Split personality is a mental disorder, expressed in a person of two persons at the same time. It leads to the destruction of the life of the subject, the appearance of violent disorders, up to accidents, suicides and crimes.
Since medicine is a split personality is called otherwise, it is worth remembering and its second name - dissociative identity disorder.
Split personality - causes
In today's world, the reasons for the split personality can be Online games, where people simply get accustomed to their characters. Experts believe that in recent years, gambling, along with Internet addiction are the main reasons for the increase in incidence. Split personality can be triggered by shocks - mental or physical trauma, accidents, death of loved ones. In addition, most often suffer from dissociative disorder people with a weak and weak-willed character, seeking subconscious protection for themselves.
Treatment of split personality symptoms
Split personality is almost always a patient's imbalance and loss of communication with the world around him. The people surrounding the patient can not understand him. Often he has a failure in memory, that is, he can not remember some events from life. The patient complains of insomnia, headaches, severe and frequent sweating. In addition, the ill person has no logic, inconsistency of actions takes place. A person can have a good mood, but after a while he will be in an unreasonable sadness. Feelings of them are contradictory and inconsistent, both within themselves and with surrounding things and events.
Symptoms of a split personality are the appearance of the second person, the realization of oneself as two different people. That is, a person in the same situation can behave differently and take completely opposite decisions, a different view of the same things. It depends on what personality is prevailing at the moment. A person, as it were, communicates with different people, is in two different dimensions, commits different actions.
Disease split personality
A researcher at the Institute of Psychiatry, Simon Reinders, together with colleagues decided to understand the question of whether the disease is a split personality, having scanned the brains of volunteers who are prone to fantasies and have this disorder. The subjects were divided into two groups and asked to recall unpleasant events from the past. The results confirmed that a split personality is a disease, since healthy people could not be so active even when they imagined that they had two persons. In addition, the dual personality arises only in adults who have suffered a trauma in their childhood.
Split personality - treatment
It is impossible to cure the split personality independently. Only a therapist can help a patient get rid of this ailment. To date, for the treatment of split personality, psychotherapy or clinical hypnosis is used, as well as medical treatment is provided. The whole process takes a very long time. Sometimes, patients are monitored even after the symptoms are eliminated.
Split personality and schizophrenia
Often, split personality and schizophrenia are confused, and many believe that this is the same thing. However, these are completely different diseases. Symptoms of a split personality are similar to schizophrenia and therefore
The main difference between a split personality and schizophrenia is that dissociative disorder is not congenital. This condition is caused, as a rule, by psychological trauma received in childhood. But there are some signs, similar for schizophrenia, and for a split personality. For example, hallucinations.
And so the split personality is a protective mechanism in the mind. The person decides that he is not he, and therefore the problems are solved by themselves. However, having noticed in the behavior of relatives or their own even a number of signs of this ailment, it is worth immediately contacting a specialist.