Multiple Personality Disorder Syndrome?
NATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOMOEOPATHY 2003 May / Jun VOL V NO 3.
Dr Mirza Anwar Baig
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What is man? It is difficult to define: is he a soul or
psyche? One is spiritual, the other dynamic, or the combination of the two: the
‘Aatma’ and the ‘Prana’ (soul and life), as defined in the
Rig-Veda- the most ancient Indian scripture.. ‘Quran’ also defines, that man
is a subtlety! Made by God who also injected His Soul and intellect into him.
According to ‘Quran’ Man is His assistant (Khalifa) sent to the earth for a
purpose. The poet now wonders "Is God now ashamed for that?"
Psychic and psychical behavioral disorders have been known to mankind since
prehistoric times. They were attributed to supernatural influences. Hippocrates
was the first to deny this superstitious belief. Treating mental disorders is
difficult since brain is a chemical computer. One brain is equal to all
computers of the world. But how the brain stores memory is not yet understood.
Freud added analyzing insights, while Hahnemann’s homeopathy gave specific
remedies.
"Multiple Personality Disorder Syndrome": Human psyche (not soul)
is sick and gives rise to a group of mental symptoms with physical signs and
behavioral disorders. Although exact nature or the pathogenesis is not yet
clear, few theories described are:
- As hysteria can be an emotional expression in the form of physical acts, personality disorder may be a somatic expression of its chemical content, expressed through various delusions, either visual or auditory, or may also be in the form of dreams.
- Some researchers linked this with auto immune disorder, where certain responsible enzymes being, release in certain substances in the body under the influence of certain, psychological, emotional or phobic situations and which if not excreted out as the situation gets over, would damage own cells or centers and will alter their chemistry.
- Some pointed out serum toxin the Teraxin, an enzyme related due to disorder in protein or carbohydrate metabolism can be caused by trauma.
- Some even relate this to indigenous or exotic causes, occurring due to some dynamic influence? They hold the view that pineal body is (possibly) responsible for this! Pineal body is an endocrine gland, being discovered recently in relation to its functions, that this gland is a window to the x-zone? X-zone cannot be visualized through naked eyes.
- Yet one more possibility: some researchers have described this as a disturbance in balance of the mind i.e. the to and fro movement such as e.g.; kill, don’t kill; love, don’t love. Now-a-days this is a common phenomena leading to stressful life.
- Few causes like withdrawal from reality with a tendency
towards autism. Flat or uncongenial emotions, reactions with inconsistent and
impulsive in nature. Split in personality or psychosis, due to withdrawal from
social or emotional contacts.
Disturbance in protein or carbohydrate metabolism by alcohol and drugs. Head injury or infection, may be hereditary.
Some characteristic features are, a decreasing interest in the outside world. Increasing interest in one’s self with high ego, with own thoughts, own philosophy, loss of interest in work and social contacts. Odd behaviour, emotional reaction, anxiety, anger, weeping, cursing and banging own head: Sometimes violent and abusive, or inflict the injury on himself. Aversion with loved ones or family members. Impulsive and perception of auditory or visual hallucinations, sadness, indifference or violence towards loved ones or to himself.
Often escapes from reality: walks fast, sleepless, crazy for music. Sudden changeability, from sadness to cheerfulness, from crying to laughter. Seeing oneself in mirror constantly or would show battered towards himself. May sit alone, staring out of the window for a long time. Day dreamer or sleep walker (somnambulism).
Few Examples (But Who Were The Patients?):
Told by few colleagues; describing in their own words, "I was in general surgical unit, and was posted in a district hospital. It was around midnight when this happened. It was raining outside and I was about to sleep when some one knocked at the door, which was not unusual for me, most of the emergency used to come that way. The person who was standing was under umbrella, his face was not clearly visible. He started talking about the murder, whose body was brought to the hospital for the postmortem, sometime that evening.
Suddenly lightening appeared for a while and I could see his hand in which he was holding the umbrella. There was a typical mark on it. Next day when I was conducting post-mortem, I found the same mark on the body. To my surprise the result of the postmortem was also same, as what he had described. Most surprising was I did not find that man thereafter in spite of my intense search."
Another interesting story described by an orthopedic surgeon, he said, "One girl, daughter of colleague in the same hospital, went to a picnic along with her classmates after finishing S.S.C. exam. After returning she started behaving strangely. She stopped eating and looked as if being possessed under some superhuman influence. Doctor at the hospital treated her, some other experts were also called, but her condition deteriorated. Someone suggested and a Moulvi (who teaches Quran) was called from a nearby village. He examined her and asked for a bottle. An empty saline bottle from the hospital waste was handed over to him. He examined her and explained to the relatives that he had locked that spirit which was influencing her into the bottle and handed that bottle to them with the instructions that it must be buried under the ground away from there at some deserted place. But they buried it somewhere at the back of the hospital.
They noticed a psychological change in her behaviour, considering that psychologically. But the girl started getting attracted towards backyard as if some one calling her there and identified the spot where bottle was buried. Now doctors of the hospital decided to do an experiment. Secretly the number of the bottle was noted, and was buried inside the garbage of empty bottles were lying in a room at one side of the campus in a room, and which was only known to these doctors who decided to do that experiment.
To their surprise they found the girl started getting attracted towards that room, and finally unearthed that bottle from the heap of bottles. After this the bottle was buried as per the instructions of Maulvi, somewhere far away. And finally the girl was cured permanently."
Another interesting case, was narrated by a psychiatrist, as his most mysterious case. She was a lady around 30, during every no moon’s night, used to get mysterious kind of attacks, as if she is being raped and her husband used to watch helplessly. Although husband did never see any person, but she did see, (in her delusions?)! So my friend decided to watch her, what happens and how happens On his anticipated day he fixed his appointment with the family, and in his own words... "I was chatting with husband in the drawing room, while children were sent to the neighbours house. As the anticipated time approached, husband started looking at his wrist watch desperately, in between somewhere around midnight she screamed, pointing towards window, he is there. I saw no one, except some noise, as if some one jumped. Husband started shivering, I saw she started posing as if was trying to protect her. But she was thrown on the cot, and then, like a film shooting! I don’t understand, may be she would have been in hysterical fits, but what about he noises?" He further confessed "In fact I failed to treat her, a Sadhu succeeded"!!
