Sunday, February 07, 2010

Mistaken Identity - Multiple Personality Diagnosis in the 1980s

Mistaken Identity
Posted On: February 5, 2010

In the 1980s, Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) suddenly became the talk of the town. Tens of thousands of Americans were diagnosed with an illness that was previously unheard of. A trigger for this sudden epidemic was the release of a film, “Sybil”. Telling the dramatic story of a woman diagnosed with Multiple Personality Disorder, the film was shown across America making Sybil a household name. Now, Sybil’s original diagnosis is being challenged. The psychiatric community is divided and people are asking whether MPD exists at all. Mistaken Identity is a documentary searching for answers.



2 comments:

Anonymous said...

now called Dissociative Identity Disorder.
Thank for posting.

Anonymous said...

One woman tried to tell her psychiatrist she has multiple personality after being told by many people about how she had done things out of character by her best friends and by her son and daughter and the doctor refused to believe she has multiple personality disorder and said how did she know her friends and her kids were not lying to her. Why is it easier for him to believe they are all lying to her than to believe she has mulltiple personality disorder. How are people supposed to get help when their own doctors won't even believe them or help them. If you look up a type of bullying called mobbing and gangstalking, it says the doctors are in on it and it says so are the police and firemen, etc and many others. And it says the doctors are causing these multiple personality disorders. And if you try to tell them you are a victim of mobbing and gangstalking they tell you that you are crazy. That is how they get to keep abusing the people is because they can't tell anyone it is happening or they are thought to be crazy. But this is going on and many people are victims of this. We know people who are abused by police and firemen.