• fearing said on May 27, 2008....

  You mean outside of the voices in my head?
  
  ;-)
  
  Just trying to make you laugh.  I don't have any experience with MPD.  Sorry.
  

• quietone said on May 27, 2008....

  sorry truth, no help here either ~

• truthsayer said on May 27, 2008....

  Heh heh Miss Fearing ; ) You did. I am trying to do research with Windows 98, internet 6.0 and dial up : ) Now, that oughta make somebody smile! I was just thinking of you a little while ago. Good to see you m'dear. Truth

• truthsayer said on May 27, 2008....

  Hi quietone. Thanks for the note. Let me know if any of you find anything that is sanely written about this controversial topic. : )

• truthsayer said on May 27, 2008....

  Dissociative Identity Disorder, or DID might be the more recognizable term...now that I think about it again. Perhaps that would have been a better title. I have a phone conference coming up, and I won't be available for a while...but PLEASE, comment if you have any life experience with this disorder. Truth

• pickersplock said on May 27, 2008....

  Well, I do work with several people who have that diagnosis.
  They have a dual diagnosis of MR and DID.
  I teach dance classes to the disabled, in case you didn't already know that.

• RollingC said on May 27, 2008....

  The only contact I've had with dementia....aside from the voices in my head (like Fearing was saying)
  was with my mom who had Alzheimer's the last years of her life.
  Rc

• mobil said on May 27, 2008....

  At times, when I used to get drunk, I used to think I was tougher and better looking than I actually was. But, I was pretty damn good looking and tougher than most, just not as tough as I thought I was.

• RollingC said on May 27, 2008....

  When someone gets drunk...does that qualify as having multiple personality? Even if you don't know which one is the real you?

• pickersplock said on May 28, 2008....

  There is one gentleman in particular I'm thinking of.  He also has mental retardation (MR).  What would you like to know, Truth?

• DaddysLittleSlut said on May 28, 2008....

  I had a roommate in the hospital who was diagnosed DID.  We were both going through a sexual abuse track at College Hospital.  She was on antidepressents, heavy physcotherapy, and had quite a few sodium amatol (not sure of the spelling) sessions.  Usually after therapy she would have a different demeanor.    I couldn't really tell if she recognized me or not.  Sometimes she couldn't talk.  Her taste in food was very different.  Sometimes she would down giant size coffee with lots of sugar other times she couldn't stand any warm liquids and said they tasted like blood.

  Her body was covered in scars.  Her history was of abuse from the time she was an infant until age 30.  She was coming to believe that she was the first daughter of the high priestess of a satanic cult.  Her sodium amatol tapes suggested that she had engaged in murder, canabalizm, and racial terrorism.

  Even after I left, she would call and say that the moon was pulling her to a meeting back to the cult and that she couldn't turn around.  One time I found her with her car wrecked, her body brusied and blodied at her home with no recollection of having called or how she came to be that way.  She remembered driving by a hospital and being very scared that someone was not alright.

  I was also a patient and never recieving information from the doctor about her.  I only heard her tapes and her side of the story.  I felt her fear.  I also know that during those years, the early '90s, therapists were being accused of leading patients to believe the worst and drugs were used a bit freely.  So how much truth to all of it - i don't really know but it appeared real.  If I had to guess, I would say that I experienced 3 separate instances of this person.  All related to the same life but, not with complete knowledge of each other.

  And if you're wondering how unstable i was at the time... ughhh i was scared of what i didn't know.  i didn't uncover any memories but found that life goes on in spite of the past.  What i needed was to take a good hard look at my current situation and move forward from there.

  dls

• truthsayer said on May 28, 2008....

  Okay RollingC and Mobil...so you guys aren't sure if you are the one wearing the lamp shade that started the fight, or the one that wished "he" would just "shut up already" ; ) Thanks guys : )

• truthsayer said on May 28, 2008....

  Oh yeah Rc and Mobil...you're both late for pickersocrates class! Now scoot, or boot-scoot!

• truthsayer said on May 28, 2008....

  Hi DLS, welcome. I don't know how reliable it is either. I was doing research for something quite different...well, I thought it was, but then I see that these things can be related.

  I am very sorry that you have had the experiences that had brought you to that hospital. But I am glad that you are dealing with it. You can HEAL from all of it.

  As to your friend from the hospital...it sounds really extreme. The whole thing is nebulous and I don't know if it helps a person get "right" or not. I am not sure at all. It seems like it was all over the place in the late 80's and even the 90's...and there is less information after that.

  I don't know if I am going to mention it in my article or not. I really appreciate your candor though. It will help me to decide which, if any, of the research to include. It may lead to more questions than answers.

  Bless you for sharing here...and I wish you continued healing.

  Truthsayer

• truthsayer said on May 28, 2008....

  Hi pickersplock.

  I am not sure really. I was looking into it as something that still exists today. But it seems that legitimate research is lacking now-a-days.

  Then I wondered if any of you had real experience with someone that already had the diagnosis. Something besides "The Three Faces of Eve" or "Sybil", you know?

  Does it seem detectable to you now that you have met someone that has the diagnosis? I remember someone close to me saying that he could tell schizophrenics after having been around a few.

  I guess I was also wondering if one could live a "normal" life with it...as I have read some say that they do. I guess I would like to know if helps you to deal with them more appropriately...you know, does it help them, for you to know?

  As a Christian, I wonder what all of these various forms of mental illness would have been called in ancient times...or in Third World Countries.

  Don't feel like you have to answer here, in private, or at all. I am thinking out loud here. It is as if there are so many diagnosis, so many medicated and suffering people, but I looked up some of the more extreme things, and this is where it led me.

  Thanks for trying pickersplock and all the rest of you too.

  Truthsayer

• pickersplock said on May 28, 2008....

  Hi Truth, the one thing I would like to mention, is that DID is not necessarily what you see in the movies.
   
  In other words, it's not always so clear cut.
   
  If I hadn't known that this man was diagnosed as such, I would have thought he was just being silly at times.
   
  I also think, that the diagnosis is not "chic" anymore, so we don't hear about it as much.
   
  Autism seems to be in the media now, as ADDHD was in the nineties, and bi-polar disorders were in the eighties (then it was called manic depressive disorder).
   
  I don't think I would treat him any differently if I didn't know his diagnosis though, but that is because of the people I work with.

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