Esquire has a strange article about what it's like to have multiple personalities.
"Physical relationships are a challenge. Daniel is a male self in a female body. If Daniel happened to become conscious while one of us heterosexual women was involved with a male, he would panic. It probably seems like I’m complex, moody, and inconsistent, when the truth is that each one of us is simply being ourself. Raven is a shaman, whereas Jackie is wary of anything she considers to be new age and refers to people who believe in this as “a pack of crystal-danglers.” Some of us drink Scotch and others don’t drink at all. Each of us has come into being as naturally as you did. It’s just that we happen to share one body."
It seems like it would be scary. How do you have any control over your personalities? Do your personalities know there are others? What if one of your personalities commits a crime, and then you are punished for it? How do you sustain a relationship with a significant other? The mind is a mysterious wonder. It's amazing to think that a personality can break off into fragments and create new ones.
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Multiple Personality Disorder is astoundingly strange. I have no idea how a person is able to live any semblance of a normal life with this disease. It is fascinating to read about, though. I remember reading Shirley Jackson's 1954 novel, The Bird's Nest. I read it so long ago that I might read it again. It is a riveting portrayal of a young women who discovers through hypnosis that she has three other people living in her brain.
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