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\pard\sa200\sl276\slmult1\f0\fs22\lang9 DID is one of several dissociative
disorders. These disorders affect your ability to connect with reality. Formerly
known as multiple personality disorder, this disorder involves "switching" to other
identities. The person may feel as if they have two or more people talking or
living inside their head. They may feel like they're possessed by other identities.
Each identity may have a unique name, personal history and features. ({{\field{\*\
fldinst{HYPERLINK https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/dissociative-
disorders/symptoms-causes/syc-20355215
}}{\fldrslt{https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/dissociative-disorders/
symptoms-causes/syc-20355215\ul0\cf0}}}}\f0\fs22 ). This disorder is widely
misrepsented or misunderstood because of media. People may consider individuals
with DID as "crazy" or "mad" but that's far from the truth. Most people with DID
are functional and a lot people may not even realize they have DID. It's not that
rare as well, affecting 1.5% of the world population. The movie "Psycho"
represented DID in a fairly accurate way. It is important to note that DID differs
quite a lot between person to person, and they experience it diffirently. In the
movie, the main antagonist is shown to have two personalities, one of his mother
and one who is Norman Bates. Norman Bates is for most of the movie the "main"
personality, being shown in his everyday life and interaction with people. Norman
Bates could be called the "pilot", meaning he is the main personality of the body.
People with DID usually have a pilot, who's usually the "original" personality.
Norman Bates created the personality of his mother after a very traumatic event, in
which he killed his own mother and her fiance. This is how DID usually forms, as a
defense mechanism from the brain from prolonged trauma, where a personality is
formed as a way to cope. To Dissociate means to disconnect, which the brain does
when another personality forms and possibly takes over. There are two types of DID,
Possesion : Identities present as if an outside being or spirit took control over
the persons body and Nonpossesion: Idendities are less known to others, The person
might feel a sudden change in your self-identification, as if they're watching
themsleves in a movie (an \ldblquote out-of-body\rdblquote experience) instead of
being in control of their speech, emotions or behaviors. ({{\field{\*\
fldinst{HYPERLINK https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/9792-dissociative-
identity-disorder-multiple-personality-disorder
}}{\fldrslt{https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/9792-dissociative-
identity-disorder-multiple-personality-disorder\ul0\cf0}}}}\f0\fs22 ). In the case
of Norman Bate, it is most likely that he was not aware of his condition, which is
something that can happen in real life as well. One person who has DID described it
as the following : "Think about if you had to share a head with multiple people.
You'd hear everything they do, you'd know almost everything they do, your mental
capacity would be a lot less. It's like living in a household that never shuts up
and only grows." As mentioned, DID is a condition that differs from person to
person, for some people, memories do not transfer when personalites switch, such is
the case for Norman. One common thing we've noticed with people who have DID is a
so called "headspace". It's a space where the personalities can communicate with
each other, sometimes that space even appears to them as a physical space, such as
a library. It's an inner world where alters (other personalties) reside when they
arent fronting (in charge of the body). ({{\field{\*\fldinst{HYPERLINK
https://multipliedbyone.org/dissociative-identity-disorder-terminology/ }}{\
fldrslt{https://multipliedbyone.org/dissociative-identity-disorder-terminology/\
ul0\cf0}}}}\f0\fs22 ) Alters often have their own opinions of things, people, their
own abilities, strenghts and weaknesses, exactly like any human being. Even tho
this condition is documented by many people, including psychologist and
psychiatrists, lots of people still question whether DID really exists or not, but
there is a lot of evidence for it's existence. Such as a report from the British
Journal of Psychiatry : "Machine-learning and neuroimaging techniques have been
used to accurately distinguish between individuals with Dissociative Identity
Disorder (DID) and healthy individuals, on the basis of their brain structure, in
new research part funded by the NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre." The
accuracy of these test were 73%.( {{\field{\*\fldinst{HYPERLINK
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/archive/news/ioppn/records/2018/december/computers-can-
%27spot-the-difference%27-between-healthy-brains-and-the-brains-of-people-with-
dissociative-identity-disorder
}}{\fldrslt{https://www.kcl.ac.uk/archive/news/ioppn/records/2018/december/
computers-can-%27spot-the-difference%27-between-healthy-brains-and-the-brains-of-
people-with-dissociative-identity-disorder\ul0\cf0}}}}\f0\fs22 ). In conclusion,
DID, the most extreme dissociative disorder, is a real and documented disorder that
affects more people than commonly thought. The movie "Psycho" has done a good job
on representing this disorder and we recommend watching the movie to both have a
good time and learn something.\par
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