Dissociative Identity Disorder, is a mental process which disassociates a person from their surroundings, thoughts, feelings, actions or sense of identity. For example, a person may disassociate the memory of a ongoing trauma during a traumatic experience.
MPD is the existence within a person, the existence of one other or more personalities. Those other personalities are refereed to as 'alters'. Multiples and as well as those who deal with them, come to recognize alters as completely separate people, rather than just different aspects of the same person. The different personalities usually have different names, ages, genders, likes and dislikes, and even illness, or else they have none at all. They also either have some special abilities or not.
The alter's job is to protect the host personality from the memory of the trauma. Multiples produce typical types of alters like:
-A depressed, exhausted host.
-A strong, angry protector.
-A scared, hurt child.
-A helper.
-An internal prosecutor who blames one or more of the alters for the abuse they have endured. (Sometimes patterned or named after the actual abuser.)
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