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| comment | | "parent_author":"",<br>"parent_permlink":"health",<br>"author":"classic717",<br>"permlink":"multiple-personality-disorder",<br>"title":"MULTIPLE PERSONALITY DISORDER",<br>"body":"I always dismissed this psychological disorder as another western categorization of some sort till I came across Sidney Sheldon's Tell Me Your Dreams recently and I started to research.\nMPD is a mental disorder characterized by the presence of two or more personalities in a body,<br>of which one always has the dominant control.\nMPD is hypothesized to be caused by severe childhood trauma that creates a mental split or \"dissociation\" as a defense against that trauma. The different personalities that occur are called alters.\nThese different parts develop separately and in adulthood help the sufferer deal with stress by expressing resentment or help calm the main personality. Each patient possesses two or more selves and each identity has it's own mood,<br> memories,<br> behaviors,<br> and experiences.\nIn Sidney's Tell Me Your Dreams,<br> Ashley Patterson was sexually abused by her father from the age of 6 - 8. This trauma caused the creation of Toni Prescott,<br> a stronger alter who helped Ashley pull through that trauma and 'protected' her in the future by killing 5 men in a span of 12 years whom she had sex with.\nAshley was always blanking out for hours at which time Toni Prescott,<br> a totally different personality with her own memories takes over and maims these men leaving her finger prints and DNA all over the place,<br>without the knowledge of Ashley. Toni knew Ashley but Ashley didn't have an idea of who Toni,<br> her English born alter was.\nAshley was eventually arrested and was charged with first degree murder and was going to be sentenced to death. However,<br> her lawyer was able to prove that Ashley had no idea of these crimes since she suffered from MPD. It was a tough case but she was eventually discharged and it took almost a decade to heal her,<br> and making the alters disappear.\nThis book got me thinking and researching. This in Africa would be a clear case of being possessed by the devil himself. It is possible that people who suffer from MPD live amongst us,<br> good people who suddenly commit unprintable crimes without any motive,<br> people we love,<br> trust and can vouch for who suddenly go rogue.\nIt is estimated that 100,<br>000 Nigerians live with this order. It's not always the devil. Africans,<br> it's high time we started asking questions that matter and start looking beyond religious piety.\nP.S: MPD is an illness that has been heavily criticized and many believe that there's no such thing as that,<br> but somehow I believe it exists and it is not the devil possessing anyone.\nWhat's your take?",<br>"json_metadata":" \"tags\":[\"health\",<br>\"finding\",<br>\"cure\",<br>\"stach\",<br>\"nigeria\" ,<br>\"app\":\"steemit\/0.1\",<br>\"format\":\"markdown\" " | | vote | "voter":"classic717",
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