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Everyone has different sides to their personalities, this is true. Sometimes we may be serious and sometimes playful. Some people may show a change in their personalities when they are drinking or using drugs. Yes, but dissociative (or multiple) personality disorder is different. In it, more than one distinct identity exists within a person's body. These identities control behavior. The person has an inability to remember important personal information, and it's a problem too severe to be explained by ordinary forgetfulness.
The person with a dissociative identity disorder has a primary identity that usually carries the individual's given name. This identity is usually depressed, guilty, passive, and dependent. Other identities, or personalities, generally have their own names, likes, dislikes, and skills. Different personalities may act like they have different ages, genders, or races. There may be as few as two identities or more than one hundred. The personalities may or may not have knowledge of the others.
Stress tends to bring on changes in personalities.
Truly, this disorder totally creeps me out. I could never fully understand what it must be like for someone with an all out case of this disorder.