//------------------------------// // Psychological Mishaps // Story: Two Sides of The Same Coin // by Psicosis //------------------------------// “Um Twi? Do you mind calming down, and telling me what just happened?,” The cyan pony asked as she watched an annoyed looking unicorn walk around the library. Twilight paced the room, her face twisted in concentration, a faint voice ringing in her ears.  “Twilight!” The purple mare stopped pacing, and turned to her friend. “I’m sorry Rainbow... I’m still trying to figure it all out myself.” Twilight said. Twilight began levitating books of their shelves ,looking at the titles and muttering to herself while Rainbow sat in the corner looking confused. “I know I have it around here somewhere, where's Spike when you need him!?” Twilight exploded. Rainbow Dash had to hide a snicker from the unicorn. “Remember Twi? You sent him on an errand to Canterlot.” Rainbow said while trying not to giggle. Twilight ignored her and continued her search for her book. “Ah ha! I knew I had it here somewhere.” Twilight said while levitating a bid, dusty book onto the floor. She slammed the book onto the floor causing a loud bang and dust to fly off it. It had big letters on the front saying ‘Psychological Mishaps’ she flipped the book open to a chapter saying ‘Spilt Personality Disorders’ “Rainbow come over here and read this.” Twilight said, waving a hoof motioning the pegasus towards her. The cyan pony sighed and hovered over to the unicorn. “What is it Twilight?” Rainbow Dash asked. “Just read this chapter.” Twilight said, her patience getting thin. Rainbow moved her head closer to the book and began to read. Split personality disorder is also known as dissociative identity disorder or multiple personality disorder. The causes of split personality disorder are mainly psychological factors, like filly abuse, traumatic fillyhood experiences like loss of a near one, intensive humiliation; neglected fillyhood and difficulty adapting to change. Apart from psychological factors, tangible factors include iatrogenesis that is the adverse effect of medical treatment, that could be medicines or psychological treatment. The causes differ from pony to pony and it is not necessary that split personality disorder develops its roots only in fillyhood. In some cases, an adult may suffer from chronic stress, inability to cope with pressures or adapt to change, and as a way out of his depressing situation, develops a split personality which takes control of his original self. Sometimes, ponies are so greatly affected or influenced by some incident or pony, that the feelings resurface as another personality and the pony lives a different life, the kind he wished for but could not given his real situation. Since split personality disorder is a psychological condition, its causes and symptoms vary with every pony. The most common symptoms include opinions or behavior which is incongruent. For example: a pony may give an impression of being quiet and introverted but in another situation he may behave surprisingly outgoing. Panic attacks, a general sense of paranoia with no explained reason, recurring nightmares of previous incidents, staying away from family or friends, acute depression, unreasonable phobias or mood swings, are some of the symptoms which are generally seen. In some cases, the pony is so deep into his condition that both the personalities exist finely tuned and symptoms may be invisible to the ordinary eye. As such, the symptoms of split personality disorder are such that they can be misunderstood as general pony behavior but repeated cases of inexplicable behavior should be taken seriously as there can be a deep psychological reason behind it. Rainbow finished the chapter and took a long breath, she looked at Twilight with a puzzled expression. “Twi this doesn’t exactly answer my question, in fact this raises even more questions.” She mumbled. Twilight facehoofed and began pacing the room again. “Just do me a favor; go get the girls and meet up back here, I will explain it all then.” She said. The pegasus pony sighed and headed for the door. ************** Twilight looked around at the faces of four other ponies all waiting on her to speak. Twilight stood in front of them with a determined look on her face. “I’m glad you all came on such short notice, but this is important. We have a serious problem on our hands, it’s about Pinkie Pie,” She said. Rarity took her gaze off Twilight and began looking around the room. “Pinkie Pie appears to have come down with a mental illness. More specifically that illness appears to be a split personality disorder. Do all of you understand what that is?,” The four ponies all nodded their heads. “Okay, is there any questions so far?” An orange earth pony raised her hoof. “Yes Applejack?” Twilight asked. “Umm how do ya know all this?” The earth pony asked. “Excellent question Applejack. I know this because she attacked me and she explained everything to me, she must of expected to have succeeded in killing me or else i don’t think she would’ve spilled everything to me. If it wasn’t for Dash here she would’ve succeeded...”   “She attempted to murder ya?” “You left out the detail in where I found you in bondage gear.” Dash interrupted them, snickering. “Dash!” Twilight shouted while blushing. Rainbow Dash started laughing uncontrollably, Fluttershy looked to the floor, Rarity’s eyes widened and Applejack had to hide a giggle, but managed to keep a stern look on her face. “Look th-thats not important,” Twilight stuttered as her face grew even more redder. Rarity stepped forward and stood beside Twilight; she cleared her throat, getting ready to speak. “May I have everypony’s attention please?” Rarity spoke with a no nonsense tone making everypony stop what they were doing and focus on her. “Twilight is right... I have seen first hand what Pinkie is capable of and we really need to help her,” The other four ponies gasped, but before Rarity let them question her she began speaking again. “She attacked me while we were at the spa around a week ago. I never told anypony about it, Lotus knew about it because she saw the aftermath of it, but I swore her to secrecy. I didn’t tell anypony about it because I honestly thought it was just a one off. I thought it was my fault, but I see now that is not the case.” Little tears began to appear in the corner of the unicorn’s bright blue eyes. Twilight could see her friend was getting distressed and took over the speech. “And that’s why we have to help her; before she hurts somepony else. So as soon as dawn comes we will conduct a search for her, but for now I think you should all return home and lock your doors just to be on the safe side. Also get a lot of rest we’re gonna have a busy day tomorrow.” Said the purple mare. She moved towards to her front door and opened it with her magic. She held it open letting the four ponies pass through. “Don’t tell anypony else about this. I would rather not get Pinkie in trouble.” Twilight said and the rest of them nodded in agreement. After exchanging goodbyes they left the library, leaving Twilight all alone. She went upstairs and climbed into her bed, snuggling into the warmth of it. Feeling the exhaustion of today’s actions finally hitting her. She drifted off to sleep with one thought in her head. ‘I really hope Pinkie is okay... Wherever she is.’