How scared (1-10 with 10 very scared)would you be around a person with multiple personalities?

Question

In any setting-on average.

Answer 1

My best friend's brother has multiple personalities. It is merely a condition where as a child the person went through so much trauma that their brain had to compartmentalize. Contrary to what TV and movies show us. They usually are not dangerous to others. Besides this it is less dangerous then many other conditions which people who usually have calm dispositions can get such as post partem depression where there is a danger of both suicide and homicide in some severe cases. Before you start counting your fear check out the truth about this condition. A lot of people go through therapy once they know what their condition is and become one compartmentalized person.

Answer 2

2

Answer 3

10

Answer 4

3

Answer 5

Unless I have reason to think that one or more of their personalities is violent/dangerous, probably less scared than I am around most people. Talking to people in general makes me nervous, basically because I worry that I'll say something stupid and end up looking like an idiot. But if the other person is crazy, they're not really in a position to think that I'm crazy. Because if they have no idea what I'm talking about, maybe it's just because it was meant for their other personality, right? Hey, it makes sense to me. Personally, I think it would be facinating to meet someone with multiple personilities.

However, most of the time, no one can tell that someone has multiple personalities. My mom's a psycologist, and she says that even really good shrinks can see someone for months, even years, and not know they have multiple personalities. Why? Because they never meet the other personality, and if they do, there's usually another way it can be explained. If you're talking to, a little kid, and one day he informs you that whateve you normally call him isn't really his name, it's something else, are you going to think he has multiple personalities, or that he's just being a kid? People with multiple personalities will usually describe losing chunks of time (when another personality was in control), but there are various other reasons this can happen, and it's usually attributed to one of these at first. Unlike in the movies, people don't switch between personalities constantly, and the different personalities aren't aware of the others' existance. Just talking to someone on the street, you'd never know they have multiple personalities unless they tell you they've been diagnosed with it (and they wouldn't even know themself that they had it unless they've been told).

Multiple personality is a defense mechanism that sometimes develops in response to extreme, and usually prolonged emotional trauma in a certain critical period in childhood. The patient's main personality will be dominant most of the time, and the alternate personalities usually only come out in response to extreme stress. The idea is that the child's dominant personality won't remember the traumatic events (usually some form abuse), and therefore won't have to deal with it. The alternate personality might be an adult, even when the patient is still a child, or might stay a child when the patient grows up, and may or may not be the same gender or even ethnicity as the patient. But, in general, when that child grows up, you're not going to see that personality that comes out to absorb traumatic experiences unless you're robbing him at gunpoint or such, because in day-to-day life it's generally the "normal" personality (the one that was being protected) that's dominant.

Answer 6

6

Answer 7

Been there done that.

It all depends on the personality. Paula (name not real) hated men. I feared for my life when she came out. Liza (name not real) was not to be trusted, very promiscuous. The others ranged from women to children, even a little boy.

The first time I saw it I was scared she was possessed. She wasn't. Truth is that she became these other personalities to take abuse her father inflicted upon her. When the abuse was over, the root person came back out as if nothing happened.

It's a terrible thing, and usually means someone was abused physically or sexually. Emotional abuse seems to manifest itself in a different way.

So, from 1 to 10, I'd say maybe 2 or 3 at the most. They're just people who have had bad experiences. I'd give it a zero, but when a person is not balanced they can become unpredictable. Otherwise, I'm not put off by it.

:)

Answer 8

If I was around a person who has mp, I would rate about a 7. This disease can ultimately turn a person dangerous! It would have to depend on the person and their personalities, I suppose. If it was a person on the street, no one would really even know the difference, but if it was a family member or a close friend and I understood the level of their condition, it might not be as drastic.

Just for the sake of curiosity, why would you ask that?

Answer 9

Hi! You Should know it would be at least a 10 if they are not on meds. lol! but if it was me it would be a 1, if it was Bonnie it would be a 1 if it were hannah it would be a 5 if it was trisha it would be a 8 if it were iron child it would be a 10 if it were veronica it would be a 1. So you see it just depends who it is. lol! Hugs! Von!

Answer 10

ABOUT A 6