{"quotes":[{"text":"Once I had found the courage to tell Rebecca about the children in my head, it wasn't so hard in the coming months to tell Roberta. On the train from Huddersfield one day in May I made a roll call of the usual suspects: Baby Alice; Alice 2, who was two years old and liked to suck sticky lollipops; Billy; Samuel; Shirley; Kato; and the enigmatic Eliza. There was boy I would grow particularly fond of named limbo, who was ten, but like Eliza he was still forming. There were others without names or specific behaviour traits. I didn't want to confuse the issue with this crowd of 'others' and just counted off the major players with their names, ages and personalities, which Roberta scribbled down on a pad. Then she looked slightly embarrassed. 'You know, I've met Billy on a few occasions, and Samuel once too,' she said. 'You're joking.' I felt betrayed. 'Why didn't you tell me?' 'I wanted it to come from you, Alice, when you were ready.' For some reason I pulled up my sleeves and showed he my arms. 'That's Kato,' I said, 'or Shirley.' She looked a bit pale as she studied the scars. I had feeling she didn't know what to say. The problem with counsellors is that they are trained to listen, not to give advice or diagnosis. We sat there with my arms extended over the void between us like evidence in court, then I pushed down my sleeves again. 'I'm so sorry, Alice,' she said finally and I shrugged. 'It's not your fault, is it?' Now she shrugged, and we were quiet once more.","author":"Alice Jamieson","tags":["dissociation","dissociative","dissociative-identity-disorder","mental-health","mental-illness","multiple-personality-disorder","psych","split-personality","therapy"],"id":1015,"author_id":"Alice+Jamieson"},{"text":"Dear Sigmund,Multiple Personality Disorder is a much discussed topic in my one bedroom bedsit.'Signed....Thomas, Jane, Ralf, Tom, Toomey and Spot.","author":"Anthony T. Hincks","tags":["bedsit","multiple-personality-disorder","personalities","personality","philosophy","psychology","sigmund","sigmund-freud"],"id":14810,"author_id":"Anthony+T.+Hincks"},{"text":"With DID patients, if they feel hostility or aggression they take it out on themselves with self-harm... They’re self-destructive and repeatedly suicidal, more so than any other psychological disorder. So that's what's typical – not this wild aggression, or stalking women [or robbery].- Dr Bethany Brand, on Billy Milligan and Multiple Personality Disorder (DID).","author":"Bethany L. Brand","tags":["billy-milligan","dissociative-identity-disorder","insanity","mental-disorder","mental-illness","misconception","misrepresentation","multiple-personalities","multiple-personality-disorder","self-harm","self-injury","split-personality","stereotypes","stigma","suicidal","suicidality","suicide","the-crowded-room"],"id":28670,"author_id":"Bethany+L.+Brand"},{"text":"Mary was my first encounter with dissociative identity disorder (DID), which at that time was called multiple personality disorder. As dramatic as its symptoms are, the internal splitting and emergence of distinct identities experienced in DID represent only the extreme end of the spectrum of mental life.","author":"Bessel A. van der Kolk","tags":["dissociation","dissociative-identity-disorder","mental-health","mental-life","multiple-personality-disorder"],"id":44044,"author_id":"Bessel+A.+van+der+Kolk"},{"text":"Identity confusion is defined by the SCID-D as a subjective feeling of uncertainty, puzzlement, or conflict about one's own identity. Patients who report histories of childhood trauma characteristically describe themes of ongoing inner struggle regarding their identity; of inner battles for survival; or other images of anger, conflict, and violence. P13.","author":"Marlene Steinberg","tags":["dissociation","dissociative","dissociative-identity-disorder","dsm","mental-health","multiple-personality-disorder","multiplicity","psychiatry","psychology","reference-works","scid-d","steinburg","textbook"],"id":86649,"author_id":"Marlene+Steinberg"},{"text":"The most chronic and complex of the dissociative disorders, multiple personality disorder, was renamed multiple personality disorder, was renamed 'dissociative identity disorder' in 1994 in DSM-IV (American Psychiatric Association). The rationale for the name change, was among other things, to clarify that there are not literally separate personalities in a person with dissociative identity disorder; 'personalities' was a historical term for the fragmented identity states that characterize the condition.","author":"Colin A. Ross","tags":["dissociation","dissociative-disorders","dissociative-identity-disorder","multiple-personality-disorder","psychiatry","psychology"],"id":93248,"author_id":"Colin+A.+Ross"},{"text":"The lifetime prevalence of dissociative disorders among women in a general urban Turkish community was 18.3%, with 1.1% having DID (ar, Akyüz, \u0026 Doan, 2007). In a study of an Ethiopian rural community, the prevalence of dissociative rural community, the prevalence of dissociative disorders was 6.3%, and these disorders were as prevalent as mood disorders (6.2%), somatoform disorders (5.9%), and anxiety disorders (5.7%) (Awas, Kebede, \u0026 Alem, 1999). A similar prevalence of ICD-10 dissociative disorders (7.3%) was reported for a sample of psychiatric patients from Saudi Arabia (AbuMadini \u0026 Rahim, 2002).","author":"Paul H. Blaney","tags":["africa","dissociative-disorders","dissociative-identity-disorder","dsm","ethiopia","mental-health","multiple-personality-disorder","psychiatry","saudi-arabia","split-personality"],"id":96208,"author_id":"Paul+H.+Blaney"},{"text":"As an undergraduate student in psychology, I was taught that multiple personalities were a very rare and bizarre disorder. That is all that I was taught on ... It soon became apparent that what I had been taught was simply not true. Not only was I meeting people with multiplicity; these individuals entering my life were normal human beings with much to offer. They were simply people who had endured more than their share of pain in this life and were struggling to make sense of it.","author":"Deborah Bray Haddock","tags":["bizarre","dissociative-identity-disorder","mental","mental-health","mental-illness","mpd","multiple-personality-disorder","multiplicity","normal","pain","psychiatric","psychology","student","trauma","undergraduate"],"id":102464,"author_id":"Deborah+Bray+Haddock"},{"text":"It’s hard to imagine a more squarely on-the-nose example of demonizing mental illness than portraying a mentally ill man as a literal demon.","author":"Charles Bramesco","tags":["demonization","demonized","dissociative-identity-disorder","mental-health-stigma","mental-illness","mental-illness-stigma","multiple-personalities","multiple-personality-disorder","split","split-personalities","stigmatization","stigmatized"],"id":109847,"author_id":"Charles+Bramesco"},{"text":"The primary treatment modality for DID is individual outpatient psychotherapy.Guidelines for Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder in Adults, Third Revision.","author":"James A. Chu","tags":["dissociation","dissociative","dissociative-identity-disorder","mental-disorder","multiple-personality-disorder","psychology","psychotherapy"],"id":121652,"author_id":"James+A.+Chu"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":51,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}