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Heredity, Trauma and Dissociation

Dissociative Identity Disorder/Multiple Personality Disorder only occurs when the person has the hereditary ability to dissociate. This predisposition must be combined with trauma for splitting and hiding to occur in the individual.

Dissociation creates gaps in the memory. These gaps are really barriers of amnesia used to protect the conscious mind from the trauma that the person has experienced. There are many barriers of amnesia within the dissociating individual. The more traumatic the events experienced the more barriers there are.

Dissociation is, therefore, a defense mechanism that is God-given in order to protect the sanity of these people. This protection is necessary. While it protects, there are some real and negative consequences to this forgetting on demand.

Out of sight and out of mind does not mean all is well with the individual. Trauma is real things, happening to real people or parts of people at a a real point in time. They are not imaginary. The gaps in the memory that occur when the individual dissociates mean that the person with Multiple Personality Disorder is not aware of what the alters/personalities are doing in life. Almost all the alters carry out some function. They exist for a purpose. Many of these purposes are evil, destructive or shameful. Not being aware of what they are doing, or of their role and history equates to not being consciously in control of all your life. You are doing things that you just do not know about.

Some alters were formed and dissociated because of verbal, emotional, physical, psychological, sexual, ritual and religious abuse. Trauma may include abandonment, rejection, age inappropriate demands, emotional deprivation, or lack of structure in the family of origin. Inconsistency leads to insecurity, anxiety, poor adaptation to life. These are not the only types of abuses that occur.

Much abuse is generational in nature. Patterns of abuse reoccur in families. This is evident in alcoholic, drug addicted, sexually addicted and co-dependent/dominant-submissive homes. These families often produce and parent children who grow up and repeat many of the problems of their parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins.

A great amount of abuse is spiritual in nature and deeply hidden in the person’s subconscious. Homes where satanism is practiced parent children who exhibit sinful lifestyles similar to, but often worse than, the preceding generation. Satanist families are marked by frequent and profound torture, sexual perversion, sin and cruelty. (See “Court Evidences of Satan’s Destructive Work”; SEEING AND BINDING UP THE BROKENHEARTED by Norman L. Coad, Coadword Books, Burleson, Texas, 2018, pp. 46-50.)

Those who are deeply ritualized are often controlled by demonic beings. When they act out under the influence of the evil ones, they can exhibit no remorse. If not stopped, they will continue to repeat their evil deeds. As they continue in their antisocial destructive behaviors, they will become increasingly evil. The Old Testament calls such individuals BELIAL–useless ones who lie, steal, corrupt and are violent. The New Testament in the King James Version calls them reprobates–people who love to do evil, encourage evil and criticize goodness and virtue and applaud those who do evil.

Families marked by generational sin will often continue to carry out the iniquity of past generations. The sinful behaviors become entrenched in them. If not arrested, they will become increasing evil, wicked, corrupt and violent. God’s word says that He visits the iniquity of the fathers (and mothers) on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Him (God) by not obeying His commands (Genesis 20:5-6). As long as these continue their sinful behaviors, they bring the wages of sin upon themselves and their families.

The remedy is in genuine confession of sin, repentance, turning away from their evil ways, and calling out to God for salvation. God said to Jeremiah the prophet, “Perhaps when you tell them the truth they will listen and each will turn from his evil ways. Then I will relent and not bring on them the disaster I was planning because of the evil they have done. If not, then I will let the evil fall on them (Jeremiah 26:2-6).

Both God and Satan work with individuals and groups of people. Here is how Satan uses unconfessed sin of previous generations. He sends fallen angels, demons, to gather up unconfessed sins of previous generations. He forms these into “the schemes of the devil” and visits them on the children to the third and fourth generations to lie, rob, and destroy them (Ephesians 6:1-20).

Those who engage to help these wounded and troubled people must engage in spiritual warfare against the evil ones. They must recognize and use their spiritual authority that the believers have in Christ Jesus. They are then able to use the name, the word, and the blood of the Lord to save, heal, and deliver the sin-sick, lost and dying (Matthew 16:13-20; 10:1; Luke 10:1-20).

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The Names: Multiple Personality Disorder and Dissociative Identity Disorder

Many in the psychiatric and medical communities are aware of people whose personalities are shattered into bits and pieces. This awareness is evident from the individual therapist who works with the clients/patients who come to them for help to the researchers of universities and medical communities. All struggle to develop ways to help dissociated individuals.

To date there have been no major breakthroughs, “no best practices” that are recommended for use. The psychiatric community is stymied in their efforts to get to the truth of the matter. The secular communities report that there is no effective treatment that can reverse the destructive behaviors of the afflicted. Therapists in the spiritual communities report that change and healing are possible. However, these are not the decision makers of the psychiatric and medical communities.

There are two names given to this personality problem. I give these in historical order. These names are: Multiple Personality Disorder and Dissociative Identity Disorder. Both names are valid for they emphasize two very real aspects of the disorder.

Multiple Personality Disorder emphasizes the many personalities that manifest in the individuals. The personality that manifests in the individual at any particular moment arises out of their present surroundings and influences. There are those that have been created to work. These have the skills and knowledge that the person needs to function successfully. Some only operate in the academic environment; others in sexual situations only. These personalities may vary based on the sexual demands made and their own personal history. They may be of different ages, different sexes and different sexual orientation. (Note: there are both male and female personalities in every dissociated person.) There are others who operate only at very hidden levels and situations. These are usually dysfunctional and antisocial.

These distinctive differences of attitude and behavior can be quite confusing to the people who are closely related to them. They often wonder, “Who is this person?” The person who suffers from multiple personalities has limited awareness of their ongoing contradictions. They often ask themselves, “Who am I?” When confronted by people close to them, they may refuse to believe them. The lack of memory, personal shame, or fear will effect their response. If the confrontations are true, that is fearful for it means that they are not in control of their lives. If what is alleged is antisocial or immoral, the need for self protection arises. Their frustrations and fears are many. They are constantly being blindsided by consequences of some behavior that they were unaware even existed. Their life is marked by confusion. Things do not make sense. They can doubt their own sanity. The emotional and behavioral chaos of their lives moves them from one unsuccessful relationship after another. Longterm relationships are most difficult to maintain. All of the above described behaviors may drive them to ask for help.

Dissociative Identity Disorder is the more recent name given to people with such behaviors. The name emphasizes the fact that the purpose of dissociation is to protect from emotional and psychological trauma. Dissociation serves as a defense mechanism. The fragmented memory and constant splitting out of alters protects the person from the damage and trauma of their lives. It also helps them maintain their sanity. Therefore, it is not a form of insanity. (Note: the names given to the individual parts of the person are personalities and, more recently, alters.)

A characteristic of dissociation is that there is little or no memory in common between alters. They are quite isolated from each other. This is true to the point that most are not aware that the others even exist.

These alters are not aware of what is going on most of the time. They are constantly changing from being unaware to being aware. The ongoing changing of the alters is called switching. Only one or a few co-conscious alters take executive control of the personality at a time. We say that the alters who have executive control of the person’s life are “up”. Those that do not have control are “down”. Those that are down usually do not have any memory of what is said and done by the alters that are up.

The effect of isolating personalities with their memories from each other defends the person from a vast array of contradictory thoughts, attitudes, emotions, and behaviors. For the same reason, they are unaware of the evil in which many of their personalities engage. This, too, is a protection. However, the price they pay for that protection is in the end too costly. These alters are real and active. The things that they do have real time negative consequences that do damage to the person’s life. If it happens in your body, you are responsible whether or not you participated in the event. When these consequences occur, it is usually comes as a shocking surprise to the dissociated person.