What is it like to have multiple personalities?

Someone asked us this. Thought we'd post our response here.

As far as what DID is like....wow. Its sort of like,
being stuck in a cell with a lot of people at one
time, all trying to share the same place, some of them
you like and some of them you might hate, but being
told you all have to figure out a way to get along
because you're all stuck with each other. Everyone is
different ages, different personality types, at
different intelligence levels, with different senses
of humor, with different friends, and different
abilities. And you can all decide to do only one
activity at a time, so you've got to work together as
a team to figure out what you're going to do with
yourself-- the thing is, everyone in your cell has
very different ideas on what is fun and what is not
fun. Someone likes to read, someone likes to drive
fast, someone likes to paint, someone likes to chat on
IM, someone likes to do research, someone likes to
play Sims for all hours, etc. And for every one that
likes something, 1 or 2 or 5 other people think its a
stupid idea. But you're there together, so you HAVE to
figure out how to get along and how to make friends
with each other, because you're going to be together
for life.

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1. Posted by keepers and john on October 2, 2007

2. Posted by miquie's crew on October 10, 2007