As a part of this weekly blog, I thought I might want to do a little research about Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). The video that Mr. Dreier showed us was intriguing but I wanted to see what other kinds of personalities may exist within other people. The woman in this video (her name is either Katie or Mary I believe) claimed to have 25 different personalities, all who knew of each others existence. With DID it seems more likely that the personalities wouldn't know each other because they're all separate people living separately from one another. She goes on to talk about how one of her personalities was a lesbian and that her other personalities didn't know about her girlfriend. When she would switch people, she literally became a whole new person with different memories and perceptions. She claimed that she was able to walk and think at 7 months old and that she remembered being neglected at that young of an age. She then made up another personality to take the place of the life she was living. I find it absolutely impossible to believe that someone can remember something from as early as 7 months old as well as be able to create a personality. DID is something that you're diagnosed with, not something that you can just make up. Personally I think this woman is full of bologna. Her cat, however, makes chirping sounds throughout the video so if the cat had another personality that was a bird, I wouldn't have a hard time believing that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1sXbnBmy8U
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