Its My World And My Life~

Hmmm..I was reading about split personality the other day. You know, the whole Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde thing? Someone could suddenly take over another identity and forget totally who he os she was. It sounds pretty interesting to me.

Wikipedia calls it Dissociative identity disorder which is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a condition in which a person displays multiple distinct identities or personalities (known as alter egos or alters), each with its own pattern of perceiving and interacting with the environment. It must be a psychological condition that has nothing whatsoever to do with prolonged drug taking or medication.

So what could be the causes? Some experts say childhood trauma, some say sexual abuse. So What could be it?

I think that for my point of view, these people suffers a lot more than normal people think they do. Imagine not knowing who you are and forgetting everyone around you the next time you wake up and imagine people slowly abandoning you because they are afraid of you. I just can't imagine that.

I think they get confused sometimes, of who the real host is and who the alter is. So how do you get to be a totally different personality altogether over night? Let's just say you were a plain Jane, with normal height, normal built, normal strength and normal social life...but one day you become super Jenny, with not so normal personal vendetta, hate and revenge? Thats creepy. So is this alter created by our subconscious? The place where we couldn't master and control?

We probably all have our painful memories and would like so much to escape it and want somebody else to take it away from us so here comes Super Jenny.

Here are a few cases of recorded real life split personalities

Case-1 (to acknowledge the author, Sanjeev Sharma)

The first patient is a man named William S. Milligan, he was caught by the charge of rape in Ohio at 1977. As police and the psychologists examined him, they found the unbelievable fact that he had several personalities. Here are the first ten personalities they found. In The Minds of Billy Milligan;

1. The first personality is the main personality, Billy, twenty-seven years old, blue eyes, brown hair.

2. The second personality is Arthur, twenty-two years old, British. This personality and the next one are the keeper of the "Spot", where they can have the control of the body, or become themselves open to the outer world through the body of Billy.

3. The third personality is Leigen, twenty-three years old, Yugoslav, who knows how to fight and can use gun and other dangerous stuff, controls the hate.

4. Fourth personality is Allen, eighteen years old, talkative, only one who smoke and right handed.

5. Fifth personality is Tommy, sixteen years old, knows how to unlock chains or handcuffs, and the specialist of the electricity.

6. Sixth personality is Danny, fourteen years old, always scared to something especially man, blond hair, blue eyes.

7. Seventh personality is David, eight years old, controls pain, red-brown hair blue eyes.

8. Eighth personality is Christine, three years old, cannot talk, blond hair, female.

9. Ninth personality is Christopher, thirteen years old, brother of Christine.

10. For the last tenth personality, Adarana, nineteen years old, quiet, lesbian, female.

Those were the main ten personalities of the William S. Milligan. As if you wonder how they know their outlooks, William Milligan, Billy has a hobby of painting, or some of the personalities do. Therefore, they draw each other on the painting and that is how they get to know their outlooks.

Case-2

The woman's name is Claudia Ellen Yascow. She was arrested by the charge of killing four people, which they found later that she was not the suspect. However, it was not unnecessary for the police to think that she was the suspect, because she had information of the scene that cannot be known unless the person has been there. Even though the information was confusing and messy because of her mental disease, police believed her and thought that she was the suspect, for she knew even where the pot and other little detail was at when the crime occurred. She was caught once but let go after few month with the check of psychologist that she has a incubation type of split minds, and the lie detector found her answer to the question that she was not at the scene when the crime happened showed what she said is true, "No, I did not."

Her trouble is brought up mainly because of her mental disease, incubation type of split mind. Claudia is different, as she can always be herself even she is in a great pressure, but she will be losing a collect criterion to judge what kind of situation she is in. For example, when she was caught in jail, she truly thought that she was in a middle of movie taking and she was playing her rolls of main heroine. "Suddenly she put the smile on her face and said 'I never thought that I could have a great chance like this,' She leaned her head on the wall.'I've always thought of having a chance to do a big act like a big actress. I do have some experience of acting in few films as a supporting player, but if I play this murderess act, maybe I can be very famous.' Dye stared at her and asked, 'You think we are making a film right now?' She slapped his hand softly, smiling, 'Oh Dye, you have seen all those cameras at the corridor and those of TV's. I hope I can have a deal with a lot of money coming in, you know it is kind of hard to act.'

It is very clear now that split personality not only makes the victim succumb to a couple of subconscious personality but sometimes dozens.

I am merely curious about this phenomena. If you have more to share, do share here thanks^^