re: Multiple Personality Disorder- Real or Fake?

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It’s the only way to treat them. Within their communities.

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Long term
Locked
Community based staff

Option A = Proper facilities
Option B = Homeless on street

While I would hate to see a loved one locked up it is safer than a life on the street and self medication. Drugs and booze as the usual suspects in self medication and that is a dangerous mix.



Back to the OP.

I have witnessed firsthand different personalities in paranoid schizophrenic's where the one side is okay with medication and the other wants control to not be medicated (and trying to escape when in a locked facility). Like Nash in "A Beautiful Mind" they avoid the one thing that can help them....

Personality A : How do I get out of the hospital and go home
Me : Take the meds and work with the doctor and staff
Personality B : I am a CIA agent locked up here because I know too much

While outpatient and voluntary short term work for some there is still a segment where this will not work and that is when mental health by police or street person life takes over. Big cost to society but everybody's head get planted deep in the sand.



The one beauty of the south tho is getting workers with better empathy and people skills to staff facilities.