Why is it that when adults have multiple personalities they are put in an mental hospital, but when a child ha

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Children have minds that are developing. That is a perfectly normal and healthy part of beginning to understand one's own power of imagination. He or she will discover in time that is only a piece of their imagination, thereby understand their own creative power mentally.

Multiple personalty disorder is a debilitating illness. It's much more that the public can percieve. To them, it's a fluke of pop pscyhology for thier entertainment. In reality, it's a life-threatening disease, in/accurately portrayed in a script, played by the beautiful young Sally Fields in Sybil, and other hollywood protrayals. And it is extremely rare.

A child having imaginary friends up to age 7 is normal. They create their own "safety friends".

Having multiple personalities is very different. This is when people believe THEY are one or the other or other and so on. They are not seperate being who know each other. Most MP patients are not hospitalized for life, sometimes if it is out of control or meds need adjusting for evaluation and only if it is severe become residential patients.

Because the child just has an imaginary friend not several personalities of it's own.

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