Emma Young Multiple Personality Disorder

Multiple Personality Disorder is a lacking in mental capacity to deal with abuse and trauma at any age. A split happens in the brain in order to deal with a horrible past. It involves the disconnection of thoughts, behaviors, memories, surroundings, and identity. Many escape reality from the actions that people or things in their surroundings, that make the memories reoccur. They change and morph into someone else, an alter ego. It affects various age groups, mainly 15 to 25 years old. Countless people forget who they are, go on binges, and do not come back from them. They leave their family, and friends to ponder at their actions. Finally asking them, or making them seek out help. “It's one of the most well known and extreme psychological

” It can be highly overwhelming. Most who live with this cannot control what they do at times. Young also quotes Goodwin as saying, “As babies, you get born and you have a timeline that goes through your whole being. If you get fragmented, you do not get that timeline. ” The lack of emotion does not end when the abuse ends. It is carried with them, they never do away with the aching and the pain in their mind. “It is now become the way… the brain works” (Young 3). For example, when someone is a child of someone with DID, it is different. The child has to tread carefully, and from personal experience, they do not understand why, but they just have to. As that child grows older, they start to understand why they always have to watch what they say and everything they do. Anything and everything can set your parent into a whirlwind of scattered emotions and someone whom you have known is gone and someone else is in their place. Sometimes, some personalities are not even aware of the children they have. It is confusing to the child, the parent, and basically everyone else around them.

There are three major types of DID. With all, they are dissociative from their self and others. No one knows what is going on and they freak out and fight it off. Or, sometimes, they accept it and just do not get through the stages of grief. Most people are diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder. It is the most commonly

You hear voices. People talking to you, when no one is there but you. The other individualities inside of the subject's head may be the opposite gender, may even be a different age, younger or older. People with this disorder possibly have Dissociative Amnesia as well. They forget who they are, they have no memory of who they know or love. Everything basically is tossed out of the window, they have no recollection of anything.

Depersonalization-derealization Disorder is when the brain copes with trauma and situations of horrendous proportions, by detaching oneself from the mind and feeling as if they are standing beside themselves and looking through other's eyes or in a fog like state. This may last only moments, or can last many years. The person observes their actions through themselves, but as if they are watching it on a TV screen (“Dissociative”