I have never been formally diagnosed with MPD or its newly named incarnation, "DID". However, I know this is just because I am never honest with therapists - and why would I be? The very "disorder" itself is considered by some to be a hoax, which really pisses me off. The people who come up with this are the same people who write books that says recovered memories are all lies, when amnesia of traumatic events is something that has been recorded for hundreds of years. They also want to pretend childhood abuse doesn't exist, which leads me to believe that they are either trying to hide something (either their own abusiveness or their past experiences they cannot admit to) or they cannot for whatever reason believe the very common tragedy of abuse that impacts so many families and children. But even beyond the authorized psychiatric view of what the mind "should" be - I don't think people are as singular as they believe. RAW refers to himself in much of his writing by various names, depending on which aspect of himself he was exhibiting at the time: The Skeptic; The Scientist; The Mystic. The Qabalah teaches that there is one god, yet s/he is referred to by a multitude of names depending on the aspect s/he is showing or the capacity in which s/he is moving/acting: there is EHEIEH, the Creator or the I AM; Elohim Gibor, the warlike god form of Geburah; Adonai ha'Aretz, the God-form who rules earthly matters and concerns; yet these are understood to be different aspects of the same deity. If man was created in God's image, we can expect the same diversity within ourselves.
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Date: 2003-11-03 07:15 am (UTC)The very "disorder" itself is considered by some to be a hoax, which really pisses me off. The people who come up with this are the same people who write books that says recovered memories are all lies, when amnesia of traumatic events is something that has been recorded for hundreds of years. They also want to pretend childhood abuse doesn't exist, which leads me to believe that they are either trying to hide something (either their own abusiveness or their past experiences they cannot admit to) or they cannot for whatever reason believe the very common tragedy of abuse that impacts so many families and children.
But even beyond the authorized psychiatric view of what the mind "should" be - I don't think people are as singular as they believe. RAW refers to himself in much of his writing by various names, depending on which aspect of himself he was exhibiting at the time: The Skeptic; The Scientist; The Mystic. The Qabalah teaches that there is one god, yet s/he is referred to by a multitude of names depending on the aspect s/he is showing or the capacity in which s/he is moving/acting: there is EHEIEH, the Creator or the I AM; Elohim Gibor, the warlike god form of Geburah; Adonai ha'Aretz, the God-form who rules earthly matters and concerns; yet these are understood to be different aspects of the same deity. If man was created in God's image, we can expect the same diversity within ourselves.