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when someone has multiple personalities, how does the doctor know they’re not just faking it?
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Multiple personality disorder doesnt exist in pshyciatry. There are diagnosis with dissociative symptoms where the person has a warped sense of time or feels outside of the body or loses awareness completly of what is happening. This does not mean that the person in that time is “taken over” by another distinct fully formed other personality from inside the pshyce.
There is one mention of it way back in the seventies (read money grab, pop science paperback “sybill”) based on a single patient. That was discovered through the use of memory recovering hypno therapy , wich is another debunked psychological idea.
Its resurgence back in the mainstream seems through tumbler users in the 2010’s liking things so hard , they claimed it became an intrinsic part of their identity. I find it absolutly fascinating how this “did” idea carried over allmost 40 years untouched for it to explode into allmost a whole generation believing it exists as such.
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