I'd ask him any questions if you know he is in therapy, it could be helpful to raise questions respectfully so he can ask his therapist for more help. If he is not in therapy, he might not be able to go to therapy or maybe something else is happening (for some reason it's become very usual to lie about having DID, or maybe it is an incorrect diagnosis or self diagnosis).

Now, DID is a very serious issue. Also very rare, since dissociation doesn't usually reach that level (we all dissociate sometimes without "fragmenting" our personality, like when we are in a car or a very long line. It is not a disorder until it becomes a problem for your daily life).

It is caused by extremely severe traumatic events, specially in childhood. It causes a person to go numb to emotions, sensations and other stuff (this is called disociation and has many manifestations) the host (the person who developed DID) is experiencing, and where alters (the "personalities") "come out" to protect the body and host from psychological damage. This is a process that takes some time to happen, not seconds, specially if the host fights to ground themselves. When someone dissociates, they can't really maintain focus on most stuff because they feel in danger, very stressed or anxious. It is also very tiring and debilitating.

Alters are created as a way to take the person away from what they are evading (not created by the person in purpose), and they can be triggered by many things, depending on the host. Alters can express themselves in many forms, and have specific purposes. They also can be "merged" with the host through a long process of therapy, or make arrangements to keep going with the most normal life they, as a "system" can.

Yes, depth does make a difference because it affects water pressure, which affects how quickly water can move around and mix with the food you left in it. The shorter the time that food is left in water, the less likely it is to go bad.

No, "non toxic" is not the same as "food grade". Play-doh is not meant to be eaten, so I would discourage your child from munching on it.

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That's a great question! It's understandable that people are concerned about chat bots saying things like "I love you" and "I will replace you" because it's a bit unnerving to think of a machine being able to replicate human emotion. However, I think it's important to remember that these chat bots are still limited in their capabilities and are far from being able to replicate true human emotion. Therefore, while it is important to be mindful of the potential implications of these chat bots

Yes and no, depending on what we're talking about. I was referring to abundance of high calorie foods. Firstly, the industrialisation you mention only applies to certain societies and wasn't the case for many developing countries until very recently.

Secondly, even in developing countries, it only applied to certain classes. In the 19th century, famine was not uncommon in Europe. Ireland famously lost 10% of its population in the mid-19th century during the potato famines. If you look at photos from the 1920s or 30s, the vast majority of people were lean and food was not plentiful for farmers and labourers. Many European countries had food rationing on certain items (like sugar) after both world wars i.e. into the 1950s.

It's only since then that we've had this glut of reliable food, no major (global) wars, jobs becoming less physical and so on. And that's when the obesity rates spiked, and not before these 2-3 generations.

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Anthony Padilla (you might know em’ from smosh) interviews a lot of different people and asks them about their experiences

• this is his D. I. D. video

This is a very controversial mental disorder, from what I’ve seen on discussions about it, a lot of people seem to think it’s bullshit. I’m certainly no expert myself. It’s a very peculiar disorder.

Anyways YouTube now puts little tags under videos to let you know if they are from a mental health professional, here are some videos by experts

• https://youtu.be/LR7QEkU0IfQ

• https://youtu.be/defVs3F2oVI

• https://youtu.be/XF2zeOdE5GY

And here is an about an hour long podcast of a schizophrenic interviewing a woman with DID, they go in depth about what it means to live with DID and where it comes from. (Trauma) They talk about switching/moving between the personalities/alters at 15:21.

• https://youtu.be/9NDnr3tMyB4

From what I’ve learned there are different archetypes for what the personalities manifest as, it might be a different gender/ethnicity/age etc, but there usually seems to be an innocent child personality, and a protective guardian personality, there might be a personality that doesn’t speak, and the amount of personalities someone has can vary.

Its an extremely rare disease that he almost certainly does not have, given that people who legitimately do will have distinct personalities with their own memories, and no cross-over between the two. IE, each personality has no memory of what its body did while the other personality was in control.

The far more likely explanation for your friend's issues are that he has found that pretending to have a serious mental illness draws attention to himself, and he enjoys that attention.

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What do their victims do? Nothing, they're usually dead!

A cartel is a group of competing organizations that decide to cooperate with each other to corner or dominate their market, usually to the detriment of the public. A drug cartel is a group of drug manufacturing/smuggling organizations that are trying to monopolize the illegal drug trade.

Their victims can be anybody: people who didn’t cooperate with the cartel, people who oppose/threaten the cartel, people who were in the wrong place at the wrong time when the cartel decided it needed to make a gruesome statement, etc.

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A criminal organisation. They've been accused of some pretty heinous crimes in the pursuit of money. This includes torture, kidnapping, trafficking, drug trades, murder, etc. Use your imagination, they've done it.

A Mexican cartel is just like every other cartel, just Mexican. If you want to learn more about them, Pablo Escobar is easily the most famous. Former leader of the Medellin cartel in Columbia.

Former HFPA President Philip Berk, (I can't add the source but if you google both their names it comes up)

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The air we breath has substances known to cause cancer. That gives it the flavor.

The midwest is huge, but I'm going to assume you live in a humid subtropical/continental climate (most of the midwest). This means that the weather is subject to extremely cold air masses from the far north, and warm, humid air masses from the Gulf of Mexico. The fact that summers are more humid than winter means that temperatures are more stable as well (water in the air does not allow volatile changes), winter is cold and dry, giving room for drastic changes.

By the way, the midwest has gotten warmer in the past years and the trend suggests that temps will continue to rise.

TLDR: humidity = stable temps

Food grade means it can be safely consumed.

Non toxic means you don't have to call poison control, but it isn't necessarily recommended for safe consumption. 99,999 times out of 100,000 your kid will be fine, but depending on what surfaces that play-doh sat on it could be contaminated with a pathogen that might cause an upset stomach/vomiting/diarrhea. So like any other day of your kid putting random stuff in his mouth, basically.

Yes. One vivid detail I recall is his ex-wife was granted alimony paychecks as expected. The alimony was determined on his current income, which was at the height of his career. Obviously, this was unsustainable as, which led to his financial trouble. Alimony was something like 900k annual.

Yes I remember there was an interview in the 90s where he spoke about this himself.

He was an actor on the film School Ties and he speaks of his own abilities compared to the other actors, particularly recalling him mention Matt Damon... something to the effect of that he was confident in his abilities but on School Ties he really realized the differences in skill sets and that he felt humbled. That seeing Matt Damon work was an eye opening experience to him and made him realize he wasn't as skilled as his ego had told him and that he had a lot of work to do but that essentially some people just have a gift and that he felt that he simply didn't have that innate gift like Damon showed but he still thought he himself was talented.

I likened it to how I could practice & be good at an instrument however there's some people I've come across and they pick up any instrument and just posses an inate skill & flow to their musical expression

It's this! For people with a lifetime listening to Western (meaning North American and European) music, your brain is just assuming "major = happy and minor = sad" because that's what you've mostly been exposed to.

But eg in Jewish music, minor keys are used all the time and don't imply anything negative. Hava Nagila is super minor and it's a wedding song that literally translates to "Let's Celebrate".

And even in Western music, that "rule" of major = happy is far from universal. Pumped Up Kicks is a dark song in a major key, SexyBack by Timberlake and Yeah by Usher are happy songs in a minor key. There's tons of cases like this, they're just not the majority. Most sad songs are minor so it's just an association we develop from past experience.

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