Dissociative identity disorder.

Once called Multiple Personality Disorder,

is a disorder in which a person alternates between one or more alternate personalities

that function with separate memory and awareness and

adapt with amnesia between them.

The first detailed account of the ID can be traced back to 1791 when a German woman began speaking perfect French and behaving like a French aristocrat,

despite never having learned French or even having been to France.

Although appearing extremely rare to the general public, it's estimated that between 1 to 3 percent of the global population may have this disorder.

My name's Anthony Padilla, and today I'm going to be sitting down with people who dissociate into fragmented identities

to learn the truth behind this heavily misunderstood disorder.

Does the ID access hidden capabilities and skills within the brain, allowing people to harness

brain power in a way others simply aren't capable of?

Or does it keep them feeling bogged down and restricted from participating in normality?

Are they openly proud of their disorder?

Or has the media's portrayal of DID, forced them to live a life of alienation and solitude, too worried of what their presence

will unleash and others.

Hi, Amanda.

Hi, the Redwoods.

Hey!

NIN.

Hi.

Thank you so much for coming out and teaching me about the wondrous world of dissociative identity disorder.

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