How to know if my child has a double personality

A double personality disorder can be caused by the effect of severe trauma during early childhood or by physical, sexual or emotional abuse. Most people may experience a mild personality dissociation that is like daydreaming or mentally lost while you are working on something, and this may be totally normal. However, when dissociative identity disorder or double personality occurs in a serious way, a mental process appears where there is a lack of connection between thoughts, memories, feelings, actions or the sense of a person's identity.

The double personality can be derived from a trauma since it is thought to be a survival mechanism. The person, in this case the children, literally dissociates himself from a situation or experience that is too violent, traumatic or painful to assimilate with the conscious self. How to know if my child has a double personality The double personality disorder is characterized by the presence of two or more different identities or parties

, different personality states that continuously have power over the person's behavior. But there are also some signs that it is worth paying attention to identify if a child may have double personality and take it to the specialist to assess him:

1. Inability to remember key personal information, seems memory deficit.

2. Highly differentiated memory variationsthat fluctuate with a split personality.

3. They appear different identities that have the same age, sex or race.

4. Each identity has its own postures, gestures and manner of speaking. 5. Sometimes the identity can be an animal or someone imaginary. When to seek the help of a professional in the face of symptoms of double personality

When each identity is revealed and controls the behavior of the child, this fact is called 'commutation' and can take from seconds, minutes and even whole days. In addition to the signals described above, it is also necessary to take into account

some symptoms to sound the alarms and seek the help of a professional:

1. Depression and suicidal tendencies.

2. Mood changes. 3. Sleep disorders.

4. Anxiety, phobias or panic attacks.

5. Compulsions or rituals.

6. Psychotic behaviors such as auditory or visual hallucinations.

7. Eating disorders.

8. Headache, amnesia and loss of time.

9. Trances or out-of-body experiences.

10. Self violence.

A child with a double personality can show behaviors that he would not normally do or say things that have nothing to do with his personality or way of being ... he feels compelled to do so. It's like being the passenger in a foreign body and they think they have no choice.