What are the symptoms of Multiple Personality Disorder?!

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Multiple personality disorder is now known as 'Dissociative Identity Disorder'. Most of us have experienced mild dissociation, which is like daydreaming or getting lost in the moment while working on a project. However, dissociative identity disorder is a severe form of dissociation, a mental process, which produces a lack of connection in a person's thoughts, memories, feelings, actions, or sense of identity. Dissociative identity disorder is thought to stem from trauma experienced by the person with the disorder. The dissociative aspect is thought to be a coping mechanism -- the person literally dissociates himself from a situation or experience that's too violent, traumatic, or painful to assimilate with his conscious self. Despite what you may have seen in media (films, books etc), it is a rare condition and those that are actually diagnosed tend to be in the US, there are various trains of thought why this is the case. The most common thought is that mental health conditions as a whole are over diagnosed in the US compared to other western countries.

Signs And Symptoms Of Multiple Personality Disorder

Common Symptoms

Amnesia
Amnesia is one of the most common symptoms of multiple personality disorder. In this, a patient forgets everything that happened in their lives over an extended period of time, such as he/she might completely forget his/her childhood. On other occasions, the patient forgets what had happened with him/her in a particular period of time.

Depersonalization
It is a multiple personality disorder in which a patient feels that his/her body is unreal and is constantly changing or dissolving. In this case, the patient feels that he/she is out of the body and is a watching a movie of himself. Known as the trances or fugue states, the patient faces 'out of body experiences'.

Derealization
Falsification or derealization is also one of the most common symptoms of MPD. A patient in this case believes that thewalls, buildings, or other stable objects are changing in shape, size or color. They may also fail to recognize closerelatives or friends. The external environment is unreal or illusory for a MPD patient.

Identity Disturbances
Since the patient having MPD has many alters, he/she may or may not face identity crisis. In such a case, the continuous change from the host personality to alters, makes the patient face identity disturbances.

Other Symptoms

* Multiple mannerisms, attitudes and beliefs that are dissimilar to each other
* Headaches
* Body pains
* Distortion or loss of subjective time
* Depression
* Depression
* Mood swings
* Suicidal tendencies
* Compulsions and rituals
* Phobias
* Flashbacks or intrusive memories
* Panic attacks
* Reactions to stimuli or "triggers"
* Addictive behavior, including alcohol or drugs
* Psychotic-like symptoms, including auditory and visual hallucinations
* Eating disorders
* Sleep disorders (insomnia, night terrors, and sleep walking)

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Be American is the most common criteria

Very rare to see this condition outside of the USA.

Says a lot I think