>>12943136DID is not like it is in the movies but its more a pathologic defense mechanism for those who cant deal with stress in a healthy way. Many were traumatized as children and as horrible things happened to them it was easy to say, “its not happening to me, its happening to this body that I don't identify with.” So many feel some relief of emotional stress from this and in the future, when faced with another stressor, they resort to a defense that worked before, dissociation and reinforce it to maintain the dissociation. “Its not happening to me, its happening to some one else, and this someone else happens to be named Alex and unlike me, they are daring and charismatic, etc etc”
