Multiple Personality: Not Crazy

Multiple Personality, called “Dissociative Identity” in the diagnostic manual, DSM-5 (1), is not a psychosis, because persons who have it can distinguish subjective and objective reality.  But their subjective reality, like virtual reality, can feel more real than objective reality.  So when a person seems crazy, but is not crazy, consider multiple personality.

1. American Psychiatric Association: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition. Arlington, VA, American Psychiatric Association, 2013.