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Multiple personality disorder is where the mind is protecting itself. It is an extreme self defense mechanism where the mind creates separate identities that hold the trauma that the person who went through that trauma is able to go on as if the trauma did not happen or to go on living the best way that person knows how to after being abused.

Most people who suffer from multiple personality have been badly abused. Not all people who are badly abused have multple personity disorder, but those that do, have it because it is their coping mechanism.

We all have ways to cope with bad things.

Trauma, especially the trauma of abuse where it is long term, has been shown that the brain processes those memories differently than memories of normal everyday things. It is like it gets shelved in a different filing cabinet and there are ways to restore the traumatic memories into the brain where it can be processed. EMDR is one method to bring the memories to a point of where they are not haunting you constantly but can be processed as a regular thought and looked at as such and thereby being able to deal with it and accept it.

Multiple personality causes one to have lots of undealt with memories, and it is not just that they are shelved differently but they are held in the memory of another "person" inside them. They are not always told to the host person so the memories are lost to them completely
and not everyone with multiple personality disorder knows they have it. What they do know is there is a lot of time missing in a time line of their life, events, people, places and things done are completely forgotten because they are hidden away from the host person.

An alter can share with you what they went through, some do not, mine feel I am not ready to know and have given me vague clues like a puzzle to put together, mostly because some of those memories are coming from the one who was abused about the age of 4. Most 4 year olds cannot describe that type of abuse so I get pictures in my mind instead, just glimpses of what happened to us.

When the abuse continues the one with multiple personality dissociates and the alter takes over the victim's place in the abuse. Holding the memory of it and when the alter has left you may have a vague sense of what took place, or you may know nothing at all. For you were not able to process the trauma of the event and an alter, someone else holds the memory and the feelings of what took place to you.

I know, for I have multiple personality

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