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Multiple Personality Disorder
Have you ever heard the expression, "God, It's like she has a multiple personality?" That is an expression that has been heard often. The truth of the matter is that multiple personality, now known as Dissociative Identity Disorder is a very serious disabling illness. In fact, 3-4% of the U.S. population is hospitalized for Dissociative Identity Disorder every year.
Dissociative Identity Disorder is when a person has more than one personality. He/She have two or more separate identities, hobbies, likes, dislikes and totally different lives. "The presence of two or more distinct identities or personality states (each with its own relatively enduring pattern of perceiving, relating to, and thinking about environment and self), DID is characterized by a set of one or more distinct identities that a person believes to exist within themselves."(Grohol, 2003) These identities or personalities switch and take control over the other and generally......

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