I took the quiz, but a lot of the choices squicked me out. Not your fault. I just hate the shrink worldview. I/we am/are legion, but *NOT* fractured. Over the years I have come to feel that people who have no conscious awareness of plurality within are at one end of a spectrum & those with myriad distinct persons within are at the other end. There also appears to be a second axis, perpendicular to the first with internal peace at one end and internal strife at the other.
Although I sure have no proof of this, I feel the population distribution along both axes to be a Bell-shaped curve. Because of shrink-induced social stigma, many pretend they are one person internally, when they are not. Depression (imo) can easily come from repression of one or more of those living within. I strongly feel there is no correlation between one's perceptions of internal persons and so-called "mental illness". However, I do feel that being at war with oneself is perhaps prone to make it very hard to be functional, or love oneself.
While I have not yet had the opportunity to get to know the man personally, I am inclined to speculate that perhaps Bush, our prez, suffers from having no internal dialogs, and therefore no hesitancy about doing amazingly stupid shit -- whereas I, in my plurality, am far more likely to examine options from many different angles, change my position several times, and then proceed from a perspective of unanimity or at least a clear consensus, subject to later revision.
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Although I sure have no proof of this, I feel the population distribution along both axes to be a Bell-shaped curve. Because of shrink-induced social stigma, many pretend they are one person internally, when they are not. Depression (imo) can easily come from repression of one or more of those living within. I strongly feel there is no correlation between one's perceptions of internal persons and so-called "mental illness". However, I do feel that being at war with oneself is perhaps prone to make it very hard to be functional, or love oneself.
While I have not yet had the opportunity to get to know the man personally, I am inclined to speculate that perhaps Bush, our prez, suffers from having no internal dialogs, and therefore no hesitancy about doing amazingly stupid shit -- whereas I, in my plurality, am far more likely to examine options from many different angles, change my position several times, and then proceed from a perspective of unanimity or at least a clear consensus, subject to later revision.