When We Change Our Identity Essay

We all have different sides to us that change when we’re around family, friends, co-workers or even our significant other. But which one of those is the real us? Maybe it’s none of those; maybe it’s who we are when we’re alone. When we’re surrounded by certain people our personality shifts, not a significant amount, but we change. We can be calm, quite, goody two shoes with family and co-workers, but with friends we’re the craziest, most daring one in the group, and then with our significant other we can be a little bit of both, or shy and relaxed. Either way we shift personalities, but what if instead of a change of personality we changed our entire identity. I’m saying name, race, age, language spoke, walk, talk; everything was an entirely different person. One minute I 'm Elizabeth from a small town in Idaho going to college and then I’m a French artist that’s in her 30’s with four kids and a husband or I’m back to the fifth grade talking about how …show more content…
It depends on their personality as well. There’s a quote that goes, “I have three sides: the quiet and sweet side, the fun and crazy side. And the side you never want to see.” That was said by someone who was not diagnosed with multiple personalities. This tells us that everyone has a different personality just as those who are diagnosed with the disorder. It may not be drastic like the cases that have been studied, but they’re still there. In an article written by WebMD, it states, “. . . there 's an average of two to four personalities present when the patient is initially diagnosed…” Two to four personalities are used to diagnose dissociative identity disorder, so does that mean we all have a mild case? “…then there 's an average of 13 to 15 personalities that can become known over the course of treatment. While unusual, there have been instances of dissociative identity disorder with more than 100 personalities. .