Do you give sh*t about what others think of you?

[nolabear]

75. Well, yes and no, mostly no.

Schizophrenia is a disease of the brain. Its manifestations might well show up in variations on the sufferers hope and fear. But it can get a long way from anything we understand, too. Hallucinations do reflect reality in that you likely won't hallucinate anything you have never seen. But they can be dreamlike and hard to comprehend.

Multiple Personality Disorder, or Dissociative Identity Disorder is thought to be a fragmenting of the mind in the face of unabsorbable trauma. The trauma is contained in bits, handled by bits, that if they were all connected without enough safety and treatment to make it bearable, would possibly not function at all, i.e. catatonia or suicide or complete breakdown. There's a whole lot of disagreement about it, but I believe it. And those bits probably do reflect hopes and fears--certainly fears, and I think maybe everything that dares to exist at all reflects hope.

In my previous post the "people" aren't as powerful in the form that resembles the originals themselves as they are in those unconscious identifications and rebellions and such.

Just my two cents.