 Like I watched the empty I want and there's a girl just associate did or something. I think it's just British and Like I watched and I was like, oh like she seems crazy We need to talk What is up everybody this is Chris from the rewired soul where we talk about the problem But focus on the solution and if you're new to my channel my channel is all about mental health So if you are like me if you are somebody trying to actively improve your mental health and learn a little bit more about it Make sure you subscribe and read that notification bell, but a bunch of you have subscribed We just passed 80,000 subscribers Welcome and thank you to all you rewired soldiers out there who have stuck around for all this time I love all of you. All right, so yeah something that I try to do is Educate people about mental health although. I'm not a licensed therapist or psychologist or anything like that I am somebody who has struggled with mental illness throughout my entire life I'm also recovering drug addict with seven and a half years clean and something that helps me with my own mental health is Learning as much as possible about my own disorders as well as other ones I think it's crucial that if you care about mental health You should educate yourself about other disorders Because although we are making headway when it comes to talking about depression talking about this anxiety There are many other disorders that are highly stigmatized right so it helps to educate ourselves about the other ones So we have a little bit more empathy So a lot of you have been here You know because we've been talking about dissociative identity disorder borderline personality disorder and the YouTube channel dissociate did she made a response to Trisha Paytas's video and she shares her own experience and talks about When Trisha Paytas says, you know multiple personalities, but anyways, I want to show you this clip real quick No, no no no no no the altars are formed because the conscious mind dissociates Essentially from itself the social identity disorder altars are fragmented parts of your consciousness They are all their own individuals they develop as their own individuals as I said, but it is formed because a child experiencing extreme or repeated Childhood trauma cannot deal with the knowledge and the awareness that this is happening to them So the brain dissociates it puts up a wall amnesia Between different parts of the consciousness so that some parts will remember this trauma Some parts will hold traumatic memories to be able to deal with it and others won't the whole disorder is built around Dissociation that is why it was renamed dissociative identity disorder. It's not a personality disorder. Yes, multiple personalities are involved with it But dissociation is an integral part of DID you cannot have DID dissociative identity disorder and not dissociate It also involves other types of dissociation subcategories like Derealization depersonalization otherwise known as DPD are so no you cannot have Multiple personalities. You cannot have NPD. You cannot have DID without dissociation. It is a dissociative disorder So, yeah, let's discuss real quick. All right So they have pretty much gotten rid of the term multiple personalities disorder even though that is still like kind of the mainstream Term for it, but it has since then been changed in the diagnostic statistical manual to dissociative identity disorder Right. So what does it mean to have multiple personalities? I think the first thing that we need to do is separate dissociative identity disorder from having multiple personalities Okay, you can have multiple personalities without it being a disorder and in this video We're gonna do a little test because they actually have something called the self-monitoring test That we're gonna talk about in just a second But as you heard from dissociate did from that clip She talks about it not just being different personalities Which is something that Trisha Paytas kind of discusses and I think it's important that we talk about that We've already discussed how one of the key symptoms of borderline personality disorder is lacking this sense of self and something I try to teach people is something that I've learned throughout the years is that Although many of us many many many of us would not be diagnosed with a disorder A lot of us can relate to certain symptoms And I think understanding that can help us empathize more with people who do have legitimate disorders So a lot of us We we change ourselves in different situations Alright, so it can seem as though we have multiple personalities, but what does that mean? So Recently just in the last few months. I got really interested in the topic of introverts verse extroverts Alright, and I've often wondered like am I an ambivert right because I I stay inside a lot. I'm in Las Vegas my beautiful girlfriend Trisha and I we hardly ever go out The most I go out really is with my son to the movies But part of it is because of my sobriety and that I'm getting older, but I don't you know, take full advantage of the Las Vegas Experience right but although I'm you know pretty introverted When the situation arises I can have a different personality for example this YouTube channel when I was working at the rehab center I was doing groups in front of anywhere from 50 to over a hundred people Depending on which group I was doing and when I do groups I try to be very charismatic and engaging because I don't want people to feel bored, right? but anyways Somebody who I could really relate to was Dr. Brian little Okay, he has an amazing book called me myself and us and a lot of it is about introversion verse extroversion I actually learned about dr. Brian little from the book by Susan Cain Susan Cain has one of the most Famous books about being an introvert. It's called quiet. I'm gonna link both those books down in the description below So if you would like to learn more about introverts verse extroverts I highly recommend these books Susan Cain's book is more about like the benefits of being an introvert And it was absolutely phenomenal But what I could really relate to and one of the reasons I picked up dr. Brian little's book is because he talked about being an introvert But he does like these speaking engagements and everything about his research, but afterwards he feels completely Drained and that is one of the signs of being an introvert So for me personally like I was like, oh my god I can relate to that because even though I would do like groups in front of a lot of people and I would have clients coming up and Answering or asking me questions afterwards like after that I would have to go in my office and just like close my door and just like reset All right, but anyways getting back to multiple personalities dr. Brian little He actually has a lot of different tests that you could take from the book And one of them that I wanted to talk today about multiple personalities and how it is different than dissociative identity disorder And it's different like that's one of the reasons dissociate did talk about this Like people do have multiple personalities and there's actually a test you can take Okay, it's called the social monitoring test So I'm gonna run through the questions with you real quick if you want pause this video real quick Get a piece of paper cuz you'll need it, but I'll also link it down in the description below All right, so pause for a second if you need to All right, we're back. Okay, so let's look at the social monitoring scale which comes from Mark Snyder and he's a psychologist, okay, so Well ask these questions answer them and then discuss what that means. Okay, you're ready. This is 18 questions Answer