is anyone multiple?

[Guest]

was just wondering if anyone was multiple...

If yes is it hard for you to deal with it or not?

[Guest]

Well I guess no-one is, good for you all :thumb:

[remotebleeper]

No I don't, do you?

There was a guy on the bus once and he was talking to his friend and every time he crossed his legs he changed into a character of a woman called Christine. I know I shouldn't have been listening in but I was so interested his friend just carried on having two conversations with him.

[The Pendari Champion]

No I don't, do you?

There was a guy on the bus once and he was talking to his friend and every time he crossed his legs he changed into a character of a woman called Christine. I know I shouldn't have been listening in but I was so interested his friend just carried on having two conversations with him.
Thats weird and interesting at the same time.

[spanner]

was just wondering if anyone was multiple...

If yes is it hard for you to deal with it or not?

Just wondering what you mean by this? I've never heard of multiple before?

[remotebleeper]

Just wondering what you mean by this? I've never heard of multiple before?

The mini title thing said mulitple personality disorder I think.

[spanner]

ah yes sorry - missed that bit!

[klintock]

No one on earth has it. It's bollocks, obviously.

[Guest]

No I don't, do you?

Yes I have actually, but manage to control it quite ok now tho.

There was a guy on the bus once and he was talking to his friend and every time he crossed his legs he changed into a character of a woman called Christine. I know I shouldn't have been listening in but I was so interested his friend just carried on having two conversations with him.

That's quite fucked up, mine are both male tho.

[Guest]

Just wondering what you mean by this? I've never heard of multiple before?

Multiple is just a term used for peple with multiple personality disoreder, you say the are multiple.

[Guest]

No one on earth has it. It's bollocks, obviously.

I fucking wish no one could have it believe me...

[klintock]

Do you know which hemisphere of your brain the lesions are in that cause your symptoms, mate?

[Guest]

Do you know which hemisphere of your brain the lesions are in that cause your symptoms, mate?

No idea, I have been followed be psychatrists a big part of my life they did shit loads of tests and all they could come up with is that I had something but they didn't know what. Really helpful...

Also I have never explain them the problem as it was really, but it has been there since I can remember. For a long time I actually thought I was possessed instead, it is just lately that the multiple personality disorder seems to be the closest of what I got. There is definatly something taking over my body, it took me more than 20 years to atually be able to deal with it and control it, well sort off.

But anyone who know me and see me when the other takes over all said I certainly doesn't look like I am myself. I can even have my eyes turning black when the are originaly light bleu. And quite often after I have to vomit as the changes is really painful. Always give me headaches and my eyes hurt like hell.

But then again mental illness are not that easy to define, but all my symptoms are closest to a multiple personality disorder than anything else.

[Voodoo Ray]

Your eyes change colour??

[Guest]

Your eyes change colour??

Yeah I know, it's fucked up, but it has been said to me, it is not me that actually noticed that. That might explain why my eyes hurt when I am coming back to be myself.

[SuzyCreamcheese]

Your eyes change colour??
well they go completely black, could be the iris just dilating completely, but they go black and just look different.

[klintock]

well they go completely black, could be the iris just dilating completely, but they go black and just look different.

Sounds like that to me. :yes:

One of these "personalities" will be good at visual things, and one at either feelingy stuff or auditory stuff, right?

[Guest]

Sounds like that to me. :yes:

One of these "personalities" will be good at visual things, and one at either feelingy stuff or auditory stuff, right?

Well I guess, never try frankly, my other personality doesn't care much about stuff like that tho and he is really not a good guy.

I couldn't even say the stuff my other personality forced me to do when I couldn't control it, cos it was not nice things.

Now he is pretty mcuh leaving in my head (well I guess he always lived there) and we can even communicate, I guess I am not as ill as I used to be.

I could probably have prevented all of that, but I have never taken my psychatrist treatment, well I did when I was in a psychatric hospital as well they force you to it over there.

Never took any pills or else after that, even so I was prescribe with some, as it only hide the problem imo and doesn't fix it.

The road I choose was much harder but after years I have finally manage to take over and be able to control it.

[remotebleeper]

Well I guess, never try frankly, my other personality doesn't care much about stuff like that tho and he is really not a good guy.

I couldn't even say the stuff my other personality forced me to do when I couldn't control it, cos it was not nice things.

Now he is pretty mcuh leaving in my head (well I guess he always lived there) and we can even communicate, I guess I am not as ill as I used to be.

I could probably have prevented all of that, but I have never taken my psychatrist treatment, well I did when I was in a psychatric hospital as well they force you to it over there.

