• thezeesystem@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    5 months ago

    It’s called dissociate identity disorder and as someone who has it, it would depend if your talking metaphorically, or society, as society would could consider one body means it would be a suicide, however metaphysical and philosophy it would would depend on the system and how they are.

    Just know, most people with d.i.d. are not “making people up” and identities in there systems are very real.

  • Tedesche@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    No. Alternate identities in people with DID (dissociative identity disorder) are not literally other people; they’re different identity complexes within the same person. Such a person would need a good therapist/psychiatrist, not a hostage negotiator.

  • AmidFuror@fedia.io
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    5 months ago

    I think this is called “punching down” and is no longer an acceptable form of humor.

    Although, to be fair, they do actually outnumber us in a 1v1 situation.

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        5 months ago

        I can’t tell if the downvotes are against my punching down statement or my follow-up joke about being outnumbered.

  • AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 months ago

    This is a good shower thought. Probably a good idea to call a psychiatrist rather than a cop tho

    Also I want to mention that “multiple personality disorder” is now called Dissociative Identity Disorder and there’s no real consensus that truly having multiple separate identities in the same brain is even possible.

    Lost time (gaps in memory) and significant changes in personality over time are a thing, but the existence of separate identities seems most likely to be societal response, as in people just acting out the fantasy that they have different identities.

    Acting like you have multiple personalities, especially using that kind of fantasy to deal with trauma or life, is still a real mental illness. It’s just not really “multiple personalities” as portrayed in media or pop culture