Split personality is multiple personality disorder, a neurosis in which the personality becomes dissociated into two or more distinct parts each of which becomes dominant and controls behavior from time to time to the exclusion of the other parts.
A split personality has nothing to do with schizophrenia, but more with Multiple Personality Syndrome (MPS). This is a psychiatric disorder that causes the sufferer's personality to divide into sub personalities, also known as alters. The alters have their own memory, and don't know of each other's existence. Consequently, the sufferer has episodes of amnesia.
The development of MPS is almost always triggered by severe abuse, including sexual abuse. During the traumatic experience the person becomes dissociated from the experience, becomes 'not there', and an alter personality takes over the pain.
For every traumatic experience an alter is created. The alternating of the alters is easily recognized by the changing of the voice of the sufferer.
MPS is one of the most severe forms of defence mechanisms used to cope with extremely traumatic experiences.
Sometimes, I forget things really fast. Is it because that it's my alter that has taken over me? Sometimes, I don't know who I am anymore.
I want to be me.
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