When
I was fourteen, I picked up a book that spoke about ‘multiple-personality
disorder’ – at that particular moment in time, I had never delved into the confirms
of hidden personalities with a one mind, one bodied individual, with a varying
emotionally shape-shifting presence.
This
was a true-life account of what happened to this little girl that learnt to
emotionally shape-shift to hide the violent nature of her home existence – a
drunk of a father and an emotionally, verbally abusive mother. Thus, she
created personalities that will hide her real self and take over in mentally
and emotionally overwhelming situations.
Does
this notion apply to individuals who create a surreal environment as an
escapism from their daily demanding and strenuous lives? Do people who
overindulge in the name of fun, hence forget or claim to have forgotten what
happened the previous day anecdotes of ‘multiple-personality disorder’?
Its
seems that more and more people are prone to indulge in inappropriate behaviour
as an escapism to this globosely mentally and emotionally overwhelming
situations of everyday living.
Some
people hide the fact that they have personalities that makes them pinchers,
only to psychologically shape-shift at a secretive moment, or when the time to
pinch arrives. Others find themselves in clothes which are meant for the other
sex. Others hide the fact that they are sex maniacs, who indulge in romps of
sexual activity without throwing a caution to the wind – when they get caught,
it’s all denial: “It was the other person that did it, not me.” When in actual
fact the tell-tale signs of putting the hand in the cookie-jar are right there,
there in front of them.
The
most fascinating part about this ‘multiple-personality’ psyche, is the link
between traditional norms of mysticism and one’s ability to go into a trans-state,
therefore allowing ancestral spirits to communicate with the living through an
individual’s body. Scholar of psychology claim that this ability to commune
with the dead as a mere symptom of ‘mental debilitation’ or ‘mental disease’
i.e. schizophrenia.
Is
spiritual visitation part of this ‘multiple-personality’ accretion to the
madness of this world and humanity’s assumptions of finding an unknown place to
hide? A representation of death.
A legion
of thought framework, coupled by a traumatic experience can lead an individual’s neurological pathways to criss-cross and find an escapism within its self – an
alternate personality. As to whether natural mischief can be accounted to ‘multiple-personality
disorder’ that is another hypothesis – in knowing or not knowing.
With
all the indifference that has overwhelmed the world and destroyed people’s
lives – one could not help but wonder if people forget who they are – psychologically
shape-shift, only wake up to realise what they’ve done.
WORD
TO A NEW PERSONALITY REVOLUTION
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