Have you seen the movie Secret Window? The character in that film, Mort Rainey, played by Johnny Depp has Dissociative Identity Disorder. Similar movies are Hide and Seek which starred Robert De Niro and Dakota Fanning; Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho with Anthony Perkins acting as the loony ; and of course Sybil which is based on the true story of Shirley Ardell Mason.
What then is Dissociative Identity Disorder?
Let's all find out...
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continued from part 2
But why does an individual develop Dissociative Identity Disorder and how does this process occur?
When a person, usually a child, is subjected to extreme and repeated sexual abuse, she may create alters in order to escape the pain that she experiences in real life. When the child forms a fantasy world, she disconnects herself from what is real and engages in fantastical thoughts about being another person. When this happens frequently, it may result to an aborted development of the child’s sense of self. The sense of self then breaks down into many different selves that have their own identities, as the child is unable to integrate all of them into one single person. This is then the time that alter-egos may evolve from the child’s experience of trauma and would take the form of the abuser. It could also be that the part of the child that holds all the happy memories would evolve into another “self” or that the unreleased anger would evolve into an aggressive identity. Whatever form it may take, the alter-ego is always different from the host personality. (to be continued...)
Related stories:
Dissociative Identity Disorder (part 1/4)
Dissociative Identity Disorder (part 2/4)
Dissociative Identity Disorder (part 4/4)
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