Readers have at least heard of or even read about multiple personalities. Distraction is quite popular, as there are novels such as Sybil and 24 Faces of Billy that discuss this disorder. Maybe if the reader is still unfamiliar with the two works, to be able to imagine this disturbance a little more clearly the reader can try to look at examples of characters in popular fiction films.
For example, the character Norman Osborn in Spiderman has a kind-hearted Norman personality, and Goblin is another personality that tends to be like terrorists, or we can also see this disorder in a character named Gollum from the popular fiction works The Lord Of The Ring and The Hobbit. One personality is cowardly, kind, and friendly, while the other personality is evil, cunning, and cunning.
Personality disorder is a controversial disorder even today, especially in the legal field. Imagine, how to punish someone who doesn't even remember his own criminal behavior?
In Billy Milligan's case, people got suspicious and called him an accomplished conman who was good at acting. People said she was like that just to avoid being punished in the case of theft and rape. But even so, the psychologists who worked with Billy believed Billy had serious psychological problems.
Psychologists say that he has 24 different personalities, of which only 10 are initially known. However, on subsequent examinations, 14 more personalities were found, which turned out to be punished because these personalities were considered detrimental to Billy by other, more dominant personalities. In his biography, it is stated that Billy is likely to have this disorder because of the violence committed by his stepfather when he was a child.
In Sybil's case, the doctor who handled the case was accused of influencing Sybil and making her believe that she had multiple personalities. Doctors are accused of using Sybil as a medium for their own publications, but this is not the case.
Despite the controversy over whether multiple personalities are a serious psychological disorder or that it is the person's powerful dramatic abilities, multiple personalities are listed on the disorders list in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( a manual for psychologists to determine disorders ).
The official name in psychology for multiple personalities is Dissociative Identity Disorder or DID for short. This disorder is a mental disorder associated with damaged memory, loss of consciousness, loss of identity and damage to the meaning of the person.
The word dissociative in Dissociative Identity Disorder is a defense mechanism, dissociation is a defense mechanism used by a person by avoiding and releasing or cutting ties with the outside world, he tries to avoid perhaps by daydreaming or even losing his consciousness. events that are happening. happened so he could escape the stress.
Dissociation is used by a person as a defense mechanism to avoid physical pain, emotional pain, or from an unpleasant and stressful traumatic experience. According to experts, the criteria for Dissociative Identity Disorder are:
There are two or more identities in a person :
At least two personalities that emerge in a person have controlled behavior repeatedly
Difficulty remembering important personal information due to personality changes. (So he won't realize that he has another personality inside of him)
A person is said to experience Dissociative Identity Disorder when that person has at least two ego states or in other words two different personalities in him. Then have a feeling. These separate behaviors and minds and personalities arise and control the body of the person concerned at different times, in other words as if there are two or more people in one body. Each personality appears with a different identity, they have a different story, a different character, and a different name.
But even so, there are personalities that appear more often and use the original identity or personality called the host identity. Meanwhile, there are also what are called alter identities, which are other personalities that develop within a person and sometimes have characters with very striking differences.
For example, different identities may have the opposite sex, different ages from reality, different writing styles, different sexual orientations, different ways of interpreting things, ways of speaking and even their general knowledge.
For example, in Billy Milligan's case, one of his alter identities was a lesbian woman (homosexual woman) but the identity of the host, Billy, was a heterosexual man.
Dissociative Identity Disorder usually develops even in childhood, but it is rarely detected and is mostly recognized as adulthood. This disorder usually appears more frequently in women than men.
Patients with Dissociative Identity Disorder are usually accompanied by headaches, dependence on certain substances, phobias, hallucinations, suicide attempts, sexual dysfunction, and other dissociative characteristics such as amnesia and depersonalization.
Like adults with Dissociative Identity Disorder, children with Dissociative Identity Disorder exhibit different behaviors and emotional problems. They show erratic behavior at school, sometimes they are very good children and sometimes they are bad children.
They have a tendency for antisocial behavior, such as stealing, playing with fire, and being excessively aggressive. They may also engage in promiscuity and substance abuse. Children with this disorder may also have characteristics similar to those with PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder).
Finally, I hope this article is useful.
I actualky wrote about split personalities. glad to see another writer that has similar interest.. 😊