A former piano student emailed and asked me to help with his research work about personality disorders.
Students frequently make the error of confusing such cases of multiple personality with the so-called "split personality," known technically as schizophrenia. This is a psychotic disorder in which the individual is "split off from reality." In multiple personality, the conscious part of the personality remains in contact with reality, though reacting to it neurotically. In this type of reaction, which is very rare, the individual may develop two or more distinct, even radically different personalities. Each takes conscious control of the person for varying periods of time. Usually, although not always, each personality does not know of the other.
What about bipolar disorder?
Hey man, I am not the one studying,
you do your own research work!
I am done with these things and that's it!
you do your own research work!
I am done with these things and that's it!
