Thatās true. I was hoping to convey that the disorder comes from the dissociation aspect of it. We arenāt born with our personalities already intact, they develop and unify around the age of 5-6, and DID is a response to trauma from before that age. So, we all have āmultiple personalitiesā, but donāt consider them to be āseparateā because we can still communicate with them. Instead, we just consider them āaspectsā of a single personality, but itās a gray area.
We arenāt born with our personalities already intact, they develop and unify around the age of 5-6, and DID is a response to trauma from before that age.
Thatās the current prominent theory, but testing it empirically would be disastrously unethical.
Thatās true. I was hoping to convey that the disorder comes from the dissociation aspect of it. We arenāt born with our personalities already intact, they develop and unify around the age of 5-6, and DID is a response to trauma from before that age. So, we all have āmultiple personalitiesā, but donāt consider them to be āseparateā because we can still communicate with them. Instead, we just consider them āaspectsā of a single personality, but itās a gray area.
Thatās the current prominent theory, but testing it empirically would be disastrously unethical.