Psyche Out

Well, the big story on CBS Sunday Morning yesterday was the furor among the psychological/psychiatric community as to whether DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder) exists or not. This is the malady once known (and still known in some quarters) as Multiple Personality Disorder, or Robin Williams Syndrome.

Doctors in favor of labeling this disorder an official diagnosis point out that it's rarely spotted outside North America. Equally vocal are the doctors on the other side, who point out that the case loads for doctors treating this problem soar right after movies such as "The Three Faces of Eve," "Sybil," and "Revolutionary Road" come out. They also feel that many people presenting at therapists' offices under a state of hysteria are more suggestible than most...so if the doctor says, "Do you have more than one personality, by any chance?" the answer that takes the patient down the hall for much more therapy is a firm "You betcha!"

But, back to those who think it's for the real, they state that they see people with all these people inside of them, and they don't want them there, so whaddya gonna do?

I don't know what the answer is. I'm of two minds about the whole thing.