Talk:Ken Kaneki/@comment-98.246.4.110-20150723045511/@comment-26509016-20150724064139

I never said it is the same, did I? I think I didn't even mention DID. But shizophrenia can cause you to have a split personality as well. And mentioning shizophrenia is easier than DID, since DID is rather unknown compared to shizophrenia.

Except of that, I agree. "Kaneki" is just what Haise wants him to be. When Haise wanted him to be a monster because Haise was affraid of becoming a ghoul, Kaneki was a monster. When Haise needed the power to protect others, Kaneki was his friend. Well... same as with Rize. Kaneki was hungry and wanted to eat, and created "Rize" to justify his hunger, his urge to eat Hide after his fight with Nishio, so he's not shown as a monster, instead he could give all the fault to "Rize".

Though I gotta say that people with DID/shizophrenia can in fact sometimes make their identities "overlap". Either one of their personalities suddenly knows things which only a different personality could know, or they wanted to abandon one of their past, yet can't because they'll always remember parts of their past's identity. I've known one of these cases myself, he kept remembering things from a personality which he discarded years ago, or was confused because he met someone from his past. And he was diagnosted with shizophrenia as well.