PROMENA OF THE EVERYMAN

Diagnosis (as an introduction to the topic)

Personality is a concept developed to reflect the social nature of a person, consider him as a subject of sociocultural life, define him as a bearer of an individual principle, self-revealing in the context of social relations, communication and objective activity. “Personality” can be understood either as a human individual as a subject of relationships and conscious activity (“person” in the broad sense of the word), or as a stable system of socially significant traits that characterize an individual as a member of a particular society or community. Although these two concepts - face as the integrity of a person (Latin persona) and personality as his social and psychological appearance (Latin personalitas) - are terminologically quite distinguishable, they are sometimes used as synonyms.

Dissociative identity disorder (also used as diagnoses of multiple personality disorder, multiple personality disorder, split personality) is a very rare mental disorder from the group of dissociative disorders in which a person’s personality is divided, and it seems that several different personalities (or, in other terminology, ego states) exist in the body of one person. At the same time, at certain moments a “switching” occurs in a person, and one personality replaces another. These “personalities” may have different gender, age, nationality, temperament, mental abilities, worldview, and react differently to the same situations. After the “switch,” the currently active personality cannot remember what happened while the other personality was active.

The causes of this disorder are severe emotional trauma in early childhood and repeated extreme physical, sexual or emotional abuse. This disorder is an extreme manifestation of dissociation - a psychological defense mechanism in which a person begins to perceive what is happening to him as if it were happening to someone else. This mechanism is useful because it allows a person to protect himself from excessive, intolerable emotions, but in cases of excessive activation of this mechanism, dissociative disorders appear. Contrary to popular belief, dissociative disorders are not associated with schizophrenia.

Due to the great rarity of this disease, the very existence of dissociative identity disorder has long been questioned.

Dissociative identity disorder is diagnosed if the following 4 criteria are true:

1. The patient has two or more distinguishable identities or personal states, and each of them has a stable model of worldview, its own worldview and attitude to the surrounding reality.

2. At least two of these identities alternately seize control of the patient's behavior.

3. The patient cannot remember important information about himself, and this goes far beyond ordinary forgetfulness.

4. This condition did not occur as a result of the use of alcohol, drugs, other toxic substances, or from a disease (for example, with a complex partial attack). In children, it is also important not to confuse these symptoms with playing with an imaginary friend or with other games using fantasy.

Despite the emergence of new personalities, the basic personality, bearing the person’s original first and last name, remains among them. The number of personalities within a person can be large and grow over the years. This is mainly due to the fact that a person unconsciously develops new personalities within himself that could help him better cope with certain situations. So, if at the beginning of treatment the psychotherapist usually diagnoses 2-4 personalities, then during the course of treatment another 10-12 are identified. Sometimes the number of individuals exceeds a hundred.

Personalities have different names, different ways of speaking and gesticulating, different facial expressions, gait and even handwriting.

Usually the person is not aware of the presence of other persons in the body.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is one of the most famous examples of characters with multiple personality disorder in fiction.

Multiple personality as a healthy state.

Some people, including those who self-identify as having multiple personality, believe that the condition may not be a disorder, but a natural variation of human consciousness that has nothing to do with dissociation. One of the staunch supporters of this version is Trudy Chase, author of the bestseller “When Rabbit Howls.” While she acknowledges that in her case, multiple personalities resulted from violence, she also claims that her personalities refused to be integrated and live together as a collective.

I am convinced that this is a small mental defect that reveals the unknown unconscious work of our brain and allows us to form the correct attitude towards what is happening in our lives.

Unlike other cases. I was aware of the presence of all 8 personalities, including my own. All their experiences were incredibly interesting to me. Sometimes we even had to emphasize important aspects, arm ourselves with them and put them into action.

On a beautiful frosty morning, blinded by the blue of the sky and the brightness of the rays of the sun, looking at that small piece of the center of Moscow, which opens from the windows of an old house in Zamoskvorechye, with a gaze hungry for wondrous beauty, I once again caught myself thinking: EVERYTHING SHOULD BE WRONG...

Wrong #1:

Carelessly cover the bed, hastily prepare a forced bachelor's breakfast, consume it, while still having time to smoke a few cigarettes, do a little warm-up, and after pouring a cold shower over your warm body, sit down at your laptop and start frantically surfing the Internet and spontaneously commenting and liking content...

Wrong #2:

Open the window. Spit a warm clot of a mixture of saliva and mucus into the dirty and cold atmosphere of the capital. Follow with your eyes and make sure that the spit landed exactly in the chimney of the building below. Close the window and fall back into bed to finish your dreams.

Wrong #3:

Just by opening your eyes slightly and finding yourself in the daylight, you immediately fill all the corners of your consciousness with extremely important thoughts: urgently get a manicure, pedicure, hairstyle, hair removal in the bikini area and pull on a provocative outfit, rush headlong to a party where they, men... and they will feed and dance and give gifts and maybe satisfy other needs.

Wrong #4:

Alarm clock... Damn it. Screw the sounds. It's Saturday. But principles take their toll. The importance of things is off the charts. Interference on the way to the goal is like a simple breeze that carries dust and leaves through the gateways of Moscow. Quickly discuss the meeting plan. Refresh the infographic data from the business plan. A couple of clouds of expensive perfume. A perfectly fitting suit and stylish shoes. And calmly going down the elevator and fiddling with the keys to the Jaguar, anticipating a phenomenal return on the deal.

