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Multiple Personality Disorder PSYC 435 Abnormal Psychology
Guidelines for Personal Observation Paper
"Lurking" is an information technology term referring to passively observing others' electronic comments. Your
assignment will be to search out and observe specific blogs and postings by persons who have mental health-related
diagnoses (you will choose ONE category of disorders to follow – i.e. depression, OCD, Schizophrenia, etc). You
will follow their comments and postings over the course of the semester, learning about their specific disorders (i.e.
mood, anxiety, psychotic, substance abuse, personality disorders, etc) and how those disorders affect their emotions,
relationships, academic/occupational performance, etc.
You will NOT identify yourselves to the people you observe, nor will you post your own comments to these sites.
At the end of your observation period you will write a 10-12 page paper documenting what you learned about this

