A Dissociative Mind
People go through hardships every single day in their life. When no one is around to protect them they have no other choice besides to stand up for themselves. Every person is different in the way they cope with things. Some people cope with life in different ways such as eating, exercising, while some may make their mind wander to different places. When people make their minds believe that they are in a different place or situation it is called dissociation. According to BehaveNet, dissociative identity disorder is an “alteration of two or more distinct personality states” (1995 p. 1). Dissociative identity disorder is rare among the rest of the dissociative disorders and one that is commonly missed diagnosed.
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Instead of the man getting up and doing it himself, he threw his keys to Charlie and made a rude comment. Since the personality of Charlie does not confront people, he did as he was told. As Charlie walks towards the car there is a noticeable difference about him. He begins to walk with a harder step, more of a rough look on his face, and becomes very blunt as he walks by people. It becomes obvious that this was a different personality since he drives the car right through the front window of the barber where his friends remained talking. It was clear that the personality of Hank was the one that was driving the car and caused such a scene. Later on in the movie when the personality of Charlie was present, he was asked about the incident. Charlie sat there confused and had no recollection of what had recently occurred. Another major symptom of DID. A person diagnosed with DID has “memory gaps” (Nevid et al., p.202); a period of time where the person is unable to recall certain events that occurred in that time …show more content…
Hank would come out whenever and Charlie had no control. Hank would cause trouble around town. Charlie would be present one second and then Hank would come out and cause major problems. An example of this would be when Charlie and another character were out to eat. One second it was Charlie who was all quite and nice and then Hank would appear. Hank made very rude comments to the waiter who became very surprised with what he said. The waiter fought back and it ended up in a fight in the restaurant. Hank ended up getting kicked out of the restaurant. Once the personality of Charlie was back, he was not able to recall anything that happened. He was shocked when he was told about what happened and what he said. Charlie did not believe that he was the one that said such things. No recollection of events that occurred is a clear symptom of DID. Since Charlie was unable to recall certain events he was eventually fired from the police station. His boss claimed that he was a liability. The fact that Charlie could not explain why these certain events occurred they could not handle having him on the
Before Charlie had the operation preformed on him, he had friends at the bakery he worked at. They were not really his friends because they always made jokes about Charlie, but he was not smart enough to realize it. As he gets smarter he loses his friends because they think he is just trying to act smart.
Dissociative Identity Disorder is a person who experiences two or more distinct personalities that takes controls of the individual. The individual may or may not be aware of their alternate personalities. Each personality is completely different; they can have different likes and dislikes, and they can have different prescriptions. Many people who have this disorder have experienced severe childhood trauma. This disorder is a controversial topic around the world for many reasons. The controversial argument is many do not believe the disorder exists. It is argued that there are no physical evidences as to this disorder existing. Although this is not true, it is still a controversial topic today. Dissociative
I see Charlie attempting desperately to act out of character. Adept at business he has shown ability, humility and perseverance. However, he seems to be out of touch with the manifested feelings of others his path has crossed.
Examples from the story are in abundance. On the other hand, I`ll just list one for each stage. The examples from the story are :( in chronological order)when people taunted Charlie, when his personality separated him from most boys in his town, when jobs would be even harder to find because of his sexual orientation, when he was shoved and called a “fag.”, when he was eventually murdered “unintentionally.”
... still thinking how long is it going to take for him to stop been punish from his past lifestyle. Still in the end Charlie showed his integrity because he could of flip off and start drinking again but he only had one drink as he promise himself to have every day, and because he wanted to prove to his sister in law that he is not the same person anymore. He tried all that he could to have his daughter to move with him
When Charlie was really young, his Aunt Helen sexually abused Charlie up until her death. This causes as whole new set of symptoms for Charlie, including the PTSD categories of intrusion and avoidance. Charlie experiences flashbacks (dissociative reactions) of the nights that his Aunt Helen would violate him, and what was happening during that time. He has intense distress in response to reminders of this, which is evident when Sam touches Charlie 's hand, and then he remembers how his Aunt Helen used to touch his hand the same way before she would sexually violate him. Charlie also experiences avoidance symptoms, because he works hard in trying to avoid internal reminders of the
Dissociative Identity Disorder, also known as Multiple Personality Disorder is a psychological disorder that can be caused by many things, but the most common cause is severe childhood trauma which is usually extreme, repetitive physical, sexual, or emotional abuse. A lot of people experience mild dissociation which includes daydreaming or getting momentarilly distracted while completing everyday tasks. Dissociative identity disorder is a severe form of dissociation. Seveer Dissociation causes a lack of connection in a person's thoughts, memories, feelings, actions, or sense of identity. Dissociative identity disorder is thought to stem from a combination of factors that may include trauma experienced by the person with the disorder. When a
Dissociative identity disorder, a condition that has plagued and altered the minds of those who were diagnosed for many years, represents the condition in which an individual displays multiple personalities that overpower his or her behavior around others and even alone. Such personalities or identities can have staggering differences between them even being characterized by a disparate gender, race, or age. One of the sides of them can even be animal-like and display feral qualities. Also, the disorder severs the connection between the victim’s sense of identity, emotions, actions, and even memories from their own consciousness. The cause for this is known to be a very traumatic experience that the person had gone through previously and fails to cope with it, thus they dissociate themselves from the memory in order to keep their mental state in one piece. All these results from the disorder do not begin to tell of the rest of the horrors that gnaw away at the affected human.
