Multiple Personalities and Cyber Sex

Re: our point #6 - "Psychologically, we have submitted that our characters are not mere circumscribed manifestations of D&D rules in particular acts of literary creation, but that we are actually a multiple personality, not in a disordered sense but as a many-minds creative commune."

Formerly multiple personalities were classified as (http://allpsych.com/journal/did.html) Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), sometimes referred to as Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD).  This analysis saw dissociation as a disorder in which a person becomes seperated from reality. Having multiple personalities was seen as a rare condition of mostly female patients with alternate personalities splitting off from the host in early childhood for which the goal of treatment was integration of her fractured personalities that should be treated by hypnotherapy or  medications and conculuded that multiple personalities were an under-diagnosed defense mechanism against abuse.

Yet  psychiatrists of a Jungian persuasion have taken a positive perspective (http://futurepositive.synearth.net/2002/11/24)  that the psyche is a complex homeostatic system for which Jung's model provides an integrative descriptive language which is very useful in discussing the wholeness of human personality, although perhaps its mythological references often sound archaic to modern readers. Jung's description transcends the neuromolecular language available to psychoneurology affirming the reality of the psyche's enormous complexity that seeks to obey its archetypes and draw the functioning of the person toward integration in the self, a  process that can start only when the ego allows the functioning of other psychic elements to be brought into some degree of conscious expression.

One of many helpful websites, (http://www.healthyplace.com/communities/personality_disorders/wermany/index.html) WeRMany, offers this test:

Questionnaire
From: People In Pieces Multiple Personality In Milder Forms Greater Numbers

by Alan Marshall, Ph.D.

Is it possible you have an ego state disorder? Do you dissociate? This questionnaire may help you decide if you should get help now.

1. Do you sometimes find yourself "zoning out" in the middle of a conversation, nodding your head appropriately, but unable to get yourself back in it and fearful that you will be found out?
2. Did you spend a lot of time in fantasy as a child, so much so that teachers or parents criticized you for being "in another world" a good bit of the time?
3. Does fantasy interfere with your life as an adult? Do you daydream about pleasant things so much that it jeopardizes your job or compromises your relationships?
4. Do you feel like quite a different person from time-to-time?
5. Do friends suggest that you seem quite changeable, different from day-to-day?
6. Are you accident-prone?
7. Do you make a lot of "Freudian slips" -- where you think one thing but say or write something quite different, even the opposite?
8. Do you have a sense that part of you is missing or had to be jettisoned along the way?
9. Do you notice things about your sex life that you think are weird, like hating to be touched in ways that most people seem to enjoy?
10. Do you have large chunks of your childhood that are devoid of memories?
11. Are you more indecisive than most of the people you know?

[A score of six or more "yes" answers is suggestive of Ego State Disorder.]

Caution: This is not a standardized test, and the scoring is only suggestive.

My score = 11.  What's yours?

Recently I posted an example of a conversation quite representative of how "girls" are "felt up" by "guys" in cyber space. It seems these hetrosex-only-please guys require reassurance that their proposed partner is of the proper sexual persuasion to get it on with them. (http://www.ne.jp/asahi/sweet/song/pearl_moral_tail.htm) This is a game we became very familiar with during our cybering days in which we held the equivalent of a royal flush in poker, i.e., an unbluffable hand that can at best be tied (extremely rarely) and never beaten. The way the game is played is to point out evidence or propose a test which pulls down another player's panties and reveals what's underneath. Despite the false faith placed by naive players of this game in the proof provided by, for example, a telephone call, there is no 100% certainty even up to and including an actually face-to-face meeting of the "real" sex of one's cyber partners. Although many guys would be satisfied after meeting a smooth complexioned and buxom cutie, "she" might yet be a trans-gendered guy, or there are even weirder cases of girls who fully believe in their femininity yet upon dna analysis prove to be males whose hormones caused them to grow up with a woman's body. Well, a guy who just wants to get it on without any responsibility for a future family might even be happier with one of those, but it does suggest fertility as an ultimate test. Now 99 point quite a few more nines of those you meet in cyber space couldn't go that far. We not only can but have. That's the royal-flush blessing and also curse of being a cyber couple. Multiple personality redeux. Beyond the many in one to the union of many into one.

Guess that's enough food for thought now.

Regards, Hypatia Theon, at home in "The One."