"Multiple personalities disorder" are entirely the result of suggestion and does not exist as an actual person having multiple "persons" taking turns in the body. It's play-pretend for attention.
It took off when doctors started suggesting and reinforcing the play-pretend and suddenly lots of people wanted that new cool headmates (fake) disorder.
Exactly like the craze of "recovered memories" when a bunch of people started accusing their parents of sexually abusing them as babies and toddlers after multiple sessions of suggestion / reinforcement by their therapist. The poor patients eventually believe those imaginary scenarios they slowly crafted with the therapist are totally real memories.
So it's Tumblr but for people with even shorter attention spans.
"Multiple personalities disorder" are entirely the result of suggestion and does not exist as an actual person having multiple "persons" taking turns in the body. It's play-pretend for attention.
It took off when doctors started suggesting and reinforcing the play-pretend and suddenly lots of people wanted that new cool headmates (fake) disorder.
Exactly like the craze of "recovered memories" when a bunch of people started accusing their parents of sexually abusing them as babies and toddlers after multiple sessions of suggestion / reinforcement by their therapist. The poor patients eventually believe those imaginary scenarios they slowly crafted with the therapist are totally real memories.