
Originally Posted by
asiafever
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.