problem about split personality?

Question

How do we know when we have split personality, or do we actually know it ourself?

Answer 1

Several symptoms are characteristic of dissociative identity disorder: fluctuating symptom pictures; fluctuating levels of function, from highly effective to disabled; severe headaches or other bodily pain; time distortions, time lapse, and amnesia; and depersonalization and derealization. Depersonalization refers to feeling unreal, removed from one's self, and detached from one's physical and mental processes. The patient feels like an observer of his life and may actually see himself as if he were watching a movie. Derealization refers to experiencing familiar persons and surroundings as if they were unfamiliar and strange or unreal.

Persons with dissociative identity disorder are often told of things they have done but do not remember and of notable changes in their behavior. They may discover objects, productions, or handwriting that they cannot account for or recognize; they may refer to themselves in the first person plural (we) or in the third person (he, she, they); and they may have amnesia for events that occurred between ages 6 and 11. Amnesia for earlier events is normal and widespread.

Answer 2

These days it's called Dissociative Identity Disorder, and it's extremely hard to diagnose. It is an accepted personality disorder and yes it does exist even if some people choose not to believe it.

It's not about a change of moods or about being "one way" with some people or some situations, and "another way" in a different situation. Everybody does that, playing roles or wearing masks. DID is far more complex. And since all of us have inner voices that we may variously call our inner child, or ego, superego, id, or conscience or whatever .. it can be all too easy to assume that it's DID when it may not be.

Many but not all people with DID are survivors of childhood trauma (but not all survivors of childhood trauma develop DID). From what I know of the subject, it is usually developed in childhood as a coping mechanism to deal with unbearable reality. (the mind "splits" so that the child can continue with every day life by compartmentalising different aspects of its life .. it's not insanity, on the contrary, it is a way to stay sane.

If you want to know more about it, you can check out www.sidran.org or www.issd.org (international society for the study of dissociation). Don't pay ANY attention to Hollywood or paperback fiction on the subject they are way off the mark and just sensationalised, exaggerated, misleading or misinformed.

Answer 3

If you are a dissociative identity disorder you may not be aware of it. (Formerly it was known as multiple personality disorder). You may recognize when you "lost time". You may have a history of being called a "liar" because you don't remember things you said or did and later try to deny them when "you" were clearly observed doing them.

I don't know enough about you. I know that learning about it this way can open a Pandora's Box of problems that you most probably are not prepared to deal with and you definitely should not be alone while learning about it.

Find a professional who is trained to deal with D.I.D., PTSD, and abuse issues- please!!!!!!!!!!!

The suicide rate is extremely high for D.I.D.'s who do not have a really good support system.

If you see/hear other people around you that others do not see- they may be alters. Don't let them open up with details about why they can into your life until you are with a professional or someone prepared to deal with it and keep you safe.

There used to be a really good site called Healing Hopes, but it's not there anymore. I'm sure a search (Dissociative Identity Disorders) will turn up some information on support groups that may be helpful. But it's better to not be alone at all until you know how to deal with it.

Answer 4

My mom went through that and after many, many specialist, they came to the conclusion that it doesn't exist and never did. You are probably a manic depressive or have a severe bi-polar disorder. FYI: the most famous person with split personality turned out to be a bi-polar and never had split personality! Sybil.

Answer 5

Personaly, I know I have a split personality, because sometimes I feel one way about something, and then depending on my mood I feel enteirley different about it.
I think most people know, some just need to look a little deeper and think about it, but other than that I think you realize it yourself.

Answer 6

I think it has to do with how one acts emotionally towards different people and the situations or scenario's that they are in, in a certain environment than the one he or she was in before.

Answer 7

its very hard to deal with that sort of a problem but u just got to remember to find your true self and to sick with it even when the going gets rough

Answer 8

you tend to change the way you act and feel towards things to certains people and you act just plain different to what you usually act like.