Multiple Personality Disorders

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or if an extremely violent act has traumatized the person.
Many personality disorders like Multiple Personality Disorder lead to various social problems. According to psychologist, these traits usually arise when the individual is in early childhood, around the age of eight years old. Multiple Personality Disorder is able to happen by a means called Dissociation. In psychological terms Dissociation means " that a person mentally distances themselves from traumatic situations or emotional distress." By using Dissociation, a child can mentally remove themselves from frightening and physically painful experiences. For instance, if a young child is being physically or sexually abused by someone they have learned to love and trust, they can't comprehend why that person is hurting them in such a manor. The child's emotions are confused, feeling both pain and pleasure, and since the child is so young he or she doesn't know what to do. So the child goes somewhere safe inside ...

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