Multiple Personality Disorder or MPD is often confused with Schizophrenia. In fact what is known as dissociated identity disorder is basically the synonym for MPD. What comes with this common confusion is an extremely exaggerated picture of what could otherwise have been less of a menace than what it is made it out to be at present. And the treatment for schizophrenia also varies considerably from multiple personality disorder treatment. Here a few things you need to know about MPD and its treatment.
• MPD is mostly a result of continuous trauma oriented stress and even trauma resulting from past incidents of abuse or assault. What happens with the sedimentation of this stress is that the person who is affected tries to completely sever himself/herself from the memory of the incident and any association with it. As a result there are certain ‘others’ of him/her born in the process, who either disown the traumatic incident or are conscious of it in a totally different way than usual. These devices are primarily meant for coping with the traumatic state.
• MPD as common sense would tell us is a description of the ailment which results in the same person being inflicted with several different personalities. But this is not really the correct description of the concerned person. In reality the person with MPD might move from greater consciousness to lesser consciousness of the syndrome without having to completely shift their cultural characteristics. This is something which many film makers dealing with MPD do not know.
• There are various kinds of therapy of course which qualify as multiple personality disorder treatment. These include play therapy, art therapy, talk therapy and even hypnosis. Medication might not always be the best way to go about treating this disorder as there is nothing about the state of dissociation that is chemically motivated in the body. The ideal of the treatment is to get the ‘others’ in conversation with each other to maintain a certain contact with reality. But you also have to make sure that the affected person is far removed from the place of affectation that is the source of the abuse, etc.
• Some cases of MPD might require some sort of drug therapy for the treatment of some associated disorders like schizophrenia and depression. But in case the concerned person has a disturbed sense of time, timely medication might be difficult to continue and there are possibilities that the person might overdose on them.
• Therapy of course takes its own time and it requires even more time when the concerned person has a case of prolonged trauma. It can in fact take ages for the cure to come about. But then the only way to make sure that the person is cured is to continue therapy as it is.
The method of psychotherapy can really take a long, long time and medication might just be needed from time to time. But 70% of the people who are administered the treatment have been known to be successfully cured. Continuous therapy brings the person and the therapist in close contact resulting in them coming forming a greater bond of trust leading to quick cure.
Inpatient treatment is again an effective way of forming this bond and it is also highly end oriented and leads to an everyday monitoring of the concerned person’s progress and thus ensuring that the progress is smooth and regular. This is thus a more advisable choice of treatment than the person visiting the physician on a weekly basis or even more than once a week. Memory therapy can also be a part of this or can be administered to the concerned person anyway.