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Identity Disorder (DID) was first acknowledged in the 1700's
but was not understood so therefore it was forgotten. Many
cases show up in medical records through the years, but in
1905, Dr. Morton Prince wrote a book about MPD that is a
foundation for the disease. A few years after it was
published Sigmund Freud dismissed the affliction and this
dropped it from being discussed at any credible mental
health meetings. Since then the disorder has been overlooked
and misdiagnosed as either schizophrenia or psychosis. Many
in the medical profession did not believe that a person
could unknowingly have more than one personality or person
inside one body, even after the in the 1950's Three Faces of
Eve was published by two psychiatrist. In 1993, records
showed that three to five thousand patients were being
treated for MPD compared to the hundred cases reported ten
years earlier. There is still as increase in the number of
cases being reported as the scientific community learns more
and more about the disease and the public is becoming more
and more aware of this mental disorder. There are still many
questions left unanswered about the disease, like "Is it
. . .
than Regina. Although, in a normal person, he/she
remembers when their subpersonality takes over, but in a MPD
patient, the personality disconnects from the host that the
host can not remember what happens.
Nashville, TN:Oliver- Nelson Books, 17-19, 73-78, 80-83,
87-88, 90-91, 99, 105-106, 181-198, 208-213.
Awareness is the key, not only awareness of MPD but of child
abuse, if child abuse is stopped MPD will not be a problem. The personalities are not being
made to disappear but to become one. They do not seem that different from normal
people, and many do not even know they have the disorder. Research is
continuing to be done on this disorder. Other types of abuse are emotional
and psychological abuse by a parent. In one of Clark's cases, Veronica,
one of the personalities of her patient Regina, showed up
for the weekly appointment instead of Regina (note that it
really was Regina, but she was a different identity). No matter how bad the abuse
was and how many different personalities are present; a MPD
patient can be cured. Godiva was always putting Carla in sticky
situations like Godiva would pick up men at bars and bring
them home or go home with them.
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