BallerGamer

Is it possible for a single person to have more than two personalities? I hear some cases of a person having only one more personality, but I don't think I've ever heard of a three+ personality case. I'm doing a story where the government forcibly takes a person's soul, and inserts them in another person. Having more personalities is beneficial, but would a human container be able to contain so many?

Ilan Bouchard

Yes, there are disorders in which people have many personalities.

But if you're writing a story that involves transferring souls, I don't think you have to worry about logistics too much.

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strangedaze

many people with dissociative identity disorder can have more than three. one woman had close to twenty, with each 'personality' performing a function (ie: one was self-destructive, one was childlike, etc). however, i agree with ilan logistics arent a big concern.

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BallerGamer

Thanks! Well I was kind of worried because if the limit was only 2, then some people might have nitpicked me, and this was an important part of the story.

dream_player

Multiple Personalities are in almost everyone. I know one minute I can be a sweet angel, the next... well you do not want to know.. But its possible. Have you ever seen a woman with just one???

character1_Caitlin

THere is a book called Sible or however you spell the name. She had a wack of them.
Whatever you do the names do not have to rhyme. The soap opera One life to live, first it was Vicki/Nicki then now her daugher Jess/Tess

Have some imagination with it. Usually each personality comes from a trauma, the others are protective usually. From what I have heard.

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I have DID/MPD. Not fun.

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lisajane

Sybil. She had sixteen of them.

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Beardedtroll

For the sake of argument, a skeptical article on MPD.

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strangedaze

I've read somewhere that in a survey about a third of the medical community, and this was in the 90s, I think, did not believe that DID existed and simply lumped it together with schizophrenia. Thankfully, times have changed.

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character1_Caitlin

Thank, I was wondering how many she had. That book was based on a true story wasn't it? I am still along the lines that extreme trauma can bring them about where as with schizophrenia, which my brother had is no different then the predisposition to have cancer.

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lisajane

That's true Caitlin. DID and schizophrenia are two completely different disorders. Schizophrenia, like depression, has a genetic factor in it (in other words, if you have a parent with either one - like I have an aunt, grandfather and cousin with depression as well as myself - there is a higher chance of getting it yourself), and is much more common. DID can be brought about by extreme trauma, like ongoing sexual abuse as a child, as it can be a way of dissociating yourself from the event.

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