Took me about ten seconds of listening to suspect this was a dude.
You're good. I didn't realize it until your comment, then I looked at her hands.
Regardless, the video just seemed to me like different sides of the same person. How often have you seen someone act differently around different groups of people? They don't all have DID. Her "sexual side" seemed pretty fake, an act. But I'm not one to judge--her life won't impact mine. I understand having multiple dissociative personalities--there are plenty of documented cases. However, I don't think those personalities have been shown to be able to pop up on demand. I thought it was more of external stimuli and reactions to that, plus some seeming randomness. I'm curious how the other personalities agreed that the video would be a good idea. I feel like the "others" wouldn't all agree to get on camera, and would actually be separate and more random.
You're good. I didn't realize it until your comment, then I looked at her hands.
Regardless, the video just seemed to me like different sides of the same person. How often have you seen someone act differently around different groups of people? They don't all have DID. Her "sexual side" seemed pretty fake, an act. But I'm not one to judge--her life won't impact mine. I understand having multiple dissociative personalities--there are plenty of documented cases. However, I don't think those personalities have been shown to be able to pop up on demand. I thought it was more of external stimuli and reactions to that, plus some seeming randomness. I'm curious how the other personalities agreed that the video would be a good idea. I feel like the "others" wouldn't all agree to get on camera, and would actually be separate and more random.
But whatever.
"On demand" would be theoretically possible, but could not be common.. Reason i'm thinking this is there can be some bleed-over, where one of the alters is 'aware' of what is going on, but not 'present' ( sort of like watching TV is how it was described to me ). But its rare and that would normally be during/after therapy anyway.
For what its worth, I dont think there is any true randomness, its just the pattern has not been figured out by the people involved. A switch can be caused both physical or 'situational' events, sometimes subtle.
Leaving notes for each other is not un-heard of, so i guess videos would not be out of the question. ( i admit i didnt watch the video, i dont want to see it )
EDIT: Oh, and 5 personalities ( as the image eluded to ) is a bit of a stretch.. Not impossible but the more the rarer...
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