MPD is spelled S-u-i-c-i-d-e |
Studies have shown that those who receive the MPD diagnosis attempt suicide more often than prior to their diagnosis, which is just the opposite from what is seen with most mental illness diagnoses. This would tend to indicate that such patients are getting sicker rather than being cured.
Certainly if one wants to avoid the indicated higher suicide ideation and probably higher death rate, a person should avoid receiving the MPD diagnosis like the plague, unless it can be demonstrated to be 100% accurate. In most cases MPD diagnosis is only an agreed upon label between the patient and the therapist, with no hard evidence but lots of theory and imagined corroboration.
Symptoms may seem to fit the MPD diagnosis but that doesn’t mean that a person is MPD. There are alternative explanations for such symptoms. Other conditions may mimic DID. Hypnosis can produce such symptoms for example as is well known from the work of Charcot et al. Since the MPD label yields such deadly results, no one should allow themselves to be diagnosed as MPD lightly without regard for the negative consequences.
These negative consequences may include loss of ability to cope with life, unhealthy dependence upon a therapist, dependence upon drugs, marital and other relationship problems, family dissolution and loss of existing support system. These may also include job loss, loss of children, financial distress, inability to solve problems and feelings of being out of reality.
MPD also involves an impaired conscience but it is not clear if this is one of the presenting symptoms or the result of therapist conditioning. As already mentioned suicide is the most deadly possible negative outcome but certainly not the only adverse side effect of the MPD diagnosis.
I advise anyone who is being diagnosed as MPD/DID to get a second and then a third opinion. The dire results of the label warrant doing so. If you are not yet hooked into acceptance of such an identity, the best course of action would be to run, not walk from the office of the person trying to make this misdiagnosis.
MPD involves lots of personality but is deficient in character. This underlying character pathology indicates that the person with the symptoms may have a sin problem rather than a mental illness. Of course, insurance companies don’t pay out large sums of money to treat sin problems if the therapist is honest about it. Therein lies part of the problem with today’s treatments for mental disease and associated therapy. From the get-go, the practitioner is not allowed to be honest with either the client or the insurance company.
Sin is a problem for all human beings and yet we cannot admit this to the insurance company or to the person experiencing problems. How strange a deception!
Sin problems mimic MPD and other current psychiatric labels in common use in our society and within the mental health industry. Sin produces guilt which must be dealt with in some way, either denied, admitted or blamed on someone else. No human being can live with guilt if they have an effective and properly working conscience.
Psychologists will tell you that psychopath or their other label sociopath are for people who do not have a functioning conscience. Between a clean and healthy conscience and the totally seared conscience is a range of states where a person may have problems of intermittent twinges of remorse and sorrow concerning attitudes or behaviors which either violated God’s laws or the person’s own ethical standards.
There may be some debate over which is the more important standard in causing the result to the human organism between theologians and psychologists but one cannot deny there is an effect upon every one of us from such guilt.
Guilt produces shame over the prospect of being found out. This is something all of us wish to avoid at all costs. Shame involves feelings of unworthiness and lowered self-esteem which are very unpleasant. Particularly with the current emphasis on self-esteem one finds it very difficult to despise the shame and embrace one’s responsibility for one’s own guilty deeds, thoughts, or attitudes. It is much more appealing to find a scapegoat to blame or to allow oneself to be talked out of the validity of the standard which is believed to have been violated. This is the day-to-day business of today’s therapy industry.
The proper way to deal with guilt is to admit it to God and to the injured party while asking humbly for forgiveness. Unfortunately, the way most of tend to deal with our guilt is different. In a misguided effort to maintain our pride, we define ourselves as the injured party{finding all sorts of corroboration for our illusion} and demand satisfaction from the one we have harmed. Some even demand satisfaction from God when it is He we have sinned against in every case. This may work temporarily, but not in the long run. Symptoms will result which will drive us to seek solutions.
Some go to drugs and alcohol for these solutions. Some go to therapy. Some go to psychiatrists or psychologists. Some go to ministers. Some discuss their problems with other family members or with a good friend. Still others tough it out on their own. A few take their guilt to God and admit it and repent of their wrong attitudes, sinful behaviors, and ungodly thoughts, believing the biblical assurance that God will freely pardon those who come to him in this way with a contrite heart.
With a clean slate the person is ready to begin anew. Life is no longer a burden, though circumstances may not have changed, one has new resolve, there is hope. Shame has been erased, the penalty paid, the person is set free from a once certain appointment with justice. Psychologists will tell you that when a person commits a wrongful act {sin} that something within them longs for justice or punishment for their crime. Until that inner demand for punishment is fulfilled, there will be negative consequences, which show themselves in various ways.
Those who sought relief in chemicals for a perceived chemical imbalance or simply to numb the pain, may find they have new problems in addition to those which they were seeking to medicate.
Those who sought therapy may find they too have new problems such as new false identities assigned them by psychiatrists or therapists. They may find their marriages dissolved, their families shattered, their lives much worse off than when they only had the fairly common presenting problems for which they sought solutions.
Unfortunately those who make their living from selling drugs, alcohol, therapy, etc. will not advise you of the caveats which their wares involve. Please inform yourself and never subsitute "expert opinion" for God-given common sense or for the absolute necessity for a clean conscience.
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