Are there really people have two personalities?

Question

If there are,what can trigger such a thing?

Answer 1

I worked with a teenaged young woman once, who was multiple personalities. I'd never really "believed" in this, tho' I'd read of it. The "main" one was a dowdy teenager. I worked in a psych treatment facility and youth care called me and asked me to up to the unit. There was "Cindy", but she was angry, eyes snapping. She was in Time-Out. She was so DESTINCTIVELY DIFFERENT, I knew this was real. I interviewed her as a new client. She said her name was "Cynthia", she was 26 yrs old (Cynthia was her mother and was 26 when Cindy was 5 yrs, as the history provided), and she "hated that child!" This went on with several other personalities emerging. Cindy had been brutally sexually moslested and her personalities had never been integrated!! I ended up doing "Family Therapy" with the different parts, until finally "Cindy" matured, "became" a teenager. One evening, I was working late, was in my office, when I was surprised to see Cindy at my office door. She obviously, was in an altered state. She had her coat and hat on; told me that she and her "friend" were leaving and what was I going to do about it. I stated that I couldn't physically stop her, but because she was legally placed there, I'd have to call the police and report her as a runaway. She left. I trailed her, and she went back upstairs to the closed unit. Youth Care told me she had gone back to her room and gone to sleep. I realized that she had actually PROGRESSED to adolescence and was acting-out her independence, as a potential "runaway". I counted this as PROGRESS, as she had'nt harmed herself as in the past, and she was safe in bed. She also had had a friend (albeit, an imaginary one)--very important in adolescence! Cindy went on, after seemingly integrating more of her "parental introjects", became independent and later after leaving treatment, joined the NAVY!!! All went well for her until she was stationed in Hawaii, and evidently gotten into pot. She decompensated, and was out of the Navy. I never knew what happened to her....

Answer 2

Yes, there is such a thing as Multiple Personality Disorder. Usually triggered by traumatic childhood.

Or they could just be a Gemini ;)

Answer 3

Currently there exists the diagnosis of Dissociative Identity Disorder, formerly Multiple Personality Disorder.

All this chaos was started by a woman known as Sybil. A book and movie was made after her. Since then, it has been highly debatable and now many people doubt the accuracy and credibility of Sybil. This has been tied to what is known as False Memory Syndrome, where therapists repress memories that do not exist. They do this through the use of power of suggestion. Usually, they put the idea in your head if, commonly, have you ever been molested? What it does is makes you think about it, and question that perhaps you were, so you dig into your past to prove that you were.

Funny, these same therapists also are telling our US Government to ban "unethical and illegal interrogations" when, if you know the history of the APA, the government funds them! The reason why we have a DSM is because the government told them to do it because of the influx of criminals who weren't right.

Of course, no APA-kiss-*** on here will willfully or completely admit this because they feel, if it was important, they're professors (most of which work under APA's guidelines) would have told them! Even the DSM-IV-TR, if I remember, explains its own history but does so in a way that you become bored from reading it and miss it. Pretty cool how psychology works, doesn't it!

Answer 4

Yes, i believe so. Only cause i feel as if i have two inside of me for example one is an adult and the other is still a child exploring this world as it changes.

Trigger: There are many things that can cause two personalities such as one may want to be a better person then one is or the fact of being rejected too much is putting them down so they invent someone who wont put up with it.

It's so the person knows they can turn to someone when ever they're not feeling them-self.
Or
It's like when you feel down you put a smile on your face as a mask well this is another way for people to show that they're happy no matter what comes there way.

Answer 5

Yes, there are people who have two or more personalities. Traumatic childhood experiences from what I've read most people develop split personalities when they are young, between the age of 2-8.

Answer 6

I personally feel everybody has at least two. One when they are alone,one when they are in public, one when they are with a significant other etc.

Answer 7

No, no there are not...YES YES THERE ARE...no, no really....YES YES YES THERE ARE!