As Jax you have quoted that my protagonist has to face a different set of challenges .It's not true because he is living in a simmiliar enivironment where the others live and the circumstances would affect him as much as it would affect the pokemon and the other inhabbitants.
While, yes, a character may face the same, "Oh, this is the evil team, so I need to defeat it" challenge, you'll have to realize that there's going to be
other problems on top of that
because you choose to have a character with a disorder. Basically, what you're trying to go for right now is more or less the same as attempting to say that a wheelchair-bound character will be able to run the same as anyone else. There are restrictions that the disorder, regardless of the level of acuteness, will place on the character. DID tends to be an extreme disorder, so if your character has
actual dissociated personalities, then your character will most likely face problems on top or within problems that you just can't ignore. The basic definition of DID, for example, would inflict depersonalization (the inability to acknowledge oneself or to feel "attached" to one's own body or self-consciousness -- sometimes to the point where, if shown a picture of one's own self, the patient would not be able to recognize the image), memory loss, and frequent time lapses, among other problems.
But the DID, i feel, often shows the patient two aspects of a problem.Herein my case, the charachter does see two different views in a sitiuation but the way he deals with it is altogether different.
...Either I've confused what you were trying to do, or you're confusing DID with another disorder. DID isn't a case of the patient being able to take on two different viewpoints of any one situation. It's a case of the patient's psyche existing in various identities or personalities that often work independently from one another (which is another problem a person with DID may face, even if he's aware that there
are multiple personalities in his head). It's not only like having Bob and Tim in your head with you, either. It's like being a completely different person at times -- a
completely different person. As in, there's shy and virginal you and loud and nymphomaniac you, with a distinct division between the two (as opposed to how healthy people operate, where they may display different aspects of their same personality, depending on company and situation -- like a difference between how one acts with their parents versus their group of friends). It is, simply put, the condition in which the patient literally thinks that they're more than one person. (
This provides a simpler insight as to what that means, including articles.)
Thus now it's handeled that my charachters are not two different beings but the same soul having two sides
Uh, this isn't called DID. This is called "developed character." In other words, your character most likely isn't a mental patient.
Seriously, though, a developed character is essentially a character who's multifaceted and multidimensional. What that means is that you don't have one archetype. Your character simply acts the way anyone in real life would, and sometimes, people in real life do both good and bad things -- have good and bad moods that influence their actions. It doesn't mean that anyone is bipolar, schizophrenic, or a multiple. It just means that they're
human, and I'm really starting to believe you're mistaking DID for an attempt to create a developed character (which, to be honest, would probably be better than attempting to pass off DID with only a very basic understanding of what it means).
As you stated that my protagonist would have to go through a disruptive thought process.That would only be the case when the degree of the DID is extremly high,
...Oh dear.
I'm sorry, but we're going to have to go back and define what DID actually
is. DID symptoms, off the top of my head:
1. Multiple
distinct personalities or identities. As in, yes, they will be separate from the frontrunner, or the "main" personality. Completely. That's what the word "dissociative" means.
2. Depersonalization, the inability to feel connected with one's own body or thought processes, which means that the person will most likely be unable to recognize his own work, his own image, or anything else he's probably done.
2a. Yes, this also means that the patient would be unable to recall personal details.
3. Memory loss, time lapses, or a distorted perception of time.
4. Any of various other psychological problems or symptoms, including hallucinations, depression, and seizures.
There are, of course, more than these. These are just the common ones, the ones that everyone or almost everyone quotes.
In other words,
yes, your character will most likely be facing some serious mental difficulties. All of this is disruptive, even on a mild level. While the frontrunner
could possibly function when he's active, it will be virtually impossible to go through an entire serial without his disorder disrupting him unless you want him to go through self-help, a therapist, or something else that would indicate to the reader that, yes, this would be a big part of his life. Psychological disorders usually
are because they are, one way or another, a disruption to the way a human being would normally think. (Given that thinking is a vital asset to daily life, yes, this would be a problem.)
I'll have to apologize if any of this seems biting. I've always had an interest in abnormal psychology (because, really, who hasn't?), and I know from both observation and experience that personality disorders (even ones milder than a complete identity dissociation or at least delusion that your identity is dissociation) can be incredibly difficult and disruptive to everyday life -- or at least to the point where you have to consciously make an effort to check yourself, and even then, you most likely will find that things tend to be harder than they are for other people because the way you think is getting in your way. So, to see a psychological disorder be portrayed badly in fanfiction because the author is unfamiliar with how it works but still wants to push it into their fanfic because it would be cool just never floated my boat. Not to say that you would definitely do that, but a common problem with fanfic authors and personality disorders is that the author really doesn't ask themselves whether or not they actually:
A. Want to do the work involved with researching the disorder and portraying it accurately, with the character reacting appropriately, based on how the disorder would alter their decision-making processes
and perception (of themselves, other characters, the world around them).
B. Fully understand it enough to pull A off.
C. Would be better off just telling the story
without the disorder. Because, really, most of the time, you're just better off leaving out the disorder. Your readers won't care either way, and the people with either the disorder itself or enough of an interest to research it would actually be happier if they didn't end up reading about a character born from either the Hollywood version of the disorder or a general lack of understanding of what it is.
That isn't to say that you shouldn't do it. If you can do enough research to understand how DID works, good on you. I'm just saying you really need to sit down and think
hard about who your character is, what the disorder is, and what the disorder does to your character because right now, I'm really thinking you're confusing DID with something that should happen with a
normal character.
