Multiple+Personality+Disorder

Aleisha Lerma Cynthia Smalling Miranda Wolf

P. 6 English (Research of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

Term: Multiple Personality Disorder, also known as Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), is a conflict in the mind that will disable a person with two or more distinctive personalities and will control behavior at certain times.

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 Aim: A person with a multiple personality disorder will have a hard time accomplishing certain titles during their life because their disorder may change the way the person can communicate and act toward others. A person will have trouble remembering or have no memory at all of the events that take place during a personality change and will face challenges with losing track of time. A person with multiple personality disorder will have mental changes such as changes in speech, etiquette, thoughts and a change of gender orientation. According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, "The alters may even differ in 'physical' properties such as allergies, right-or-left handedness, or the need for eyeglass prescriptions. These differences between alters are often quite striking". (1). People with this disorder will often have very clear and obvious changes to the point where most people will notice.

Audience:

Multiple personality disorders sprouts from relentless childhood abuse (continual sexual, physical, and emotional mistreatment), so the audience is the people who have the disorder and the people who are exposed to the people with the disorder. In The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde The author writes,“I felt younger, lighter, happier in body; within I was conscious of a heady recklessness, a current of disordered sensual images running like a millrace in my fancy, a solution of the bonds of obligation, an unknown but not an innocent freedom of the soul.” (Stevenson 51). The one affected by the disorder may not be aware it is even happening to them. They could have a severe disorder, and would only know that they feel uncomfortable for the most of the time.



Historical: The public at the time of the book as well as today has a mixed image of people with multiple personality disorders. One of the most well know people with this disorder would be Princess Diana, leader of a country. The princess, made famous from her royal heredity, is known to have a personality disorder that has troubled her for most of her life, starting from when she was young. As a child, the divorce of her parents was very tramatic and caused her much sorrow. Many people noticed this, “During Diana's lifetime, someone close to Prince Charles consulted both a psychiatrist and a psychologist, who agreed that her behavior ‘fit the description of the borderline personality in quite extraordinary detail’” (psychiatry online 1). This caused her great stress and problems with the media while she did not specifically know that she technically had the disorder. <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;"> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;"> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">Cultural: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The victims of Multiple Personality Disorder are accepted into today’s society because people recognize how the disorder affects the victims of the disorder. A well known author states, “I'm so good at beginnings, but in the end I always seem to destroy everything, including myself” (Gelder). Although Gelder does not have multiple personality disorder, the quote she states represents the people who have multiple personality disorder. In this case she represents the society and is accepting to the people with the disorder. Overall, today’s society is accepting towards people with multiple personality disorders.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">MLA WORKS CITED

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">"Diana in Search of Herself: Portrait of a Troubled Princess." Psychiatry Online. N.p.. Web. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">26 Jul 2013. http://ps.psychiatryonline.org/article.aspx?articleID=84141. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">"Mental Health Center." WebMD. N.p.. Web. 25 Jul 2013. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> webmd.com/mental-health/dissociative-identity-disorder-multiple-personality- <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> disorder.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">"Dissociative Identity Disorder." NAMI. N.p.. Web. 26 Jul 2013. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> nami.org/Content/ContentGroups/Helpline1/Dissociative_Identity_Disorder_(formerly_Multiple_Personality_Disorder).ht <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> m.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">"NHS Choice." Personality Disorder- Definition. N.p.. Web. 25 Jul 2013. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> nhs.uk/Conditions/Personality-disorder/Pages/Definition.asp&xgt;.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Gelder, Kiera Van. "quotes about borderline personality disorders." goodreads. N.p.. Web. 26 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> July 2013. goodreads.com/quotes/tag/borderline-personality-disorder>.