Dissociative Identity Disorder

             Multiple Personality Disorder (Dissociative Identity Disorder) is the
             existence within a person of two or more distinct personalities. The different
             personalities are referred to as "alters". Alters may have experienced a distinct
             personal history, self-image, and identity, including a separate name, as well as
             age. At least two of these personalities recurrently take control of the person's
             behavior. There are a few typical types of alters that they multiple would produce
             such as a depressed, exhausted host, a strong, angry protector, a scared, hurt
             child, a helper, and an internal persecutor who blames one or more of the alters
             for the abuse they have endured. Sometimes patterned or named after the actual
             Individuals most likely to develop MPD share several common factors.
             They have endured repetitive, and often life-threatening abuse during a
             developmental stage of childhood. The type of abuse can vary or be a
             combination of physical, extreme emotional, sexual or Satanic Ritual Abuse. How
             a multiple creates their own inner families is as individual as each person. Even
             though symptoms vary from person to person, there are some basic
             First one is voices. Multiples do hear voices, but are merely the
             personalities within, communicating with one another. Often times, the MPD is
             diagnosed as a schizophrenic due to "hear voices," but the multiple personality
             hears the voices inside their head in contrast to the schizophrenic which hears
             them from outside of themselves. Often a multiple before diagnosis will speak of
             noise or clatter inside making it difficult for them to concentrate. It is possible for
             the multiple to hear many distinct and separate voices, of all ages talking at the
             Another symptom is physical differences. Each alter within a multiple has
             their own history, personalities that are uni
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