Best Answer: St. Augustine (Florida) is the oldest continually occupied European settlement in the continental United States, only San Juan, Puerto Rico predates the city as the oldest settlement within the territory of the United States.
Finally in 1980 the American Psychiatric Association officially recognized multiple personality disorder as a genuine emotional illness. Today, MPD is a relatively popular diagnosis with 20,000 cases recorded between 1980 and 1990. Researchers currently believe that from 0.01-10% of the general population has this mental illness.
Paul McHugh. Multiple personality disorder (MPD) is a psychiatric disorder characterized by having at least one alter personality that controls behavior. The alters are said to occur spontaneously and involuntarily, and function more or less independently of each other.