Today it is called dissociative identity disorder. It seems to develop when a child has experienced terrible abuse. Instead of one identity, the child develops several selves or alters and each self seems to manage different sets of emotions or experiences. The alters may or may not know about each other.
It is an extremely rare disorder. Because of that there are still a lot of unknowns. Diagnosis is tricky as well.
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