So is multiple personalities a real disorder or not?
I remmeber seeing a TV medical documentary once where a man would sneeze and change into another personality. And they caught it on-camera once and it really amazed me.
He looked, sounded, and acted like an entirely different person. And I dont mean in the little ways- like a person just acting differently , you would have sworn it was a different person.
His facial features were changed, his mannerisms, tone of voice, everything. I remember thinking that I if it was not real, it was the most amazing acting I ever saw.
I cannot recall any benefit to the guy at all. In fact, one personality was trying to stop the other from buying a car they could not afford.
There's the benefit. It's the same in all of us but he's playing it up. It's your internal conflict or the little angel whispering in one ear and the devil whispering in the other. The "devil" or the "whaaa, I want" side is all for getting the new over budget car while on the other hand the angel or your practical side knows you can't afford it.
My husband’s previous wife was diagnosed with multiple personalities. She would even spell her name differently depending on the personality that was ‘out’. From the stories he’s told me, it does seem that it was real. Very strange...