Multiple Personalities Do They

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the other personalities. A common misconception among the

general public is the confusion of MPD with the disease of

schizophrenia. Schizophrenics do NOT have distinct personalities,

rather, they have hallucinations of voices outside their heads.

Schizophrenia is caused by brain malfunctions and can be treated with

drugs, whereas suffers of MPD cannot because MPD is an almost purely

psychological disorder. MPD seems to be caused mainly by incredibly

violent and terrible childhood abuse. In fact, about 98% of MPD

sufferers were abused as children. The disorder also occurs between

three to nine times more in women than men, the person being abused

creates other personalities to handle the pain. In the case of a man

named Milligan, his father beat him and sexually abused him. Then he

forced the boy to dig his own grave, burying him alive with only a stove

pipe to breath through. Then the father urinated into the pipe onto the

boy's face. With that kind of ...

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This is why the person often hears voices

"inside his head" whereas the schizophrenic hears them from outside in

the world. Many people dispute the existence of multiple personalities.

They argue that such an idea is impossible and that the people are

simply making it up. However, I believe the opposite, and many people

share my opinion due to one study. Around 10 years ago a Dr. Putnam

conducted an experiment, whereby he hooked several MPD sufferers up to a

machine that measures brain waves. He then subjected each personality of

each person to a set of stimuli. Each personality reacted differently,

the difference was around the same as between two separate people. ...

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