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Researchers propose that sometimes children cope with intense trauma by dissociating from the experience and developing alternative selves as protectors. this is one explanation to the cause of:

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This is the cause of the development of a dissociative identity disorder, in which a person has multiple personalities, from which one is dominating at a time. This also leads to different behavior and attitude, at the time of dominance of different personalities. 
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