Dissociative disorders can affect someone’s memory and make someone forget some of the important things in his or her life suck as their own identity. “When a dissociative identity disorder comes in to a person life it normally can make that person seem very distant and never aware of the other people in their lives.” (Diseases; 1) Which means that this person has absolutely no socials life. This person, when having a traumatic childhood, he or she can establish two or more different sets of personality. As an adult, this person may see an object that triggers the other personalities to come out; meanwhile, attempt to take control over the body.1a. SV; conj. adv, SV.) This other personality can be a different gender and he or she will most likely go by a different name. When this personality is in play the person’s original personality will have no memory of what the other being inside of him or her may have done.
Firstly, Charlie's realizes that his co-workers aren't his true friends after all. When Joe Carp and Frank Reilly take him to a house party, they made him get drunk and started laughing at the way he was doing the dancing steps. Joe Carp says, "I ain't laughed so much since we sent him around the corner to see if it was raining that night we ditched him at Halloran's" (41), Charlie recalls his past memory of him being it and not finding his friends who also ditched him and immediately realizes that Joe Carp was relating to the same situation. Charlie felt ashamed and back-stabbed when he realized that he had no friends and that his co-workers use to have him around for their pure entertainment. It's after the operation, that he finds out he has no real friends, and in result feels lonely. Next, Charlie unwillingly had to leave his job from the bakery where he worked for more than fifteen years. Mr. Donner treated him as his son and took care of him, but even he had noticed an unusual behavior in Charlie, lately. Mr. Donner hesitatingly said, "But something happened to you, and I don't understand what it means... Charlie, I got to let you go" (104), Charlie couldn't believe it and kept denying the fact that he had been fired. The bakery and all the workers inside it were his family, and the increase of intelligence had ...
Dissociative identity disorder, previously known as multiple personality disorder, is a disorder in which an individual has the presence of one or more personality states. These personality states each have their own distinct names, attitudes, identities and self-images within an individual’s conscious awareness. At least two of the personalities take control of the affected person’s behavior. Dissociation is defined as the disruption of the normal integrative process of consciousness, perception, memory and identity, which define selfhood (Pias, 2009). Symptoms of dissociation includes amnesia, depersonalization, identity confusion, age regression, hearing internal voices, and identity alteration (). Dissociative identity disorder is believed to result from the splitting of conscious awareness and control of ones thoughts, feelings, memories and mental components as a response to traumatic experiences that was unacceptable to the individual. It indicates a broken personality with the absence of a clear and comprehensive identity (Pias, 2006).
Living a normal life seems to be everyone’s ultimate lifestyle, but there are some people that cannot control what happens in their lives because it can be a social, behavioral, or environmental effect that can troublesome their daily tasks of life. There are so many disorders that can cause issues for an individual’s well-being, and one disorder is the dissociative identity disorder (DID). According to Zimbarodo (2009), “Dissociative identity disorder is a complicated, long-lasting posttraumatic disorder, which was previously called multiple personality disorder” (p. 550). In some cultures, DID is explain by the presence of demon or spirit possessions, but in the Western society, this disorder has been vindicated to seek serious attention and is now included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fifth edition (Kluft, 2005, p. 635).
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder? A proper explanation of DID necessitates a dissection of the name itself. Dissociation is “a mental process, which produces a lack of connection in a person's thoughts, memories, feelings, actions, or sense of identity.”1 In other words, there is a disruption in the way in which these usually integrated functions communicate. Daydreaming, highway hypnosis, or “getting lost” in a book or movie are all examples of very mild dissociation.
According to Barlow, Durand & Stewart (2012), Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) is one of several dissociative disorders in which a person experiences involve detachment or depersonalization. They go on to explain that people with DID ha...
Dissociative Identity Disorder (commonly know as Multiple Personality Disorder) is one of the most unexplored disorders and most debated psychiatric disorder. Through this essay you will become more knowledgeable about what the disorder really is; what qualifies you as having this disorder, what are the prognosis to DID, and what are risks for having this disorder? You will also learn about the treatment for Dissociative Identity Disorder; what kind of therapy do they need or the medicine they should have to help control the disorder. At the end of this paper you will then learn about current research and what the future holds for Dissociative Identity Disorder.