In Multiple Personalities Disorder, recently named Dissociative Identity

Disorder (DID), up to 13 personalities alternate in a person. The person with DID

may feel the presence of other identities talking or living inside their head. Each

personality is unique and has its own name, personal history, and sets of

memories, ideas, thoughts, ways of thinking and purposes. One identity may be

the protector while another can be a child. This mental disorder appears to be

common and it can be found in 4% of people hospitalized in mental facilities.


People with DID chronically escape their reality in involuntary and unhealthy

ways, it usually develops as a reaction to trauma and functions to keep difficult

memories at bay. This disorder is not inherited, it usually develops during an

abusive childhood, the......

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