I can only tell you what I read in Dr. Colin Ross' book on multiple personality disorder. What you describe is exactly how my dissociative disorder exhibits. In his book, Dr. Ross had fifty percent of his patients with symptoms that exhibited like this. He speculated in his book that he did not know if the other names were there before therapy or if this was simply a result of the therapy.

When a person switches into a child personality, it is definitely a dissociative disorder. If you act different in the different states then it is multiple personality disorder/dissociative identity disorder whether your other states have different names or not. The naming does not mean anything!!!! It is the behavior which should define DID/MPD not the naming!

What I have come to believe is that a dissociative patient switches into and out of hypnotic type states without control. This was caused by being traumatized severely enough to be triggered into a state of shock as a toddler. The toddler's brain is not developed enough and that state of shock is exactly like a state of hypnosis. The dysfunctional family traumatizes the toddler multiple times during the first four to five years thereby triggering the toddler into that state of shock multiple times. Eventually it becomes very easy to trigger that person back into that hypnotic state.

If you study the books on hypnosis, you will know that a hypnotist can age regress a patient back into childhood. That patient under hypnosis will experience the same feelings and emotions that they experienced when they were a child. It is common sense to me that this is what is occurring with a dissociative patient.

Also, if you study the books on hypnosis, you will learn that there is an automatic amnesia effect that occurs when being brought out of an hypnotic state. The patient will not remember what he/she said or felt while under hypnosis. This all has been documented by the psychologists and psychiatrists that did research on hypnosis for the Federal government!

This is why I believe that there is a conspiracy to cover up knowledge about this mental illness by the mental health professionals. Some of us may have been victims of mind control experimentation.

I would also like to point out that it is easy to traumatize a new born to five year old toddler. It does not have to be horrible physical abuse or sexual abuse like some people like to believe. Anything that scares the toddler enough can trigger the toddler into a state of shock. Anything that causes severe emotional pain can trigger the toddler into a state of shock. Anything that causes abnormal psychological stress can trigger the toddler into a state of shock. And, of course, physical abuse/pain can trigger the toddler into a state of shock.

I am a huge advocate of requiring parents to read parenting books if they plan on having children. The first five years of life is critical in the development of the human brain and personality.