Dissociative Identity Disorder Madison Detwiler Psychology 1113-03 Oklahoma State University Fall 2015 Dissociative Identity Disorder There are many different personality disorders in the world today. Personality disorders are “enduring patterns of thinking, feeling, or relating to others or controlling impulses that deviate from cultural expectations and cause distress or impaired functioning” (CITE BOOK). A type of this disorder is called Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). This disorder falls under the category of Dissociative Disorders in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manuel of Mental Disorders 5th Edition, also known as the DSM-V. DID is a severe form of dissociation, such as when someone is daydreaming but they are caught …show more content…
He had 20 different personalities, all varying quite differently. John does not remember much from his childhood, but in his therapy sessions he would switch to his other personalities and in those he would recollect the abuse he had when he was a child. He would switch to a ten year old boy, named Eduardo, who could remember being pushed down the stairs, Hans who was abused with electricity, Eugene who had no emotions or could not feel pain but could explain more in depth the abuse he went through. He even had a personality for all the sexual abuse, yet John, has no memory of any of this himself. Because of the different personalities, John struggled with a normal life. He was married and divorced three times and then lived alone, he at one point had a drinking problem, and he has struggled with depression. People thought he was “different” and could not keep up with the different people living inside of him. The symptoms John had are fairly normal for this disorder. All of his “alters” have a different name and age and they all remember a different piece of John’s childhood. Each alter helps piece together John’s past that he chooses not to remember. Out of all the cases in the video, each person has over ten different alters, one of them always being in the state of a child. They all have gone through a traumatic experience when they were children that has made them the way they are …show more content…
There are two sides to this debate: one is that psychiatrists bring this upon their patient making them believe they have this disorder when they truly do not, and the other side being that people believe it is all together fake. Dr. Paul McHugh former head of psychiatry at John Hopkins believes “all DID cases are artificial productions provoked by the attention doctors and others give them and that people are persuaded that they have multiple personalities embedded within them.” For those who believe that this disorder is not real, find it hard to understand why this disorder could be in the DSM-V. In the mid 1950’s two movies came out that related to DID and caused a lot of controversial dispute about how people thought they had this disorder because they believed they had similar symptoms. After this movie released, the amount of people who claimed they had this disorder skyrocketed. I believe that this disorder is real for the people who really went through a traumatic experience when they were a child. For those who watched a movie with this disorder and after watching then self-diagnose themselves with it because they think they have similar symptoms do not really have this disorder. I think it is hard to really know for sure who has it or not, but I believe there are some real cases out
His parents' marriage was fraught with tension, and they eventually divorced when he was a teenager. He struggled with feelings of loneliness and isolation, often retreating into a fantasy world where he had complete control over others. As he grew older, these fantasies became more violent and sadistic. While there is no single cause for Dahmer's crimes, it is clear that he suffered from severe mental illness. In addition to his diagnoses of borderline personality disorder and schizophrenia, he also exhibited symptoms of dissociative identity disorder (DID), which can cause people to feel disconnected from their emotions or surroundings.
Gladwell and viewers would agree that a teen that writes something like that in their journal they have something wrong with them. Something that wasn't right in his years that happen to him that made him this way. Gladwell thinks he might have been abused by a person in his childhood years and that could be the reason John could be feeling this
Johnny started using drugs and alcohol to cope with the long hours on the road and probably performance anxiety. I also believe that Johnny was suffering from survivor’s guilt, due to the death of his brother and that his father blames him for the death. Add that all up and you have a ticking time bomb ready to go off. I believe the diagnosis
John’s father was still abusive to him, despite the growth and age jump. His father was also abusive to his mother, and his two sisters as well. At the age of 11, he developed a blood clot in his brain, caused by a a swing hitting him in the head. Nobody would ever know about this blood clot until five years later when the blood clot was discovered at a hospital nearby. The blood clot caused Gacy to have several blackouts and he could not recall events that had happened (Bell 4).
The night of Kathy’s so-called murder, John begins doing crazy things and acting strange. For example, he poured boiling hot water during his crazy night terror. John appears to be a different man to other’s in the town because his anger and rage seems to have disappeared with his loving
We also know that the character’s name is John based on the song he sang. He tells us about his journey and what he goes through as a character during this time in the
In other words, John is Schizophrenic. Schizophrenia is a severe brain disorder in which people interpret reality abnormally. Schizophrenia may result in some combination of hallucinations, delusions, and extremely disordered thinking and behavior. ( Mayoclinic.org). Schizophrenia is displayed when John says “Meantime the hellish tattoo of the heart increased.”
John demonstrates an violent, evil man during the end of the
John has made vast changes in the way he considers himself towards others and how he values himself towards the other people in
They continued a flawed and sad relationship for many years past the point of recovery and ultimately paid the price for it with Kathy’s suicide. Issues such as fear and dishonesty both consciously and unconsciously began and persisted from the beginning to the end. John developed mental issues after his father committed suicide, one of the results of these issues was that John has metaphorical mirrors in his head that deflect and protect him from the truth (65-66). When undesirable things happen in his life, he tried to bury and
As a result, he suffered from PTSD. In the article, “Madness, Mystery, Reality and Illusion,” Liam Clarke argue that there is a connection between the way magic captures an audience and psychiatric patients, in the sense that they are transported to another world. John is trying to preserve his mind, the same way how he felt when he did magic is the way he wants to feel now. John has his illusion of being innocent and naïve about everything. His wife, Kathy Wade is missing and there is the misery of what happened to her.
“And it was then, listening, that they would feel the trapdoor open, and they’d be falling into that emptiness where all the dreams used to be. They tried to hide it, though…” “an enormous white mountain he had been climbing all his life, and now he watched it come rushing down on him, all that disgrace” John’s mother was quoted saying “But sometimes I feel like his father made him feel-oh, made him feel-oh-maybe overweight” Anthony L. Carbo was quoted saying “He didn’t talk much. Even his wife, I don’t think she knew the first damn thing about…well, about any of it. That man just kept everything buried. Richard Thinbill, in a testimony stated, “We called him Sorcerer.
To me, John has so many qualities that make it very hard to distinguish whether he is good or not. The one thing that he is, for certain, is morally broken. As a person, he holds himself in high regard, and the rest of the town seems to as well. His most valuable possession is his
Dissociative Identity Disorder, more commonly known as Multiple Personality Disorder, is a depersonalization episode. Two percent of adults in the United States will experience an episode of DID, but only two percent experience chronic episodes. DID often follows a harrowing event such as near-death experience, rape, abuse, or military combat. A common coping skill seen in children after abuse, it can often affect adults in their daily lives. Dissociation versus Dissociative Identity Disorder
John started to involve himself in the works of the devil and training to become a satanic cult