Multiple Personality: Nonsense? Rare Mental Illness? Fakery? Demon Possession?

Most educated people dismiss multiple personality as nonsense. It doesn’t seem possible for a person to have other people inside them. Actually, multiple personality doesn’t mean having other real persons inside you, but whether the alternate personalities are real or imaginary, the whole idea seems preposterous; although, most educated people do allow for the possibility that a person could have multiple personality as a rare mental illness. They don’t know why, if it exists at all, that it would be rare, but they think it must be.

Since movies show actors faking multiple personality, it is obviously something a person could fake. It is harder to fake than most other mental illnesses, because correctly remembering the ideosyncracies of a dozen or more personalities is not easy, but it is easy to fake in the short run.

Most psychiatric patients do not want to fake or be diagnosed as having multiple personality, because they think it is crazier than other mental illnesses like schizophrenia, because it is only in multiple personality that you don’t even know who you are or remember what you do. 

Traditionally, religious people think of multiple personality as being possessed by spirits or demons, which may make the very idea of multiple personality seem frightening or even satanic.

So it is easy to understand why relatively few people can read this blog with an open mind.