

'They all like different foods, one of them ordered fish in a restaurant once and I don't like fish.'īo started noticing her personalities when she was in her teens after fiery middle-aged Texas started being hostile towards her friends.

'Toast likes really baggy clothes and Layla is really into pink, girly stuff while I like really earthy tones and comfortable clothes,' explained Toast. 'Sometimes Casey asks to see Bo and they tell him he has to wait.'Įach personality has different tastes in food, clothing and even partners. One might come forward and tell me to have a shower or they can stay around for days and the people around me just have to wait until Bo comes back. 'They can even come forward just for a few minutes. If these become disconnected from each other, an individual's sense of identity, their memories and they way they perceive themselves in the world will change - and this is what happens to sufferers of Dissociative identity disorder. How well a person appears to be coping is not a good way of telling how severely affected they are.Ī person's sense of reality and who they are depends on their feelings, thoughts, sensations, perceptions and memories. The impact of dissociation varies from person to person and may change over time. People who have DID can experience the shifts of identity as separate personalities.Įach identity may be in control of their behaviour and thoughts at different times and each has a distinctive pattern of thinking and relating to the world.ĭissociation can affect a person's perception, thinking, feeling, behaviour, body and memory. The defining feature is severe change in identity.

Some people see it as a personality disorder, although it is not. Dissociative identity disorder (DID) is the most complex dissociative disorder and is also known as multiple personality disorder (MPD).
