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[Some people] are raised to think that touch must be either aggressive or sexual," and thus [are] hesitant to openly engage in positive physical contact with anyone other than sexual partners.

For two years, he says he completely lost his sense of smell.

Dr Gillogley says it is common for people with DID to have an overwhelming fear of going outside.

“They’re frightened that they’ll switch to a more vulnerable self who might be younger and might not be oriented to time and place, and often it’s not something that can be controlled,” he says.

“It can be tricky to go around in the community and function in everyday life when whoever heads out the door may not be the person exploring in the community.”

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Traumatic repetitions could be seen as the result of an attempt to retrospectively "master" the original trauma, a child's play as an attempt to turn passivity into activity: "At the outset he was in a passive situation ... but by repeating it, unpleasurable though it was, as a game, he took on an active part".