them true or false. All right So I find it hard to imitate the behavior of other people My behavior is usually an expression of my true inner feelings attitudes and beliefs at parties and social gatherings I do not attempt to do or say things that others will like I Can only argue for ideas which I already believe I Can make impromptu speeches even on topics about which I have almost no information. I Guess I put on a show to impress or entertain people When I am uncertain how to act in a social situation. I look to the behavior of others for cues. I Would probably make a good actor. I rarely seek the advice of my friends to choose movies books or music I sometimes appear to others to be experiencing a deeper emotions that I actually am I Laugh more when I watch a comedy with others than when alone in groups of people I am rarely the center of attention in Different situations and with different people. I often act like very different persons I am not particularly good at making other people like me Even if I am not enjoying myself. I often pretend to be having a good time I'm not always the person I appear to be I Would not change my opinions or the way I do things in order to please someone else or win their favor. I Have considered being an entertainer in Order to get along and be liked I tend to be what people expect me to be rather than anything else I have never been good at games like charades or improvisational acting I have trouble changing my behavior to suit different people in different situations at a party I let others keep the jokes and stories going. I Feel a bit awkward in company and do not show up quite as well as I should I Can look anyone in the eye and tell a lie with a straight face if for a right end I May deceive people by being friendly when I dislike them All right, so in the link down below like I said, I will link this test that I was reading from so you could take it Yourself the thing is at the end the results. It just gives you a percentage So I have a little answer key that was it provided in that book me myself and us So go ahead and if you're writing down true or false to these let's run through it real quick All right, so I'm gonna read off True or false for each question and you're gonna add up that total at the end of this all right One false two false three false for true Five true six true seven false eight true nine false ten True eleven false twelve true 13 false 14 false 15 false 16 false 17 true 18 true All right So depending on your score those who are higher who had more circled answers You would be considered a high social monitor those on the lower end of the scale or low self monitors All right, so what does that mean? Okay, so basically high self monitors they adapt to different situations Okay, and this so much doesn't have Everything to do with introversion versus extroversion, but somebody like me who is an introvert I can also be a high social monitor, right? So like I said, I adapt to different situations depending on it Okay, and that could be good. That could be good, right? I act different ways like you know if I'm talking to my boss rather than just talking to a co-worker Talking to my parents first talking to a friend, you know all those different things, right? And for some people that could be very beneficial, but in a second We'll talk about the downside and why sometimes social monitoring gets intertwined with ethics and morals Okay, so low self monitors they tend to stay static in every single situation. All right, so there were questions like you know, I Stay exactly the same. I don't change my opinions on things depending on who I'm around, right? So this this person is acting the same in every single situation They stay exactly true to themselves They are not you know going to agree with everything that other people say and although some people might you know score higher on there There is you know this this amount of like morals and ethics and it's your own personal code It's what matters to you I read a lot of books about moral philosophy and psychology and all that kind of stuff But one of the concerns with high social monitors are that they are BSers right that they will BS people and then you know, they'll get found out or whatever it is So for me personally, I adapt to different situations, but I have my own moral compass Like I'm not going to flat out. Here's a good example. I'm half black I'm not going to be around Racists and then all of a sudden adopt their racist views. I'm gonna speak up and say something about it But but in a certain social situation, I might not you know, if somebody says they'd like a movie I might not be like, you know, that movie's stupid, you know what I mean So there is that kind of fine line Then there are low Social monitors where there are obviously Upsides to it staying static the entire time what you see is exactly what you get no matter what situation they're in But there are some people who rate really really low on that social monitoring scale where it can be difficult because sometimes If you don't adapt to the situation like for example a job interview if you are too much yourself It can lose you a job, right? So there are pros and cons of this But this is part of having different personalities So you might only have like a certain amount of Personalities that you turn to if you're lower on the social monitoring scale those who are higher on the social monitoring scale You might be a lot of different things to a lot of different people in your life All right, whether that's good or bad kind of up to you depending on you know your moral compass your ethics You know, but I think what we all need to do is look at it and say Is where I write on this social monitoring scale like does it cause issues in my life? You know what I mean, and that's when we got a we got a kind of a just like for example I used to be a huge people pleaser that made me depressed It made me angry right like I would agree to do things that I didn't want to do So personally I have had to find a balance, but anyways I hope Taking this test and learning a little bit more about personality traits Helps you understand why somebody like dissociate did is saying, you know, there was a difference between dissociative identity disorder and Multiple personalities and I I believe I haven't Doven into the history of the DSM and why they changed the name I'm sure you can find that somewhere else and maybe I'll do a video on that sometimes But there is a clear difference between dissociative identity disorder and people who are just rating higher on The social monitoring scale. All right, but anyways Hope that gives you a little bit better understanding. Okay, something, you know I've just been really fascinated with lately is personality traits introversion and extroversion I have some videos that I've scripted out, but haven't done yet about, you know Like the Myers-Briggs scale and everything but depending on what you guys like and don't like that's how I kind of gear by content So if there's more you would like to learn about introversion extroversion the Myers-Briggs scale and all that Let me know down in the comments below. Okay, but anyways, that's all I got for this video If you liked this video, please give it a thumbs up if you're new make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell and a huge Huge thank you to everybody who supports the channel over on patreon as well as everybody who buys my mental health books over at The rewired soul calm and stay tuned right after I upload this video I will be making some massive updates to the rewired soul calm so make sure you check that out All right. 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