Thread:Harostar/@comment-157.48.183.244-20161114085934/@comment-217.212.214.57-20161114100447

I don´t know if this is a private conversation or not, but as someone who has studied psychology and this particualr topic, I wish to share my opinion on the matter.

DID is found in people who has suffered trauma in young ages of their lives, the credibility of the "multiple identites" and the extent on how much identity they really have is under question however, but I can tell from studying the cases that the reality of this is far from how fiction portrays it.

(In fiction DID is treated akin to a superpower...and demonic possession with a completely seperate individual that´s too inaccurate to be properly called a portrayal of DID...)

I shall use an example to explain my conclusion regarding the matter.

One patient and its two mindsets, let´s call them Ms. B and Ms. D for reference.

Ms.A suffered a severe trauma in the past and develops Ms. B as a way to cope with the event and remain sane.

Ms. A is the true persona. Ms. B is the fake one.

However, Ms B is not the supressed "persona" but the dominant one while Ms.A who still remembers the event, becomes the suppressed persona in favor of Ms. B who lives life normally.

However, even with Ms.A´s memories suppressed into disconnection from Ms.B, they still influence Ms. B subconsiously, causing effects like discomfort around anything that reminds Ms. B of the trauma but without making her remembering it, much to her confusion as she lacks the context of Ms.A who got the memory of said trauma in fresh recollection.

Upon reaching too much stress, the memory of Ms.A clicks back and Ms.B becomes Ms. A once more with the complete memory of the past intact and fresh. However, during that time, the memory of Ms.B which resides further down on the timeline, gets disconnected instead, which can be explained by this example.

If Ms. A was ten years old when the trauma and the creation of Ms. B occured and ten years later she slips back into Ms.A once again, then Ms. A (mentally) would still be ten years old while Ms. B would be twenty.

Imgaine the confusion Ms.A would have upon discovering that she got the body of a twenty year old wihtout context to explain it... Time machine in a sense...

Ms. A is the person Ms. B were ten years ago while Ms. B is who Ms. A will become in ten years time, this is the seperate identites that the "Dissoactive Identity Disorder" is known for and a true example of it.

(Any case where the alternate personality is up to date with the other one, is not a true case, since that would mean that the trauma and coping would have been made litteraly yesterday in the patient´s case, and it splitting into multiple personalities every day wouldn´t be a good way to explain this either, since Ms. B can´t split up and become Ms. AB but Ms. C instead... and Ms. C would split up into Ms. D and so on... each recent split being older than the first one.)

Example: Ms. A = 10 years old. Ms. B = 15 years old, Ms. C = 20 years old. Ms.D = 25 years old and so on...and no matter how many times Ms split, Ms.A will always remain the youngest of the bunch as one cannot become younger than when the trauma occured.

With all this in mind, I would like to try and discuss the appearance of DID within Tokyo Ghoul as well using this as reference according to the question put up here...

Kaneki Ken.

It´s correct assumption that he has developed a case of DID...on multiple occasions according to the traumas he has experienced in life and his way of copying with them.

Let´s call these Ken for reference.

Ken A

Ken B = born from child abuse. (Kuro Ken)

Ken C = Born from Yamori´s torture (Shiro Ken)

Ken D (aka Haise Sasaki) = born from the trauma which tormented him while in the prison

and that´s it with these four Ken.

Upon becoming Ken D, Kaneki was tormented by his other Kens as he tried to remember them through the brain damage he suffered in V14. He slipped into these various Ken during the course of Re as witnessed by us the readers.

(Ken C appeared while fighting Nishiki, Ken B appeared during the Auction...)

And after being confronted by Ken A during the Eclipse arc, Kaneki ken once again split off into a fifth Ken, (Ken E) while consuming Ken D, Ken C, Ken B and Ken A in the process, cannibalising on his own mind, in the process. Due to this act of psychological auto-cannibalism, he, from a psychologist´s standpoint, accomplished an actual recovery from his DID condition by merging all these personas together and gain access to all his memories, accepting his past and moved on without having to cope and hide it away anymore.

In short, the reason no further DID was observed after that point, was that Kaneki Ken managed to cure himself through the act of "consciousness cannibalism" and devoured the other four Ken in order to become a single, new and complete, Ken instead.

No other personalities in his mind, no internal conflict of identity and no DID with it.

Kaneki Ken is cured, plain and simple, and he did it all by himself.

(Ken E = Ken)

This is the conclusion form studying Ken´s case from a psychological standpoint...

And in case this was a private conversation, I once again pardon my intrusion, but I am a believer of more opinions can cover more ground and provide a deeper insight on topics and matters discussed.

Hope this helps...

...have a nice day.