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This is the Conversation Forum for Schizophrenia and 'Split Personality' << Advice and/or Help The opposite view-point: DID just another variant of schizophrenia >> Subject: MPS vs. split personality? Posted Oct 21, 2000 by Moonjack   Posting 1 I once a girl who said she was a diagnosed split personality, but did <i>not</i> have multiple personality disorder. She was split three ways (oddly enough, the two "other" pesonalities identified as male, not unusual considering she is bisexual anyway), but was generally aware of what each personality did. In fact, they sometimes actually held conversations with each other, and two of them (the two males) didn't get along well together. While sometimes one of the personalities would do something without the others knowing, as a general rule all three knew what the others were up to. Any thoughts? Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: MPS vs. split personality? Posted Oct 25, 2000 by M'niki - Patron Saint of Anonymous Artists This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 2 although you speek of split personalities, it is not that they are separate. The reason they develop is to deal with tough and stressful situations: they help another alter to deal with the situations. Maybe in this case the alters didn't develop all the way and kept in touch with the ego (the person) and eachother. It can happen that an alter does things that other alters don't approve off, because they 'think' it'll harm the person they are guarding.. MPS/DIS is a strange, difficult disease just like the mind/psyche in which the disease develops. The mind works in mysterious ways! About the male alters: men can be considered to be stronger and bigger than girls. To keep her head up in stressful situations, maybe your female friend developed male alters as she thought they would be more of a match against the stressor. Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: MPS vs. split personality? Posted Dec 13, 2001 by Lucinda (et al) - Dun Researchin' This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 3 A diagnosis of Dissasociative Identity Disorder requires some significant disassociation and memory lapses and such between the identities - as such it's possible to have a 'split personality' (or 'multiplicity' or 'be a multiple' or ...) without being DID. Seems like this could be the case with this girl... Subject: MPS vs. split personality? Posted Jul 29, 2007 by lunazerix This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 4 is there any way to deal with this condition or to minimize the intrusion from alts without seeing a doctor or taking drugs. Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: MPS vs. split personality? Posted Aug 9, 2007 by Lucinda (et al) - Dun Researchin' This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 5 Sure. Plenty of folks have either ceased to be multiple, or obtained a state in which their multiplicity is not a hinderance. I recommend reading Multiple Identities & False Memories: A Sociocognitive Perspective by Nicholas P Spanos. It has some interesting sections on multiplicity displays in history and other cultures, showing that it does not have to be a dysfunctional state. It also has information about the influences that make displays of multiplicity less frequent and less overt. Conversation list Most of the content on h2g2 is created by h2g2's Researchers, who are members of the public. The views expressed are theirs and unless specifically stated are not those of the BBC. The BBC is not responsible for the content of any external sites referenced. In the event that you consider anything on this page to be in breach of the site's House Rules, please click on the relevant button to alert our Moderation Team. Conversation list

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