MPD Book Report

Throughout Robert’s visit, the narrator makes snide and insensitive remarks, despite his wife’s wishes. His misunderstanding of relationships and people is his visible flaw. It isn’t until the narrator

Suffering from alcoholism, a Jewish New Yorker with the name of Jimmy Lerner, subsequently joins a local support group called alcoholics anonymous, also known as A.A.. In pursuit to change his life in a positive manner he attends the classes every Monday night in his town of Danville. While at one of the meetings he meets a man named Dwayne Hassleman. After forming a bond, they exchange contact information which led to obsessive late night phone calls by Mr. Hassleman. Being aggravated, Lerner blocks his number, but notwithstanding encounters the man furthermore down the road after Lerner as well as his wife had agreed upon a divorce. Dwayne is a compulsive drug abuser, swarms Jimmy every day with some kind of attention. With a few

From the start where Robert was introduced in the story, Carver, the author, presented Robert to be very easy-going. The story showed that even though he had many problems in his past life he doesn’t seemed to be bothered by anything. For example, Carver states, “Goddamit it, his wife just died! Don’t you understand that? The man’s lost his wife!”(3) Yet he still continues with his life as normal person. He’s not a person who creates problems he just goes through and fixes them. Robert doesn’t mind anything at all nothing seems to annoy him or bother him. For instance, when Robert and Bub were watching TV, Bub

Multiple Personality Disorders (MPD), or what has been re-classified, Dissociative Idenitfy Disorder (DID), is a deliberating and frightening illness for the DID individual; as well as their friends and family. The meaning of DID (Dissoiative Idenity Disorder) usually means that a person has more than two self-states or identities, which often times appear like entirely different personalities. When one is under the control of one identity, the person usually is unable to remember some of the events, but is able to keep other personalities in control.

When Robert first arrives, things are a little awkward. The narrator isn’t sure what to say to Robert. As the night goes on they share many drinks, eat dinner, and even smoke some dope. Even the simple concept of smoking weed was one of the first real connections the narrator and Robert had. The narrator, seeing that Robert wanted to smoke some dope with him might have made him feel more comfortable and think Robert as just an normal, easy-going man. Once the wife falls asleep on the couch, we begin to see how Robert begins to open up the narrators eyes. Robert is an insightful and compassionate man who takes the time to truly listen to others , which helps him to “see” them better than he could with his eyes. These are qualities that the narrator is strongly lacking which start to inspire him to change. The only thing on television is a documentary about cathedrals the narrator wonders if Robert knows what a cathedral looks like so he asks him. Roberts asks him to describe the cathedral for him, because he can’t picture one. “I stared hard at the shot of the cathedral on the TV. How could I even begin to describe it? But say my life

The book A.D.H.D. Nation by Alan Schwarz takes us through the history of A.D.H.D. and shows us through stories and facts, the dangers of misdiagnosis and the abuse of A.D.H.D. medication. The book starts out with the start of medication for children with A.D.H.D. in Dr. Charles Bradley’s children’s hospital. Opened in 1931 the Emma Pendleton Bradley Home located in Providence, Rhode Island, opened their doors to the children that nobody wanted. The hospital was full of toddlers and teens who drove their parents mad with their uncontrollable behavior. It was here that Dr. Bradley created the first form of A.D.H.D. medication. He a created a small, ten milligram tablet in an attempt to ease the children’s headaches. He gave thirty children these

As they start to catch up on lost time, Tommy begins bringing up the past to his father about how he was a drunk and forgot all about him and his mother. He does everything in his power to make his father feel guilty. Tommy notices the picture of Brendan and his family on a dresser and Paddy begins to tell him about his life.. Tommy remains silent revealing that he’s not interested in anything having to do with Brendan. It soon becomes obvious that Tommy didn’t return home to make peace with his former alcoholic dad. Paddy tries apologizing, “I’m sorry, Tommy.” But Tommy’s reply is nothing but sarcasm. “Well…It’s good to know that you’re sorry, Pop. Goes a long way. I think I liked you better when you were a drunk (Warrior).” Tommy’s first confrontation with his father after years is just reassurance that there are still extremely harsh feelings towards his father, Brendan and their family past. Paddy only wants who’s left to come together as a family finally and leave the past behind.

