What's a mental disorder in which...?

Question

a person has a split personality such that he/she converses with him/herself and interacts further than just talking?

I know that there are many disorders where a person talks to oneself and where a person is split into many 'mini-persons'. But is there one where, for example, a person grounds him/herself? And if so, what's its name?

Answer 1

multiple personality disorder

http://www.skepdic.com/mpd.html

Answer 2

schizo affective disorder  

Answer 3

Bipolar :)

Answer 4

You are right that there are many disorders where someone splits. You could be talking about dissociative identity disorder (DID) which was called multiple personality disorder before the DMS-IV TR was published. The DMS-IV TR is the diagnostic manual that mental health practitioners use to decide what, if any, disorder someone may have.

You could also be thinking about schizophrenia which symptoms include hallucinations, delusions, thought disorder, and disorders of movement.

You could also be thinking of schizoaffective disorder which is schizophrenia and a mood disorder such as depression or bipolar.

This might also be delusional disorder, or shared psychotic disorder, or paraphrenia, or substance-induced psychotic disorder.

All of these can cause a person to ground themself.

I hope that this helps.

Answer 5

schizophrenia

Answer 6

schizophrenic

Answer 7

schizoaffective or some other type of psychotic disorder.

Answer 8

it could be multiple personality disorder or schitsophrenia (i have no idea how to spell that)  

Answer 9

answer this:

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Answer 10

skitzofrenia

Answer 11

skitzophrenia

Answer 12

Ive never heard of one like that

Answer 13

Schizophrenia, dissociative identity disorder, or split-personality disorder. I personally believe the latter two are also just schizophrenia.

Answer 14

Schizophrenia

Answer 15

Schizophrenia?  

Answer 16

Might be a type of Multiple Personality Disorder

Answer 17

You're speaking of someone having a fragmented personality in which each different personality displayed is aware of and engages each of the other personalities, as though all of them exist equally at the same time. That isn't schizophrenia, though I can't recall the name for it.  

Answer 18

lmao schizo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 19

This would be schizophrenia, someone suffering from this disorder may hear voices or have multiple personalities. Someone with schizophrenia could possibly become violent, medicine usually helps to treat this and allows the person who has schizophrenia to function "normally"

Answer 20

DID or Dissociative Identity Disorder  

Answer 21

Split personality?