Character: Dr. Sayle

- Have you ever heard about the splitting of consciousness or depersonalization?
- What is it?
- A condition in which one body can live several completely different personalities. In American psychiatry, the disease known as dissociative identity disorder. Such cases are first described two centuries ago. It usually starts-those experienced in childhood trauma. The patient tries to cut off bad memories and is fenced off from them, making up another "I". Sometimes these "me" sometimes a great many.
And they all know each other?
- Sometimes. And sometimes not. Tony Lett obviously familiar. Ashley obviously has no idea about their existence. "Alternates" appear because his "I" is unable to endure mental anguish and emotional pain. It is a peculiar way to escape from reality. Every time the patient takes another shock or shock, can be born a new identity. Such "I" can differ dramatically from each other. Some silly, others have a brilliant mind. They even speak different languages and have diverse tastes.
And... does it happen often?
- Some researchers claim that one percent of the population suffers from splitting of consciousness, and in psychiatric hospitals these patients are approximately 20 percent.
But Ashley seemed perfectly normal, ' said David.
- Such people are quite normal, until the stage comes another alien "I". They work, raise children, marry, marry, in short, leading a normal life, but the substitution can occur at any moment. Alien "I" is the host body for an hour, a day or even a few weeks, and then the person can lose memory, sense of time, to do strange things, which in life would have thought in the normal state.