That’s true. I was hoping to convey that the disorder comes from the dissociation aspect of it. We aren’t born with our personalities already intact, they develop and unify around the age of 5-6, and DID is a response to trauma from before that age. So, we all have ‘multiple personalities’, but don’t consider them to be ‘separate’ because we can still communicate with them. Instead, we just consider them ‘aspects’ of a single personality, but it’s a gray area.
We aren’t born with our personalities already intact, they develop and unify around the age of 5-6, and DID is a response to trauma from before that age.
That’s the current prominent theory, but testing it empirically would be disastrously unethical.
That’s true. I was hoping to convey that the disorder comes from the dissociation aspect of it. We aren’t born with our personalities already intact, they develop and unify around the age of 5-6, and DID is a response to trauma from before that age. So, we all have ‘multiple personalities’, but don’t consider them to be ‘separate’ because we can still communicate with them. Instead, we just consider them ‘aspects’ of a single personality, but it’s a gray area.
That’s the current prominent theory, but testing it empirically would be disastrously unethical.