This week's episode has changed the way I talk to myself.

It's changed the way I think about taking care of my own mind.

It has made a very real and very unexpected and very positive change.

Stick around and it might do the same for you.

It's Depression Mode. I'm John Moe. I'm glad you're here.

Dissociative identity disorder, or DID, is a disorder where there are two or more personality states within the same person. It's generally brought on by acute childhood trauma, used to be called multiple personality

disorder.

Hollywood loves D.I.D.

Joanne Woodward in Three Faces of Eve from 1957.

Two of them are named Eve, one's name Jane.

Sally Field gets 13 so-called altars in the 1976 TV movie Sybil,

remade in 2007 with Jessica Lang. In Split from 2016, James McAvoy has 24 personalities,

inflation, I guess. Edward Norton is a real veteran of the genre, primal fear in 1996,

and Fight Club in 1999, both D-I-D. Identity is a movie starring John Cusack, 2003. It's known for

being a really bad and very stupid movie that also gets tons of things wrong about D.D.

And it's not hard to see why filmmakers go to D.D. so often. You have a built-in plot twist.

See, it's not the real person who did it. It was their alternate personality. That's why they don't remember.

It's like an evil twin, but you don't need the eye patch.

And actors, I'm sure, are drawn to the roles because you get to show off your versatility,

and often you get to really ham it up, really chew the scenery.

James McEvoy in Split should have won an Oscar for most acting.

As common as DID is in the movies, it's considered actually very

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