A dissociative personality can be triggered by an event that causes disconnection or separation from their own identity. This disconnect produces a transient identity, or sometimes multiple identities, that aren’t tethered to a person’s emotions. The perception of their sense of identity is one of being blurred, distorted, or bizarre. Undiagnosed family members or anyone else we encounter with such a condition takes years to rule out other conditions that appear to be the source of their behavior.
Even years after a traumatic event, there are sensory stimuli, (triggers) which reconnect a person to their trauma. These stimuli can be smells, taste, unwanted touch, memories, or feelings. Often, the trauma is the result of abandonment, or sexual abuse, commonly during childhood. It can also be their response to a natural disaster, and/or combat situation. Whichever the case, the disorder helps the sufferers to distance themselves from an unpleasant event.
They approach every decision in life with skepticism, making resolution a monumental internal struggle. They are extremely functional people in most areas of their life. Marriage leads to breakdown unless their condition is revealed to the spouse. All can be loved through our own stuff that is known. However, attempting to pin down the multiple identities and bizarre conduct is usually too much to handle for the unskilled.
Joseph Pulitzer was said to have said, “There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, and there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy.” For what we don’t know, we can’t be held accountable. Life is already a constant effort to avoid traps meant for our demise. If a partner failed to be sensitive to an issue that has been kept secret, where does the blame truly lie?
Trying to love a person that does everything to avoid it requires God in the midst to work out. When legions of demons alter and shift in a person, this demands one skilled in expelling evil spirits. When emotionally unchained identities are moving about, the spiritual ability of a prophet is needed to bind them. They may exist in just one host body, but they are legions of demons with their own self-identity. Each thought, action, or behavior has a litany of toxic traits that are completely different. Depriving the host of their sense of self, if not bound and cast out in the name of Jesus!
Many suffer more in their imagination and less in reality. With God in the midst of all that we do, the enemy cannot make us question our identity. Seek God’s wisdom, for it is impossible to learn what we think we already know. Be respected for staying strong, even when having every right to break down.
Remember, the haunting thoughts come from inside, the calm that heals comes from God. Break free from the webs that were intended to entangle for a lifetime. Or every decision you make will be uncertain. (James 1:8)
Matthew 18:18
New International Version
18 “ “Truly I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”
Matthew 18:18
King James Version
18 “Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”
Matthew 18:18
Living Bible
18 “And I tell you this—whatever you bind on earth is bound in heaven, and whatever you free on earth will be freed in heaven.”
James 1:8
New International Version
8 “Such a person is double-minded and unstable in all they do.”
James 1:8
King James Version
8 “A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.”
James 1:8
Living Bible
7-8 “and every decision you then make will be uncertain, as you turn first this way and then that. If you don’t ask with faith, don’t expect the Lord to give you any solid answer.”