Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) is an emotional illness which can be characterized by the presence of two or more personalities or identities which are present and alternately take control of an individual. Each personality has its own unique style of viewing and understanding the world. The person also experiences memory loss that is too extensive to be explained by ordinary forgetfulness. It is a disorder characterized by one identity that is split into two rather then two separate personalities. DID was previously called Multiple Personality Disorder but was changed to reflect a more clearer understanding of the disorder. People suffering from this disorder experience a change in their personality in a matter of only a few seconds. Patients then act like completely different people then they are in reality, the patients then imitate a characteristic or a behavioral trait of the person they think they are. Sometimes patients can undergo an alter in personality where they have change of genders, sexual orientation, ages or even nationalities. Some people change to something that is not even human; they can alter to a spiritual fore, different animals and sometimes to even extraterrestrial life force. Generally people suffering from this disorder can have from two to ten different personalities but in some cases there have been as many as some hundreds.
Some of the common symptoms that patients suffering from DID experience is usually loss of memory in form of major chunks, they do not remember things that happened in their lives over an extended period of time or between periods of time. Depersonalization is another symptom where the patient feels as if their body is getting dissolved, sometimes they feel an outer-body experience and watching something happening to themselves but have no control over their body or their actions, sometimes they can also feel as if their body is not real and is changing shape, size, color etc. Patients typically lose time,...