Identity disorder is very real, but there's no way there's that many unless something else is going on, for sure.

I think the issue is this: Shirley McLean is gone and forgotten, so they don't have a new age leader that gives them non-Hindu/non-Buddhist reincarnation as a spiritual explanation for how they feel. So, the younger generation get scooped up by the sinister types who want them to be outed so that they can make clearer targets of themselves.