The other night, I was watching the TV drama Private Practice. The show displayed a therapy patient that, at first glance, appeared to have Multiple Personality Disorder. If anyone knows anything about mental illnesses, they know that this illness is so rare, most professionals in the field will never come across a patient that actually suffers from it. Many argue that it doesn’t actually exist. But we see it depicted in movies and on television all the time. The technical name for what most people would call Multiple Personality Disorder is Dissociative Identity Disorder and it results from an extreme … Continue reading →