What is the pathophysiology of multiple personality disorder?

Answer 1

I'm not sure who answered this question, but the symptoms they described below are actually for schizophrenia, not multiple personality disorder. There is a big difference. if you look it up on webmd.com you can find out pretty much anything you need to know about it. As mentioned above, the below text doesn't answer your question at all, so for the sake of keeping things simple I'll use strike-through just in case the information is relevant elsewhere.

* Hallucinations (Most ofter hearing voices in head)

* Delusions (Often of bizarre nature)

* Disorganized thinking or speech

* A pattern of emotional difficulty

* Lack of response or motivation

* Paranoia

* Social Detachment

In one uncommon subtype, the person may be:

* Largely mute,

* Remain motionless in bizarre postures

* Exhibit purposeless agitation

(However, be aware these are also signs of Catatonic behavior)

Answer 2

There is significant debate in the psychiatric community if MPD is a real mental illness or is created by inappropriate treatment methods used by the doctors that specialize in treating it.