Coming From Within: A family dealing with multiple personality disorder

finding out in your late thirties that you have other personalities that come out and take over, can be overwhelming for a person. It doesn't end there. Family and friends are eventually brought into the situation whether they have awareness or not. Most people chalk it up to the person just being a bit weird all the way to being bipolar. Unless the personalities reveal themselves, no one will know their secret.Each person who has multiple personality disorder, or as it's now called, dissociative identity disorder, the personalities are different. The age ranges, gender, tasks, and attitudes are unique to the main person, known as the host. There are those that see this as a person being crazy and not as a surviving mechanism. Some even feel a person is making it up for attention. Trust me, it's not the kind of attention anyone I know would wish for.Having this disorder makes it difficult for relationships to last for long periods.