I've been researching into Split personality disorder. There
is a documentary on youtube which follows the life of a 38 year old woman,
Helen, who has seven different alter egos that she switches into. Once she has
switched into a character and then switched back as herself (Helen) she has no
idea what has just happened to her or what she did -yet she can hear all seven
of their voices in her head. This disorder is a result of sever abuse as a
child- sexual, emotional and mental. The
characters are created as a coping method and portray different parts of her.
For example she mainly switches to young characters (ages 10, 6, 5) as she was
deprived of a childhood.
After watching this documentary, I don’t feel this condition
is suitable for Hero as:
- She hasn't suffered any extreme abuse (if so, we would have to fit this in as a subplot)
- We wanted to show two sides to her personality e.g. loving, sweet and innocent… in contrast to angry and manipulative. Split personality disorder is where people become completely different characters/personas and these aren’t necessarily negative e.g. Helen could switch from being herself to a 10 year old boy!
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