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Silver Nitrate
Oct 17, 2005

WHAT

Popular Thug Drink posted:

MPD itself is a spurious idea but it can be either pop-psychology attention seeking or a very real symptom of a very serious brain problem. It doesn't really exist as a functional disorder and tends to crop up among shysters but then again there is a common set of MPD attributes and behaviors that is recognized among people with other mental disorders to add some weight to the idea. For example, MPD can be a sign of epilepsy, schizophrenia, borderline, bipolar, or other as of yet unidentified hallucinatory problems.

You're forgetting the most important one, which is PTSD. DID is related to extremely serious abuse, usually as a child. It's a coping mechanism that starts off being helpful, i.e. dissociating when really bad things are happening makes it easier to deal with everything else. It unfortunately turns out to be really bad when it continues to happen after the abuse stops.

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