Thanks Max and Stephen! Yes, I doubt the multiples would be able to respond
differentially to an actual, strong sleeping pill. I didn't find this idea
mentioned on snopes, but after asking my friend again, I think it came from the
TV show Matlock. Andy Griffith plays a lawyer (Matlock) who disco
On 22 May 2012 at 12:05, Maxwell Gwynn wrote, in response to Gerald
Peterson:
"...an active drug such as a sleeping pill would surely have the same
physiological effect on the person, independent of which
"personality" was being enacted
This would make an excellent empirical study. "
I agree wi
Gerald:
I would speculate that a person claiming dissociative identities may
respond to a placebo differentially under various "personalities", e.g.,
a placebo sedative administered to one "personality" may not have an
"effect" on another personality. But an active drug such as a sleeping
pill wo
Discussing mpd or dissociative identity disorder recently...clinicians on TIPS
probably encounter many pop ideas or urban legends about this diagnosis. The
question that arose is whether you can give a sleeping pill to such a person
and have it not affect one "personality"; presumably the one no
