You mention thes "splits" - how does this work - what does it look like?....Their personality "disintegrates" into several people-it is kind of like a psychiatric disease-schizophrenia, Three Faces of Eve...etc.
I hate to be a stickler (ah heck, that's a LIE! ) but at least part of this information is highly suspect.
AND it happens to be a pet peeve of mine.
Schizophrenia and Dissociative Identity Disorder or DID (formerly Multiple Personality Disorder) are two COMPLETELY different diagnoses.
Schizophrenia is a serious disintegration of the mind, loss of contact with reality, delusions, hallucinations...NO "split personality"
DID involves the process of dissociation. The kind of thing that happens in dreams where you KNOW you're dreaming..watching the dream, and IN the dream at the same time...also the kind of thing that happens when you're driving and just arrive home without any recall of the last 10 mintues...who was driving your car???
DID develops primarliy in children who have suffered extreme repeated abuse...they "dissociate" to escape the abuse, are imaginative enough to create a "alter" personalities who hold the memories for the abuse, and "come forward" in similar situations in the future.
There is often complete amnesia for periods when the "alters" are "out".
NEITHER of these diagnoses comes close to what you're experiencing with your H. Now as a sort of analogy...well okay....I guess....
JEEPERS...You can tell what Shiny is lecturing on during any given week by the rambling posts on psychological stuff!!!
Sorry Cath!
My real message was to be wary of that site! That kind of misinformation is pretty blatant and I'd wonder about the credentials of the persons involved.
Although it might feel weirdly good to pin a psychological disorder on someone (ahhh...so THAT explains it!)....most of the time it's more complex than that.
) but at least part of this information is highly suspect.