There are several mood disorders that falls under the umbrella of PPD which makes it vital to decipher between them.

Dependent personality disorder, commonly referred to as DPD, has been formally diagnosed in approximately 2.5% of the population of the United States (Faith). Roughly 14% of individuals with a personality disorder have been diagnosed as having DPD (Faith). Dependent personality disorder is believed to affect one out of every 200 adults (“Dependent”). DPD is also commonly misdiagnosed as Avoidant Personality Disorder, or APD (Faith). 43% of people that are diagnosed with APD also meet the diagnostic criteria for DPD (Faith). 59% of people diagnosed with DPD meet the criteria for APD (Faith). In the novel A Separate Peace, the main character Gene Forrester encounters dependent personality disorder, and also struggles with some of the symptoms himself.

Multiple personality Disorder, (MPD) was first recognized in the 1700’s but was not understood so therefore was soon forgotten. Many cases showed up during the years, but was overlooked, or misdiagnosed as either schizophrenia or psychosis. Many in the medical profession did not believe that a person could have more than one personality in a body, unknowingly, even after the 1950’s. In 1993, records show that three to five thousand people were being treated for MPD, compared to the hundred cases reported ten years earlier. The disease is commonly found in adults who were abused mentally, physically, emotionally, and or sexually as children, between birth to eight years of age. The child uses a process called disassociation to separate himself/herself from the abusive situation. This is when the child makes up a personality to take control of the mind and body. During abuse, usually there is a personality for every emotion and feeling when the abuse is taking place. Symptoms of the disease include: amnesia, hallucinations, depression, and suicidal thoughts, and tendencies, and there can be anywhere from two to over a hundred different personalities. Usually each personality will fall into one of the following categories: host, core, child, teenager, artistic, adult, animals, intimate members, self-helpers, persecutor, rescuer and helper. The child is usually under the age of twelve, with according behaviors,

The importance of altering behavioral tendencies in those with MPA is imperative, according to authors, because there are a number of behavioral responses indicative of the disorder. Such behaviors include: worrying about the individual’s own performance, in addition to how well others are doing, ruminating over alternative responses to their current behaviors, becoming preoccupied with feelings of inadequacy, anticipation of

Growth of Character The Wars By: Justin Pascual For: Mrs. McGivern Date: Monday October 17, 2016 Period H The Wars Essay on Growth of Character There are many different types of battles one faces every day; internal battles, physical battles, and battles even against one’s own self. The result of these battles can dehumanize a man if he is exposed to a large amount of these battles in an extended amount of time.

His mom didn’t really want Robert at first and Vincent was very, very supportive about whether she wanted to bring Robert home or not. She said no until one night, when Mary and Vincent went home to their other children, Micheal, Gary, Paula, and Catherine and asked what they thought about bringing hime. All of Robert’s soon-to-be siblings said yes. While at first, Vincent and Mary were a little weirded out at first, their love for Robert grew stronger and stronger. Especially his mom’s, her love grew fast and fierce. His parents got over their “weird” feeling, they decided to take Robert out in the real world without getting

Sexual molestation, beating, neglect, burning, and verbal abuse. All of these horrible happenings are believed to be linked to a condition known as Multiple personality disorder (MPD). Multiple personality disorder, also known as dissociative identity disorder, is a mental illness in which a person has two or more identities or personalities. Single personalities randomly take control of the individual's behavior. Usually, the sufferer gives the personalities their own names. These multiple personalities almost always have characteristics that greatly differ from the person's primary identity. A person with this disorder always experiences some amount of amnesia. Most of the time the individual forgets

For the most part, I just listened. . . they talked of things that had happened to them—to them!—these past ten years. I waited in vain to hear my name on my wife's sweet lips: "And then my dear husband came into my life" —something like that. But I heard nothing of the sort. More talk of Robert. (351-352)