<p>I am British. I go back tomorrow. Well, today as it is 1 AM. I’m in Boston with my aunt.</p>
<p>is eton harder to get in than andover or exeter</p>
<p>No. To my knowledge, fewer people apply as it is only an all-boys school. And you basically need to be rich unless you’re a King’s Scholar.</p>
<p>"Location: Phillips Academy '11
Posts: 1,111 "
hahaha, tom, that’s funny
… ok, not really, but whatever.</p>
<p>tom did u apply for FA for andover??</p>
<p>^ he did. i’m just posting for him because 1112 posts would be such a shame…</p>
<p>dive what school do u got to or applying for</p>
<p>???</p>
<p>Is morphious both deerkiss and davedrake? You’re funny.</p>
<p>Ditto jasmine</p>
<p>Why are there **** people like this?! He’s a mixture of deerkiss, davedrake and…hurley or something</p>
<p>Let’s just FORGET about those stupid usernames and do something fun…</p>
<p>I think he’s bruinsfan too</p>
<p>Dissociative identity disorder (DID) is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a condition in which a person displays multiple distinct identities or personalities (known as alter egos or alters), each with its own pattern of perceiving and interacting with the environment.
----From Wikipedia</p>
<p>Multiple personality disorder (MPD) is a psychiatric disorder characterized by having at least one “alter” personality that controls behavior. The “alters” are said to occur spontaneously and involuntarily, and function more or less independently of each other. The unity of consciousness, by which we identify our selves, is said to be absent in MPD. Another symptom of MPD is significant amnesia which can’t be explained by ordinary forgetfulness. In 1994, the American Psychiatric Association’s DSM-IV replaced the designation of MPD with DID: dissociative identity disorder. The label may have changed, but the list of symptoms remained essentially the same.</p>
<p>Memory and other aspects of consciousness are said to be divided up among “alters” in the MPD. The number of “alters” identified by various therapists ranges from several to tens to hundreds. There are even some reports of several thousand identities dwelling in one person. There does not seem to be any consensus among therapists as to what an “alter” is. Yet, there is general agreement that the cause of MPD is repressed memories of childhood sexual abuse. The evidence for this claim has been challenged, however, and there are very few reported cases of MPD afflicting children.</p>
<p>Psychologist Nicholas P. Spanos argues that repressed memories of childhood abuse and multiple personality disorder are “rule-governed social constructions established, legitimated, and maintained through social interaction.” In short, Spanos argues that most cases of MPD have been created by therapists with the cooperation of their patients and the rest of society. The experts have created both the disease and the cure. This does not mean that MPD does not exist, but that its origin and development are often, if not most often, explicable without the model of separate but permeable ego-states or “alters” arising out of the ashes of a destroyed “original self.” </p>
<p>A rather common view of MPD is given by philosopher Daniel Dennett. </p>
<p>…the evidence is now voluminous that there are not a handful or a hundred but thousands of cases of MPD diagnosed today, and it almost invariably owes its existence to prolonged early childhood abuse, usually sexual, and of sickening severity. Nicholas Humphrey and I investigated MPD several years ago [“Speaking for Our Selves: An Assessment of Multiple Personality Disorder,” Raritan, 9, pp. 68-98] and found it to be a complex phenomenon that extends far beyond individual brains and the sufferers. </p>
<p>These children have often been kept in such extraordinary terrifying and confusing circumstances that I am more amazed that they survive psychologically at all than I am that they manage to preserve themselves by a desperate redrawing of their boundaries. What they do, when confronted with overwhelming conflict and pain, is this: They “leave.” They create a boundary so that the horror doesn’t happen to them; it either happens to no one, or to some other self, better able to sustain its organization under such an onslaught–at least that’s what they say they did, as best they recall.</p>
<p>-<a href=“multiple personality disorder or dissociative identity disorder - The Skeptic's Dictionary - Skepdic.com”>http://www.skepdic.com/mpd.html</a></p>
<p>what makes orangeyorange soo…orangey? that’s the real question. Someone help me, I’m going through an identity crisis D:</p>
<p>It’s been deerkiss the whole time?!!</p>
<p>oh shes a jeva i feel the same and i wanna meet her</p>
<p>This is funny. I wanna join.</p>
<p>jyun212. it’s not me. I have one account only. You’re a lousy guesser too. Stalkersquared!!!</p>