DID or MPD – 3 questions my research doesn answer!?
to question 2 no. You can not randomly develop DID. And the person would not have developed it at age 19. DID is developed typically during the earliest years from ages up to 5 years old. He may not have been diagnosed or become aware of the problem till he was older but the condition would have stemmed from early trauma and started many years prior to 19. DID is now understood as a severe dissociative disorder. Where the abuse was early and continuous creating DID at the farthest spectrum of dissociative disorders. If you research dissociative disorders in general you will learn more about how DID actually works. 1- I do beleive that the alter brian would have to in some way be aware of the feelings of the host in order for him to be triggered by Tims feelings into being in control. However one of the key features of DID is loss of time, loss of memory, finding things you never wrote but are in your handwriting, people who swear they know you but youve never met. This indicates a lack
