Have you ever met someone with multiple personalities? What were they like?

Answer 1

yes i have a close friend who has 4 personalities. she is no different than any of my other friends. She worked for my husband for about a year until he closed the business down. I always joked that we got 4 ppl for the price of 1. 9 times out of 10 she was normal. sometimes if she was overwhelmed she would change into a personality that could cope better with the demand. Sometimes me and that personality would clash and i would tell her bring megan back because im not likeing your attitude. that usually didnt work but sara (one of her many personalities) would go to the break room and eventually megan would come back out. One time when i took megan to have surgery the doctor asked her if she smoked because she had both the yes and no marked and she told him " I dont smoke but one of me does". Also coming out of surgery we had to give the nurses all of her names because when she came out from haveing the procedure she wasn't megan. We were told that they studied it in school but megan was their first case of ever seeing it. All in All they are like the average person however they do have their moments. If you know what your looking for and how to react to them when they aren't themself you can have a nice friendship with them.

Answer 2

Yes; I used to do interviews of new patients at a mental health agency. The patient was an attractive African American female about 25 to 30 years old; she was neatly groomed, appeared to be intelligent. She said her religion was Buddhist, which I thought was interesting and we talked about that a little. She had to do a questionaire on a computer (it was part of the interview process); when I asked if it was okay with her to do that she said with obvious confidence "I'm very computer literate." The only thing that was weird about the interview was when I asked who raised her, she said "my alternate personalities." Then there were questions about if she had ever been physically or sexually abused by the people who raised her, she said she was physically and sexually abused, but it was by her parents, not her "alternate personalities" who she said were "nice to her." We had other clients who were diagnosed with Multiple Personality Disorder (now they call it "Dissociative Personality Disorder) but she was the only one I ever met. I recall that all of the patients we had with this diagnosis were female and had been sexually abused as children. I also recall that a psychitarist later changed this girl's diagnosis to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. I later went to a seminar given by a psychiatrist, and he said some psychiatrists don't believe there's any such thing as Multiple Personality, and he said that he didn't believe in it either. Apparently, it's a pretty rare thing. I recall another psychiatrist saying it's the "UFO and Bigfoot of psychiatry." I also worked at a mental hospital and we had one patient who had that diagnosis. I never met this lady, but I remember a nurse from the ward saying the lady "got on the floor under a table and made silly noises." A lot of people working at the hospital wanted to see her because they never saw anybody with the diagnosis before; some of them said they thought she was faking it.

Answer 3

Yes. Myself. I had 12 different personalities at one time. Lots and lots of therapy later, I only have one "alter" and I can control her pretty well most of the time. My experience has been that when one of my alters would come out, it was like I was asleep, and then a week or two later, my friends would say" hey, don't you remember, you did this..." and I would have no answer, because it wasnt' me. I know that I was confusing to a lot of people, and had several boyfriends break up with me as a result. Since then, I have been through therapy and am currently in "remission" and happily married.

Answer 4

Oh ya my x wife before we got married see told me that she had a evil twin i just figured it was something to say ..Ha Ha no way 1 day she was the sweetest person on earth but other time it was like being in a crazy house and then 1 day she wanted a divorce and i said o.k. about 10 min she was sorry .a day later she wanted a divorce again this keeped on until i moved out and 6 mo. later she wanted to get to know me and i said no way .. but i was the 1 that had the problem she said .huh go figure ..

Answer 5

I am considered to be an "alter", or a personality other than the "original" one. I'll answer your question based upon my own experiences in dealing with other people. Nobody, other than my health care provider, is aware of my situation.

First, I am one of two full-fledged "personalities", the other being the original personality. The original personality has no idea that I exist, and she "blanks out" whenever I am "in control", whereas I am capable of remembering all of her events (as well as mine, of course) in a coherent fashion.

The “original” is very simple-minded, sweet, childish & irresponsible, whereas I am quite the opposite. We share many of the same interests and hobbies, but not the same views on issues. She is a "rug", while I am a "warrior". There is no cliche, however, of one of us being "good" while the other is "evil", etc. That's nonsense.

Separately, we each are viable people; but when other people naturally assume that we are the same person, this causes trouble. I feel for the people who have seen both of us in action, as they usually are at a complete loss as to how to take me.

People who are mostly knowledgable about the “original” will regard me (assuming that I’m her) with a sort of disdain or worse, treat me with kid gloves, as though I were a sort of simpleton. My “original” is unforgivably scatterbrained as a character trait, and add that to the fact that she can’t possibly be expected to recall the life that I lead while I’m “in control”, and she’s regarded as almost perfectly useless most of the time. Whereas people who aren’t aware of her and who know me more receive me better, and I’m treated with the respect that I deserve.

I try to keep our associates separate in an effort to maintain some consistency. For instance, we live with her boyfriend, but I don’t stick around on the homefront while he’s there. For this main reason, most people remain unaware that anything is amiss. I’m sure you’ve known people (who do not have MPD/DID) who project different images of themselves to different people. It would look pretty much like that.

Answer 6

they hide this disorder so well . because of the year they had such good practice in doing so , you never do really know if you have met someone with this disorder that it very hard to really know for sure, one minute that act really nice caring next yelling screaming , or at time just quiet look like that become a dream world, another you say hey you have cookies in the over and you know they did it because you saw them, when you bring it to their attention they will swore the didn't , Yes I know someone and get scary for you being around them but you ever think it gets scary for them too because they know what they are doing from one moment to the next so if the question is i knew they was No, we become friend long enough like 10 years they trusted me enough and finally told me how they have to live with this most of their life. and they are afraid if people found out they would be put away for go in hospital or no one would have nothing to do with them so they keep it to themselves all the time and tell no one because they are afraid people would have nothing to do with them . She told me once she told very close friend one time and every time that person got mad at them they would call them names , say hey what personally am i dealing with now, phyco all kind of horror able names so she found it much easy say nothing to no one and try to control it when she around people as much as she can, she does good job at it in those years i known her until she told me, I treat her no different , i just learn to cope with each personally as if he one most of time as if they would differ net people and make it a lot easy on your friendship

Answer 7

each so often I pretend to be human beings in basic terms to get a reaction from strangers. Valley female Tiffani, Southern Tiffani, British Tiffani, all of them come out even as i want human beings to seem at me and see more effective than only a overweight black female as their first reaction. i do not imagine that is MP because i'll administration even as they emerge.... or a minimum of i imagine i'm on right of factors. Hmmm.

Answer 8

It's kind of hard to tell unless you know which one you are talking to. To answer your question, they are not normal. Normal for them is what is normal for the particual personality that is dominant at the moment. For the most part, they are just like anyone else, they are affected by their invironment of the moment.

Answer 9

amazing.one minute they are themselves a moment of silence Ashe is another person of history and takes on that role. if you do not accept her in her new indent she becomes enraged.some of her identifies are fascinating and pleasurable.others are disgusting.

Answer 10

one minute you talk to them real nice and a few minutes later that person could get mad at you for reasons unknown to you
personalities can swicth so quikly you can't even tell