I have not personally consciously created new alternate personalities. I had enough on my plate with learning about the ones that developed out of my abusing childhood, discovering what I had gone through that caused me to become DID, discovering what the triggers were that caused me to switch into those alters and learn new coping skills that eventually enabled me and my alters to merge together into one whole being again.

In other words, I didnt have time nor the wanting nor the need to consciously create new alters. I was dissociatied into my alters created through abuse that most of my life was a blank slate anyway, the times when I was aware were happy times for me because all the trauma and abuse and bad times were held in those alters that came about during abuse. and then after I was diagnosed with DID I was too busy getting myself back on track and together again.

That said I have worked with people who have consciously created illnesses and alternate personalities in my work with the crisis center and the mental health unit. most times the reason this has happened to those I worked with was because they read up on something and decided hey thats cool wonder if I could do that, or they did it for attention, or their brain was just prone to the power of suggestion where everything they hear about or read about happens to them.

Some have done it out of boredom or low self esteme.

A very few the problem was therapy related where they thought it was what the mental health professional wanted, they percieved through their therapy process that the mental health professional wanted them to be DID, paid more attention to the alternate personalities then their normal self.

in either case what we do is limit the medical and psychological information ie no reading medical and mental health books, no visiting those kinds of websites no discussing things of medical and mental disorder related topics. We keep the person very busy learning new ways to handle their every day life and the daily problems that come with it, and we talk a lot about learning how to like yourself for who you really are without all the made up cover stories and masks, We also show them the video of the brady bunch show where peter tried to change his personality and Jan tried to change her personality.

we also have them sign a release form for contact with their other treatment professionals so that we are all on the same page for treatment.

usually it doesnt take very long for those we worked with for the problems to fade away for those who are prone to the power of suggestion once their information is limited,

usually it doesnt take very long for those we worked with who have consciously created personalities out of boredom, attention or not liking their self to realize they are fantastic people without all the made up personalities and we are told those personalities "have gone away" "died" "got sent away"

those that we worked with that created the problem for their self because they thought having alternate personalities was cool and fun usually scared their self into stopping the consciously creating alters once the dissociative problems started getting out of their control, and their dissociative problems went away after they gave up using that coping system and learned to keep their grounded in reality.