Defenitions.

[luwana.livejournal.com]

I think in my most recent comment people read some bits, skipped others, or just plain misread it.

I know MPD has been 'replaced' by DID in the US. That's what I was saying. Fact is they are completely different conditions, and the only reason MPD people are called DID in the US is because, as has been said, MPD 'no longer exists' over there, because they decided it was 'impossible'.

You might be MPD, but have been labelled DID for ease of diagnosis. That does not change that you are MPD, it only changes that you are not 'allowed' to be called MPD.

This is a problem that only occurs in the USA that I know of. When the proposals regarding DID/MPD in the US were presented to the rest of the world, it was decided that MPD did exist, and so while DID was added, MPD was never lost, as it has been in America.

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w00t, no more confusion! *does the dance of enlightenment*

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[tir-nan-og.livejournal.com]

Okay. Got it. I hadnt been considering things internationally when the discussion began.

[hurricanrana.livejournal.com]

i always say MPD. always have, always will. LOL

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

And so will we, when it's multiple personality disorder. And plain multiplicity or plurality when it's not. We only say DID when someone has been officially diagnosed with that condition.

Ultimately, we want to see changes in the DSM. We want the singlet doctors who came up with these monikers to acknowledge that more than one person per body is not in itself a mental illness, but in such a way that systems who feel it is wrong for them, and want medical help, can still get it.

I've been saying "ego-dystonic multiplicity", a la ego-dystonic homosexuality.

Thank you!

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

I'd change "you might be MPD" to "you might have multiple personalities" or "you might have multiple personality disorder", but other than that, this is precisely the point.

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Brief rantlet on "being MPD":

People are not their diagnoses. I think there's a tendency to substitute MPD for multiple. Other than doctors in hospitals who do tend to say "the spleen in room 238" and so on, it's as Shiu of sethrenn said: "If you get diagnosed as diabetic, you aren't a diabetes. You don't see anyone saying 'I'm a cancer,' 'I'm an AIDS,' 'I'm a sprained ankle,' or anything like that."

If we each did that for every diagnosis we had, I'd be an asthma, an astigmatism, and a former tuberculosis in addition to my extensive experience as an underemployed paralegal. I shall add it to my resume at once.

Johnny would like to know if it's chronic conditions only or can he be a very bad cold we had in the spring of 2002?

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[luwana.livejournal.com]

If you've been diagnosed DID and you're actually a functioning multiple, then your doctor is a screw up. If you /actually are disordered/ and are labelled DID, then you might be MPD. If that makes more sense, now that it is clarified? Sorry, I always seem to misphrase things. But I know what I meant :P

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[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

"If you /actually are disordered/ and are labelled DID, then you might be MPD."

Yes! Except we would say: Then you might have MPD.

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[ghostwalker.livejournal.com]