What does it mean to have a personality disorder?

telegraph.co.uk By Linda Blair Personality consists of the well-established patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving that make up individual character. PD (Personality Disorder) is diagnosed when these patterns deviate markedly from the expectations of a particular culture in at least two of the following areas: our thoughts – that is, how we make sense of READ MORE

What Is Dissociative Personality Disorder? 5 Questions, Answered

bustle.com JR THORPE It’s a pretty familiar trope in Hollywood: somebody suffers from “multiple personalities,” gets into scrapes when one does something the other doesn’t know about, or, in the case of M. Night Shyamalan’s new flick Split, has over 20 separate “personalities” in the body of James McAvoy, all of which appear to be READ MORE

Dissociative identity disorder

http://tribune.com.pk/ By Zohaib Amjad Despite its rampancy, there is much too little known about Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) and how it could affect thousands of lives. The occurrence of DID — formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder — can be traced back to the early 16th Century. Since then, the disorder has frequently been toyed READ MORE