Have you ever walked to a different room, but once you are there, you completely have forgotten what your purpose was? Maybe you have caught yourself staring completely zoned out, well this is what it's like to have multiple personalities. Dissociative identity disorder is when someone's brain splits or creates a different personality to help the host, the main persona that usually has dominant control, cope with difficult situations. How this might work? Say a young child was abused in any way, their brain can create a personality that deals with these situations. The child may not remember them as an adult, but will believe that a stronger person helped them through it, almost like an imaginary friend. There are many different outcomes to having a separate …show more content…
When a person is experiencing an extreme situation, the person literally goes into their mind, and at this moment this allows certain memories be separated from the person as if it never happened. " Neurobiological studies of DID support the validity of the clinical diagnosis and suggest that one brain can generate two or more distinct states of self-awareness, each with its own unique pattern of seeing, thinking, behaving and remembering (Scientific American).” Based off the studies that Simone Reinders and colleagues at the University Groningen recorded, dissociative identity disorder patient reactions to their own traumatic experiences showed how the brain splits personalities as if there were two different people. In the host natural self, there was no connection, recollection of the experience. When the self that did endure the experience was dominant, their heart rate went up, different brain patterns between the two personalities were shown, and of course they remembered the traumatic