How do you know if you have split personality?

Answer 1

Answer A psychologist or a trained and experienced clinical social worker should be able to do an assessment that includes this kind of issue. There are paper-pencil inventories that can help in the assessment process. Your PCP (primary care physician) should be able to refer you to someone. This is better than listing a bunch of symptoms/symptom categories and leaving you with uncomfortable doubts. Answer True split personality is due to Dissociative Identity Disorder, so rare in its true form that many argue that it doesn't actually exist. A real case of DID is a person who displays two or more distinct personalities with their own identity and their own different way of interacting with their environment. However it also includes the person not being able to remember 'being' their alternate personality; they have no consciousness of it. It has become a very stylized sort of thing, especially due to movies, which is why there is some controversy of whether it really exists except in a couple cases of severe emotional trauma. Most people of course, mistakenly call split personality disorder 'schizophrenia', which is a condition in which the person may have hallucinations ("hearing voices") that could be interpreted as having some one other than yourself in your head, or an "alternate personality". However these hallucinations are caused by dysfunctional brain chemistry and are entirely out of the control of the person suffering from the disorder.

Finally, many people feel two ways about an issue; this is the inevitable duality of human existence. I myself have felt this way to the point where I argued with myself out loud, but both sides were "me". Sometimes in times of great moral ambiguity or stress we may talk to ourselves, interacting with both worldviews. But it's just like even though we have a left and right brain that both interact with each other despite having different functions, it does not mean that we are two different people.

Answer 2

• Obviously without knowing you one could not label you with a split personality. All people go through mood changes caused by hormones throughout their lives and it may seem like the person has a split personality. Depression or traumas in life such a rape; seeing a crime committed; car accidents that are severe, etc., can cause a person to appear to have a split personality. Bipolar can cause a split personality; the person may be upbeat one day and very depressed and moody and sometimes violent another day. Society as a whole could actually be deemed with a split personality because they become chameleons (this means to act the way they feel other people want them to act at different circumstances in their life.)

Answer 3

Well, one day they act like themselves, and another day they act like some body else.