Wrong #5:

“Dad, dad, dad! Mom said that she is busy today because... she has a headache and that you are going to the zoo with me.” Eh... Fishing and gatherings with friends in the garage pub are over. Damn, it’s only 7:00 in the morning... Okay, let’s get up, get ready and go. The sooner I satisfy my child’s insatiable thirst for knowledge, the sooner I will get out to my comrades.

Wrong #6:

Morning prayer. Praise the Lord for giving me another day! Prayer to St. Nicholas, the wonderworker and saint, to be lucky enough to finish today what was so disgusting yesterday. Prayer before breakfast, prayer after, prayer during... Reading sacred texts. Contemplation of icons and rapid repentance of all sins. I honor and love our Lord. I'm a saint.

Wrong #7:

Volume!!! Let's get up). It sounds like Addis Ababa. Oh, brother, I feel sad somehow today. I would be completely drunk, but it would flow from my ears. I would like to go somewhere, but all the roads hurt. Should I call doctors to the house of the buffoons? Yo!!! Oh, brother, I’m sad and lonely. The cuckoo sticks out of the clock on the wall. There is no one here except all of us and God. Who is sad now just like me... I wish I could drive away that sadness, but it doesn’t go away. Follows on my heels like a dog. I want to smoke, but in my garden there are only thistles and weeds with quinoa. Yo!!!

Wrong #8:

I close the curtains. Sunlight hurts my eyes. Silently I comprehend instantly and multiple experiences. As always, I look forward with interest to further chains of events and experiences. Another blurring of personality inevitably took place...

If you abstract yourself and do not take into account the clinical diagnosis of the story, but simply try on the experience of each of the individuals in question, you can recognize yourself and your acquaintances, movie characters and favorite books. What happens in your mind every day when you wake up? What principles are you driven by? How is your day going? Who or what influences your decisions?

After all, it is upon awakening that you can find the truth in all your judgments because... The subconscious mind actively works during our sleep and tells us ideal and true models of behavior that do not depend on addictions, phobias and manias...

The functionality of the human subconscious is so intangible, unproven and inexplicable that it is difficult to even imagine where its limits could end - most of all, that they do not exist at all. Just imagine that each of us, ideally, should now be able to directly read information from the energy field of the Earth, which allows us to solve and even accurately imagine any riddles or events that have ever occurred on our planet, without learning to understand all kinds of sciences and even see exactly everything to which exactly certain current actions can lead us in the future. And it is completely incomprehensible why today the overwhelming majority of people almost completely lose the ability to interact with all these subconscious processes, because by all indications, absolutely each of us from childhood should be able to work with them without any obstacles or “intermediaries.” But, unfortunately, today everything is happening the other way around, and this relationship only occasionally manifests itself in the form of indirect, vague and unfounded clues (intuition and the like), and even then, only in the most emotional moments of life. And yet, although we are not aware of much and are not able to completely control it, we can make all these processes work for us. Even in a dream, the subconscious can change our lifestyle and each of us has the right to take advantage of this.

Any discovery or work of art is the same work of the subconscious, which has found the necessary information or launched a new process of searching for answers to the necessary questions. If we directly turn to the unconscious, then any question and any intention will not remain completely unresolved, even the most sophisticated ideas will certainly find a response in the universe, but the question is different - will we be able to perceive, realize, hear, understand them after that, because the process of mutual exchange is almost completely blocked by the negative side of our consciousness. And yet, quite often, the answers still make their way to people. If we read about the most famous inventors, we learn for ourselves that each of their great discoveries came to them as an insight, as an accident, or during a dream. All the ideas came to them completely unexpectedly and mostly at the moment when they were no longer thinking about the task at hand. But before that, they had to devote a lot of their energy to thinking and searching for answers, which is how they launched subconscious processes. But notice that during their research and reflection, answers to difficult questions did not appear. They came at a completely different time and completely out of nowhere. An unfounded idea simply appeared in their thoughts, which later turned out to be exactly the desired answer, over which they racked their brains to no avail. This process was very well manifested in the way Thomas Edison or Albert Einstein worked on their inventions. They knew the main secrets of this process and used it effectively, as they themselves confirmed. The same applies to works of art - muse, inspiration, and so on and so forth.

If we want to change our lifestyle, we need to radically change our thoughts, which form our beliefs. Beliefs are what guide our subconscious. If we are sure that we are sick and every day we are getting worse, our subconscious will begin to block the healing functions of the body and suppress the immune system. If, on the contrary, we are sure that every moment we are getting better and better, then day and night our body will recover and heal. No matter what we are sick with, in any case we will be absolutely healthy if we are completely convinced of this.

No matter how our day begins, it will continue because of how we started it. Planning and programming occurs on a subconscious level. To understand this and most importantly manage it, you need to understand the importance of all the factors influencing the process.

Mother nature gave you one more day. 30 seconds. The flight is normal. All systems work (or not all). What do you invest in this day? What do you want to receive, achieve, understand, do?

Yes, everyone has their own goal, their own aspirations. Your own baggage of knowledge and canons of upbringing. But for everyone, the day starts the same. It doesn't matter who you are. Man or woman. Successful businessman or worker. You wake up, throw away the veil of Morpheus, and those first moments of communication with a new day form your own unique picture for each of us.

Our task is only to follow our intentions, listen to ourselves, our loved ones, friends, colleagues, since at these moments they, just like you, produce the results of the work of the subconscious during sleep. Do not forget that our existence consists of such daily awakenings. And maybe one day you wake up and start a new LIFE!