Quote Originally Posted by Double_Adapter View Post
He said the movie exorcist was based on real life events from a book called 'Begone Satan'
The Catholics call it exorcism and the Protestant's call it deliverance. He went on to say that children and animals are more receptive to the supernatural ie their senses haven't been adulterated and conditioned by society. He did say that people with multiple personalities have spirits inside them (ie ghosts of dead people) and is the reason why some serial killers always say that a voice told them to do it. My mate who is a psychiatrist reckons it's all bs but cannot offer a decent or plausible explanation for any of the above. When I was in Brazil i saw a macumba ritual and that is next level shit!
Multiple personality disorder, or Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) as it is now known, is triggered by a traumatic event, usially sexual or physical abuse. Yes when the person is suffering an episode it causes memory loss, and delusions.. Having lived with someone for a short time who was a sufferer there is nothing paranormal about it, therapy reduces the frequency of the switches. Having seen a switch, and then later discussed the switch with the person, again, nothing paranormal about it. They were going through a difficult time and lost control. The alter was a female while the person was a male, they were abused as a child and the switch would detach them from the trauma. It is true that the alters "communicate" with the host, often the alter is protective (of course, ot appeared during a traumatic experience) and can lead to cases of paranoia.
Anyway. That's multiple personalities in a nutshell. We were fed a lot of bullshit previously that schizophrenia was DID and so on, not helped by Hollywood of course. Totally separate conditions. Schizophrenia yes has delusions, but it's an altered experience of reality, that can be coupled with hallucinations. Again, very few people with either of these are violent, but yes it can happen that the delusions or hallucinations cause them to act aggressive or violent.