Sunday, November 28, 2010

Multiple Personality Disorder

In this article, I have learned about what multiple personality disorder is, if it is real or not, and lastly the symptoms of it. "Dissociative identity disorder is characterized by the presence of two or more distinct or split identities or personality states that continually have power over the person's behavior" as it has been said in the article. Multiple personality disorder has different levels to it that i have read. The mildest level is to day dream and the most intense level is to separate himself from a harsh situation that the person can not deal with. In this article, i also have learned that Multiple personality disorder does exist even though it is puzzling for a trained expert to understand. Some of the signs of this sickness are "Depression, Suicidal tenancies, Sleep disorders, Anxiety, panic attacks, and phobias, as well as Alcohol and drug abuse, Compulsions and rituals, psychotic like symptoms, and Eating disorders". In my opinion, i think that the central point of this article mainly focused on the symptoms of this disorder as well as how it works. One reason why i think this is because the article had made this section more descriptive and had gone in more detail about the disease. I don't think that my reaction to this article was very astonishing because of the fact that I had already known about multiple personality disorder and several things about it. Even though my reaction to this article wasn't that exiting, I did learn some new things on this sickness. This information may influence my thoughts on different characters and how they change into someone else as traumatic actions take place.