Multiple Personality Disorder

Anything could happen....

 

I don´t really think so, because it usually happens after traumatic events as far as I know.
Although having a father not accepting your being gay can be awful, I don´t think it will jolt the mind enough.
Unless the father is abusive.

But mind you, this is just what I think, I´m not an expert.

 

When it comes to dissociative identity disorder ('multiple personality' is out of date), the one who supposedly has the condition has no control of their alter egos, and, for the most part, has no knowledge that they exist. Those personalities would take on characteristics that mould them into archetypes (protector, scared child, et cetera) that have nothing to do with gender or orientation. Those could be, by extension, the causes of the controversial disorder, if they cause severe trauma and they cope in such a way to dissociate themselves from the trauma.

I have an aunt who worked frequently with people who had psychological disorders, and the ones who claimed to have DID, she said often, were old women who's incomes were quite above the average patient's.

 

There's very little known about the onset of dissociative disorders, but the media usually portrays dissociative identity disorder (DID) as the result of some traumatic event, like others have said. It's not unheard of for it to happen this way, but as far as mental illness goes, it's one of the ones with the least researched causal factors.

The other identities (alters) can take on a whole slew of different traits though, ranging from gender to age to sexual orientation - even left vs. right handedness. So while I don't really have an answer if the situation of being closeted could cause someone to develop DID, it's possible a gay person with DID could have an alter who is straight.

 

Please don't go around spreading blatantly misleading information about a mental disorder you clearly have no legitimate clue about.

"for the most part, have no knowledge that they exist." is also completely false. DID manifests in patients very differently, just like most mental disorders and mental illnesses, all patients can not and will not experience the same symptoms.
Indeed some patients with the disorder have no recollection or knowledge of the dissociation, however the vast majority of DID patients do have varying levels of knowledge and understanding of the dissociation. Some are able to communicate with the 'other persons' and some have no means of communicating or influencing the actions of their alternative person(s).
DID does predominantly seem to occur in victims of very emotionally traumatic experiences, often at a young age(though it is possible but rare to occur in older individuals) it often comes as the brain's way of coping with such severe trauma.

When one is affected by very traumatic events, the human brain does all it can to fix the problem, similiar to the way white blood cells attack viruses in the body when someone is sick.
the most common way of the brain dealing with such situation is by completely blocking access to the memory of the event. this is very common, especially for children and i'm sure you'v heard of numerous situations where people are unable to recall any memory relating to a bad and traumatizing experience. in such situations the patients completely forget that the situation ever happened.

However in more severe cases where blocking the memory of an event is not possible or effective, complete dissociation may occur.
DID comes about and manifests itself very differently in patients.
Some victims of DID experience the dissociation as a result of dissociating themselves from a traumatic experience completely and having that memory shifted to a different form of consciousness(a different personality)
Often victims of DID are unable to recall basic information about their childhood or personal information or often experience 'perspective memory', which means that their memory of events or personal information will differ depending on 'who' (which personality) is remembering it. ie, some individuals will have personalities with completely different interests, taste, childhood memories, identity, accents(way of speaking) even intelligence.
One personality may have memories of growing up in a particular part of the world while another personality will have a completely different recollection.

DID may also occur simutaneously with other disorders such as Schizoid personality disorder, where as well as experiencing a semi or complete lack of social relationships or emotional responsiveness, they may also experience very elaborate, highly complex and elaborate 'fantasy' worlds and they are often unable to differentiate between reality and 'fantasy'. i.e, some DID patients with this particular experience may see and completely believe that they have blue eyes, even when they look in the mirror, when in 'reality' their eyes are brown or green. however their brain will transmit their empirical perception (their ability to look in the mirror and see their brown eyes) to match what their fantasy (so instead of 'seeing' brown eyes, they will see blue eyes)
likewise, the different personality(s) of a patient may all have different physical appearances, such as height, hair colour, hair type, skin colour, face structure, weight, height etc and the DID patients perspective of their physical and emotional self will change to match whichever personality is in 'control' at any given time.

DID is a very severe, uncommon and misunderstood mental illness for which there is already a lot of public misinformation about. Of course it is very well liked in the movie industry and crime or horror films love to portray psychopathic serial killers who have DID in a very unrealistic and ficticious light. Just like everything else in movies, they are overexaggerated and 'tweaked' to be as entertaining and scary to the audience as possible. So please don't go around spreading the information you get from movies in a pseudo scientific light.
If you would like to know more factual and informative details about this disorder i suggest you do some in depth and scientific reading and research into the matter. (and by this i mean a little more than just a quick browse through Wikipedia)

Source(s):
I am a neuroscience and psychology student in college specialising in cognitive neuroscience and psychological disorders. i also live with two Oxford psychology graduates(one of them being a full time clinical psychologist) I plan to pursue a PHD in neuroscience.

 

You could be closeted and have DID, and alters can have different orientations, but being closeted itself won't cause DID. It's caused by severe childhood trauma - now if you happened to be gay as well as suffering severe childhood trauma, you might cope with being gay in a DID sort of way because that's what you learnt when you were little.