When people with multi personalities become one of their personalities their physical body can also experience amazing affects. One personality can be almost blind while another can have eagle type vision. One can have diabetes while all the others have no problems with their sugar blood levels. One personality can be extremely smart while another appears slower. How does the average person without the mind illness of being a split personality become aware of the changes this person is capable of making unconsciously? I tend to believe, if we can find the answer to this we can wipe out many of the illnesses we face today. Any ideas?
2007-01-15 08:24:40 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
"Split personality" is referred to as dissociative identity disorder. Often the personalities that are present do not have significantly different biological differences, only sometimes do they exhibit these. I have not heard of one personality being diabetic while another not being diabetic but I have heard of vision impairments.
Another disorder with similar symptoms is conversion disorder where a person can display symptoms such as paralysis with no underlying neurological causes. These cases are rare but usually are associated with extreme psychological distress.
The problem to your argument is that people are not actually surpassing their abilities through their multiple personalities but rather are losing abilities with certain personalities. You are right to notice that many diseases may have psychological causes but that does not mean that we can eradicate diseases by changing the way we think.
As a side note, we use 10% of our brain at any given time but nearly all of the brain is used. The common argument that we should learn to use more of our brain is based on the assumption that thinking more will increase our productivity. We actually just need to learn how to think better.
2007-01-15 09:03:31 · answer #1 · answered by el curtido 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Most of what you describe are psychosomatic symptoms of MPD. The body doesn't necessarily have poorer vision or be smarter or slower, the brain just thinks it does and the person acts accordingly. I agree that there is huge amounts of unlocked potential in the human brain (we only use between 10 and 15%), but Multiple personality disorder is not the answer or a clue. Keep looking though.
2007-01-15 08:32:56 · answer #2 · answered by Chris B 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Intriquing. Shall muse and answer later.
2007-01-15 09:10:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its impossible..the world is too corrupted as we know it...there is no cure for peoples "mental illnesses"..you cant just wipe out their traumas of there childhoods...no one is god..per say...
2007-01-15 08:37:11 · answer #4 · answered by RoseOfTheEnvious 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