Alternate Personalities

Personalities, which are identified as the very core of the human race are accepted and written to reflect that we all have only one. Therefore, the possibility of alternate personalities is seen as not normal, and diagnosed as needing therapy or institutionalized for mental illness. Theory is often times seen as two very different and controversial sides. The first is that an individual is made up of only one personality to fulfill one's life and heart, where the other side is that of two or more personalities exist to complete the same life and heart. Gillett, D. (1997) states, " Some therapists and many of the people involved in the MPD movement tend to treat MPD as being a definite instance of several persons with distinct identities inhabiting one body. Others deny that there could be any situation with this kind of metaphysical specification. This controversial belief is what I call the "full-blooded" view of MPD, and it arises, as do the other puzzles, in relation to certain philosophical theories of the mind." (para. 16) We are all made up of many personalities, thoughts and feelings. To state that we all only have one personality is not correct; as one must look at all aspects that alternate personalities do and can exist. We must embrace, and look forward to understanding the need and power of the multiply that can be part of an individual's life. We need to see each possible multiply as stable and accepted as part of today's societies and accepted as such. Multiple personalities continue to mold themselves to be what is accepted as morally correct to be successful in all we do. By doing this they do, in fact, continue to hide as being part of the world we see only as normal, as they will continue to be seen as abnormal.

Historically, the theory of our thought process is a human that claims to have alternate personalities, can and will be seen as mentally incapacitated and not valued in society. The ethical side of this issue that exists has strong views involving many personal choices. I will create, and show the views of the virtue theory, with the thought of only doing right and wrong in one's life and goals. The other view and theory will be that of emotivism involving the feelings of the individual and understanding their process and goals. I know and have experienced the involvement of an individual who has alternate personalities. I have followed and spent time talking to and understand each multiples needs and desires to be part of one's life and daily activities. I will show, and agree to the emotivism theory that a person can and should be loved and respected with their feelings and thoughts, and treated as each as an individual separately but one complete individual. Each part of the multiplies can, and does make up the individual to be completing rounded and able to function daily , by accepting their existence and positive impact they have in their lives. Pickard, H. (2011) states, "

A. An enduring pattern of experience and behavior that deviates markedly from the expectations of an individual's culture. This pattern is manifested in two (or more) of the following areas:

1. Cognition (i.e., ways of perceiving and interpreting self, other people, and events);

2. Affectivity (i.e., the range, intensity, liability, and appropriateness of emotional response);

3. Interpersonal functioning; and

4. Impulse control.

B. The enduring pattern is inflexible and pervasive across a broad range of personal and social situations.

C. The enduring pattern leads to clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.

D. The pattern is stable and of long duration, and its onset can be traced back at least to adolescence or early adulthood.

E. The enduring pattern is not better accounted for as a manifestation or consequence of another mental disorder.

F. The enduring pattern is not due to the direct physiological effects of a substance (e.g., a drug of abuse, a medication) or a general medical condition (e.g., head trauma)" (para. 1) To look at each pattern that can create an alternate personality, one can only understand that many individuals can and do have existence of these, and wish to embrace the reality of each. Individuals can and do have patterns and situations in their current or past lives that have caused the multiples to emerge and then intertwine with his or her life and the core of their personality. The individuals with multiplies find that trauma, abuse or tram antic events caused can bring forth the multiply to protect, love, embrace them in their lives and existence.

The theory of virtue of right and wrong, does and will close the door to those who are, in fact, experiencing, and do live the life of multiple personalities. These individuals hide and deny the growth and power a multiply can bring into their lives, by bringing balance into all the choices and path they will make. Braude, S. (1995) writes, "Hinshelwood's interesting speculations concern an alleged "spreading, even a relocation of identity," and he argues that they challenge the received view that persons are "stable 'atomic' entities." According to Hinshelwood, "we commonly assume that the boundary to the person--somatic, social and psychological--is well defined." But I wonder, first of all, how widespread that view is. Most people, of course, do not have clearly articulable views about personal identity. But in contexts where issues arise concerning moral responsibility for one's actions, people seem tacitly to assume that--in some respects, at least--identity is anything but stable." (para. 2). Society does not accept, or acknowledge the possibility that we can, and in fact, at times have more than one personality. Upbringing has always been subjective that when one identifies with multiply personalities the thoughts and feelings are wrong, and they need to become right to be accepted. The growth and success of an individual with such personalities will not be complete in life, and they will have, in fact, been subject to abuse and put away in institutions to be studied and drugged. They are not accepted or the personalities identified as separate individuals with a contributing factor to the life of the male or female they exist in. Legally, the system questions, and only derives that; in fact, this is wrong and therefore, cannot be proven or accepted. Legally, and morally multiplies are not accepted and put in the state of the unreal and unstable emotional table. Shuman, D.