Im all for the power of the mind but this is like saying that someone with MPD is pregnant but not all the personalites are.You either have diabetes or you dont.It can be controlled though to where you keep your blood sugar levels stable to that of a non diabetic.IOW the symptoms of diabetes disappear..but they will reapear quickly if you dont manage it.
Right now my husbands blood sugar levels are in the "normal range" with eating right and taking his medications.If he stopped taking his meds and began to eat poorly he would quickly develop the symptoms back and in the process do more premenent damage to his cells.So I can see where if his "personality" changed to eating right and taking his meds made his diabetes "invisible" if checked by a doctor and if his "personalilty" switched back to eating Mcdonalds twice a day and stuffing fried apple pie in his face daily the symptoms woudl reapear with that personality.
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Dallas
Yes, I understand how you reacted to what information I shared. Please note that I didn't make it up. It came from a well respected doctor.
I just personally found the insight fascinating and believe that it warrants more investigation. Or should we limit ourselves in trying to understand what disease is and what ultimately causes disease?
***quote Micheal Talbot***
Dr. Bennet Braun of the International Society for the Study of Multiple Personality, in Chicago, has documented a case in which all of a patient's subpersonalities were allergic to orange juice, except one. If the man drank orange juice when one of his allergic personalities was in control, he would break out in a terrible rash. But if he switched to his nonallergic personality, the rash would instantly start to fade and he could drink orange juice freely.
Allergies are not the only thing multiples can switch on and off. If there was any doubt as to the control of the unconscious mind has over drug effects, it is banished by the pharmacological wizardry of the multiple. By changing personalities, a multiple who is drunk can instantly become sober. Different personalities also respond differently to different drugs.
Braun records a case in which 5 milligrams of diazepam, a tranquilizer, sedated one personality, while 100 milligrams had little or no effect on another.
Often one or several of a multiple's personalities are children, and if an adult personality is given a drug and then a child's personality take over, the adult dosage may be too much for the child and result in an overdose. It is also difficult to anesthetize some multiples, and there are accounts of multiples waking up on the operating table after one of their "unanesthetizable" subpersonalities has taken over.
Other conditions that can vary from personality to personality include scars, burn marks, cysts, and left- and right-handedness. Visual acuity can differ, and some multiples have to carry two or three different pairs of eyeglasses to accommodate their alternating personalities. One personality can be color-blind and another not, and even eye color can change.
There are cases of women who have two or three menstrual periods each month because each of their subpersonalities has its own cycle.
Speech pathologist Christy Ludlow has found that the voice pattern for each of a multiple's personalities is different, a feat that requires such a deep physiological change that even the most accomplished actor cannot alter his voice enough to disguise his voice pattern.
One multiple, admitted to a hospital for diabetes, baffled her doctors by showing no symptoms when one of her nondiabetic personalities was in control.
There are accounts of epilepsy coming and going with changes in personality, and psychologist Robert A. Phillips, Jr. reports that even tumors can appear and disappear (although he does not specify what kind of tumors).
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except for his next appointment was a month away)
