Contents:
- Medical Video: How to Test for Borderline Personality Disorder
- What is an alter ego?
- Characteristics of multiple personalities that you can feel
- What's the difference with schizophrenia?
Medical Video: How to Test for Borderline Personality Disorder
Multiple personality is a psychological disorder in which a person has two (or more) personalities in themselves. Multiple personality or dissociative identity disorder is a psychological disorder in which the individual personality is divided, so that another personality appears. Personality signs are usually expressions of other personalities (alter ego) that arise because the main person cannot realize the things he wants to do.
What is an alter ego?
In Latin, the alter ego means "our other selves". Alter ego can also be said that there is one person who has more than one person, or has two or more personal at once. Sometimes sufferers do not know that they have multiple personality signs. Other personalities that exist in this one body sometimes also do not know each other, and even worse each of these individuals are mutually contradictory.
Alter ego is easier to control the body when your condition is declining. That is why people who have multiple personalities easily feel tired when the day changes, because indeed when the day changes are not passed by the same person.
Characteristics of multiple personalities that you can feel
- There are actions that sometimes you don't realize, and behaviors that are not the same each and tend to be opposite. For this sign, usually the closest person or your family can realize or complain about your changing attitude.
- Your physical pain when you move personality, this is not known for sure the reason. But, it is likely to be accompanied by fatigue or severe headaches when your personality changes.
- You will not remember the time clearly. That means you don't realize the time is running because you don't remember what you were doing. This can happen when you 'fall asleep' and your other characters will control your body.
- You will forget who and how you are. This sign clearly proves that you don't know what has happened to you. For example, after you wake up, sometimes you will find bruises, bleeding, or blisters in some parts of the body without knowing the cause. Sometimes you will also forget the position where you were first.
- Amnesia, you will not realize what is happening around you.
- Feel depressed, unhappy with yourself.
- Suddenly angry for no apparent reason, possibility alter ego angry with the main personality because they are considered unable to solve the problem or maybe vice versa. The initial person will rebel with alter ego who try to act negatively or control it.
- You often experience inner turmoil. Sometimes this makes you difficult to make decisions or tend to be wishy-washy.
- Become paranoid for things that you don't even know about the cause.
What's the difference with schizophrenia?
Schizophrenia is a mental illness that includes chronic psychosis. Schizophrenia sufferers usually often hear or see something that is not real (hallucinations) and believe something that is not based (delusion).
Contrary to the views of people, schizophrenics do not have multiple personalities. Delusion is a common psychotic symptom, and hallucinations that occur especially hear sounds experienced by people with schizophrenia. But there is one similarity between these two diseases, namely the risk of suicide is higher than other mental illnesses.
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