Split personality - a mental disorder, which is characterized by the presence of several (two or more) "I". That is, a person is led by several personalities, which in medicine is called dissociative personality disorder. Split personality is mistakenly confused with schizophrenia, because schizophrenia is a loss of reality, a boundary between the imaginary and the existing world. When schizophrenia begins hallucinations, delusions, disorientation and the patient is deprived of efficiency.
Symptoms of a split personality
All the signs of a split personality are well known to us, for they serve as an excuse for creating anecdotes, comedies and all sorts of ridicule. However, despite the interpretation of the disease from the TV screens, at least once seeing people with a split personality, it becomes no joke.
- there are at least two I - the main and depressed;
- one "I" always knows about the presence of the second (suppressed "I"), the second about the presence of the former is not guessed;
- people act in identical situations in different ways - "different" "I" are "included";
- one "I" - positive, correct and law-abiding, the second - a dirty infringer, which always inclines the first "I" to inaccuracies;
- there are headaches, a person hears voices that "prompt", how to act.
The diagnosis of a split personality is based solely on the patient's complaints, since there is still no laboratory study to determine the presence of the disease.
Often the syndrome of split personality appears in people who are weak-willed, who are outcasts of society, serve as an excuse for ridicule and mockery. To protect themselves, such people still in their childhood invent a superhero, which in their imagination always saves from malicious surroundings.
Thus, the disease is born in childhood, but the obvious outlines appear in adulthood, when the superhero moves from the imagination into real life.