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What Can Identity Confusion, Creating Many Characters To Identify Oneself Indicate?

i have a friend suffering from identity confusion. she resorts to creating several characters to identify what she is feeling. each character has its one likes and dislikes and people it trusts. she usually has a smooth change in between characters but this time the change isn t going smoothly. i read what DID is but i found the symptoms too extreme in describing her case. she doesn t have a memory problem in remembering what each character did. i have tried to advice her to seek professional help but due to personal reasons she cannot seek this help. i wanted to ask if you can give me a clearer image of her case and how i can help her through the change and make it more smooth. she has been living through her characters for a long time and her not knowing who she is now is one of the main reasons of her confusion and frustration. she is disgusted by herself and sees this as not normal. please help
Tue, 10 Mar 2020
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Hello,

There are various psychiatric disorders with personality alteration where one gets multiple parameters of self identity in various situations and often not possible to fix to one particular type. There can be underlying pathology involving dominant hemisphere with hippocampus or other vital structure processing the recent and past memories events. However, either it is content or type of though disorder has to be evaluated with treating psychiatrist. Usual handling needs anti psychotic, behavior changes, life style modifications, supportive peer groups and care.

Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.

Regards,
Dr. Bhagyesh V. Patel, General Surgeon
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What Can Identity Confusion, Creating Many Characters To Identify Oneself Indicate?

Hello, There are various psychiatric disorders with personality alteration where one gets multiple parameters of self identity in various situations and often not possible to fix to one particular type. There can be underlying pathology involving dominant hemisphere with hippocampus or other vital structure processing the recent and past memories events. However, either it is content or type of though disorder has to be evaluated with treating psychiatrist. Usual handling needs anti psychotic, behavior changes, life style modifications, supportive peer groups and care. Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further. Regards, Dr. Bhagyesh V. Patel, General Surgeon