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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Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), more commonly referred to as Multiple Personality Disorder, is the occurrence of more than one "self". Here, there is a host, or the actual person who has been diagnosed with the problem. There is also the presence of an alter-ego, or the other "self".
It is interesting to note that alter-egos can range from one to a hundred. For more common cases however, the number of alter-egos do not exceed ten. These alters may take different forms. They could take the personality of the abuser or be the avenger of the abused. They may also be the keeper of family secrets or the expresser of forbidden desires that the host must not show to the world. They could be younger than the actual person or even of opposite sex. In Dissociative Identity Disorder, alters can virtually take any age, any sex and any characteristics. (to be continued...)
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