Submitted 1 day ago by Rhoeri@piefed.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
It’s called dissociate identity disorder and as someone who has it, it would depend if your talking metaphorically, or society, as society would could consider one body means it would be a suicide, however metaphysical and philosophy it would would depend on the system and how they are.
Just know, most people with d.i.d. are not “making people up” and identities in there systems are very real.
I think this is called "punching down" and is no longer an acceptable form of humor.
Although, to be fair, they do actually outnumber us in a 1v1 situation.
I think you need to lighten up. It’s not punching anywhere.
I can't tell if the downvotes are against my punching down statement or my follow-up joke about being outnumbered.
No. Alternate identities in people with DID (dissociative identity disorder) are not literally other people; they’re different identity complexes within the same person. Such a person would need a good therapist/psychiatrist, not a hostage negotiator.
If one of the personalities is a hostage negotiator you got yourself a —fuckme… that terrible director with a collection of goth girls at his gate — M. Night Shyamalan movie 🍿
I’d watch the shit out of that!
I’d watch it ironically… is it to soon to watch a Nazi fighting an alien?
Good post!
What if the aggressor misses, and stabs the wrong one?
Autoserialkiller?
AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
This is a good shower thought. Probably a good idea to call a psychiatrist rather than a cop tho
Also I want to mention that “multiple personality disorder” is now called Dissociative Identity Disorder and there’s no real consensus that truly having multiple separate identities in the same brain is even possible.
Lost time (gaps in memory) and significant changes in personality over time are a thing, but the existence of separate identities seems most likely to be societal response, as in people just acting out the fantasy that they have different identities.
Acting like you have multiple personalities, especially using that kind of fantasy to deal with trauma or life, is still a real mental illness. It’s just not really “multiple personalities” as portrayed in media or pop culture
GraveyardOrbit@lemmy.zip 23 hours ago
Maybe too philosophical to be answered but I wonder if it matters if it’s real? If someone is so convinced and acts as if there were multiple identities could that ever be measured or quantified?
AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 hours ago
While I’m a big fan of philosophical pragmatism, I don’t think it applies here because if the identities are truly separate, it seems less likely you’d be able to treat this kind of mental illness.
It’s much easier to teach people better coping methods than it would be to go about trying to reunify identities since… well where would you even start?
As a testable hypothesis, truly separate personalities would not share all memories but a person presenting them as facades wouldn’t be able to keep the information separate perfectly. Chances are you would be able to design an experiment to trip them up.