Question:

Why are you pushing this fake s***? Multiple personalities aren’t real.—Jake

Answer:

Mental health professionals have diagnosed people having multiple personalities long before Sister Bertrille tossed aside her cornette and played Sybil on TV. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders has included multiple personalities in one form or another since 1952. Sure, mental health professionals once classified it under “hysteria” and later called it “multiple personality disorder,” but it was—and remains—a very real diagnosis.

In 1980, the DSM changed the name from Multiple Personality Disorder to Dissociative Identity Disorder.

So, to burst the bubble you live in, the Earth isn’t flat, the Moon isn’t made from cheese, Trump didn’t win the 2000 presidential election, and multiple personalities are real. 

I’llQuestion:

Why are you pushing this fake s***? Multiple personalities aren’t real.—Jake, Columbus, Ohio

Answer:

Oh, Karen, aren’t you precious? I’ll educate you on this, but I’ll have to use words with more than one syllable.

Mental health professionals have diagnosed people having multiple personalities long before Sister Bertrille tossed aside her cornette and played Sybil on TV. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders has included multiple personalities in one form or another since 1952. Sure, mental health professionals once classified it under “hysteria” and later called it “multiple personality disorder,” but it was—and remains—a very real diagnosis.

In 1980, the DSM changed the name from Multiple Personality Disorder to Dissociative Identity Disorder.

So, to burst the bubble you live in, the Earth isn’t flat, the Moon isn’t made from cheese, Trump didn’t win the 2000 presidential election, and multiple personalities are real.