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disorder, which now according the the DMR-IV (I believe that is the book, the one professional therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists use)it is now called Dissociation Identity Disorder. There are things they need to look for to be considered MPD.

-Hearing voices, different from schizophrenia though

-Loss of time, days, years, hours

-Fugue

-Amnesia

-2 or more distinct personalities that have their identity, their own likes, dislikes, way

talking, dressing, etc. They also usually go by a different name, but they may not.

These 2 or more personalities must take control of the person so they are evident to others,

they are not imaginary but a distinct personality with their own way of perceiving

things, relating to people and their surroundings.

-Loss of items, or forgetfulness, not caused by disease, blackouts, or substance abuse.

-Clothes, possessions, that you have no idea of how it got there or why you have it.

-Different styles of writing, speaking (in my diaries you can see different handwriting, and

-A different way of speaking, it would be like one train of thought going on and then another train of thought would go on and then as if there was no break the original begins again, but in a different handwriting.

These are just a few clues to Multiple Personality Disorder.

I know people say there is a debate about the reality of it, I know people who don't believe in such a thing, but I know it is now being accepted more by mainstream psychology with the guidelines above, and there are more that they look for.

It is a real disorder, one that those who have it, are what I feel, to be looked as "freaks" but in reality, our brain was able to save us from cracking up and able to live a somewhat "normal" life.

Yes, I have been depressed most of my life, and suicidal, the vague memories I had along with the ones I could remember of the abuse was horrific, I don't know what I'd do if I had not had alters to take the majority of the abuse, just the abuse I went through myself left me broken, hollow, worthless, and can you expect a child, an innocent child or a baby to understand it? No, there is no way an innocent child or baby could comprehend the horror they just went through so they just sort of checked out and someone else take what evil was being done to them. Without the ability to divide our minds into alters or compartments the trauma would be too horrific for them and their mind would inevitably shatter.

Some psychologists see it as a fractured mind, it is

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