Never took any pills or else after that, even so I was prescribe with some, as it only hide the problem imo and doesn't fix it.

The road I choose was much harder but after years I have finally manage to take over and be able to control it.

Good for you for starting to control it. (that sounds patronising but it isnt meant to be)

I bet its really scary for the people around you to deal with, not to mention you. Do you know whats happening when your other personality takes over? I mean is it like having two personalities at once or does one totally take over?

[stargalaxy]

I've never told anyone this before. I was suspected of having this a few years back. I had barely a clue what it meant back then, and I'm hardly any the wiser now.

[remotebleeper]

I've never told anyone this before. I was suspected of having this a few years back. I had barely a clue what it meant back then, and I'm hardly any the wiser now.

What happened? Im so nosey today, tell me to shut up if you like I don't mind

[stargalaxy]

What happened? Im so nosey today, tell me to shut up if you like I don't mind I'm not willing to go into details in public. I might tell you privately later.

[remotebleeper]

I'm not willing to go into details in public. I might tell you privately later.

Okey dokey, no problem sweetie!

[Guest]

Good for you for starting to control it. (that sounds patronising but it isnt meant to be)

I bet its really scary for the people around you to deal with, not to mention you. Do you know whats happening when your other personality takes over? I mean is it like having two personalities at once or does one totally take over?

It used to totally takes over and I could have no memories of what he did, but now it's more like we have a share memories, sometimes it was like I'm still in there, watching everything, but couldn't do shit about it.

People around me were indeed scare, I didn't had much friends back then, don't have a single one left in France and I know for a fact my school was glad when I stopped going there.

Only one of my teacher was really good and kind of understand my problem, she told me something really wise once: "If you had a broken leg everyone would understand and have sympathy for you, but what people don't understand just scare them away"

[Guest]

I've never told anyone this before. I was suspected of having this a few years back. I had barely a clue what it meant back then, and I'm hardly any the wiser now.

I think somemental illness as such sometimes are really hard to define and most of psychatrists I think really stinks. They try to understand what they can not understand and go by books instead of per case and in most cases all their solution is pills and other shit like that.

[stargalaxy]

I think somemental illness as such sometimes are really hard to define and most of psychatrists I think really stinks. They try to understand what they can not understand and go by books instead of per case and in most cases all their solution is pills and other shit like that. As it happens, they eventually concluded I didn't have it. I started taking anti-depressants for the depression, and that seemed to improve matters. Last year however, I was found to be mildly schizophrenic, which wasn't at all expected.

[Sikorah]

i saw a program a little while ago about a lady with 7 personalities. she had to have full time carers to look after her, and some of the personalities were quite nasty.
Used to be called Dissociative Identity Disorder.

[Yerascrote]

I seen that program. Fucked up.

I'd hate to have a multiple personality disorder. It would be so freaky.

[Blagsta]

Used to be called Dissociative Identity Disorder.

afaik it is now called dissociative identity disorder

[Blagsta]

I think somemental illness as such sometimes are really hard to define and most of psychatrists I think really stinks. They try to understand what they can not understand and go by books instead of per case and in most cases all their solution is pills and other shit like that.

I agree, the medical model of mental health is far too narrow and limiting.

[Blagsta]

afaik it is now called dissociative identity disorder

Yep. From DSM IV
Dissociative Identity Disorder

Defined as the occurrence of two or more personalities within the same individual, each of which during sometime in the person's life is able to take control.

http://www.psychnet-uk.com/dsm_iv/dissociative_identity_disorder.htm

[klintock]

Yep. From DSM IV

See if you can find a definition of "normal" in there while you are at it.

I agree, the medical model of mental health is far too narrow and limiting.

Yep.

Of course, the assumption here is that there is such a thing as personality. Which of course there isn't.

[Guest]

i saw a program a little while ago about a lady with 7 personalities. she had to have full time carers to look after her, and some of the personalities were quite nasty.
Used to be called Dissociative Identity Disorder.

Fucking hell 7... I had already a hard time managing 2, 7 I can't even imagine, no wonder she had a full time carer...

[Guest]

I agree, the medical model of mental health is far too narrow and limiting.

Yep I think to threat some mental illness, pills and other aint the solution.
The role of the psychatrist would be to be able to sort of come into the world the person with mental illness is, try to understand it and try to find what trigger the problem in the first place. But well it's too much work for them, so they rather drug you instead, make their jobs much muc easier...

[SuzyCreamcheese]

Fucking hell 7... I had already a hard time managing 2, 7 I can't even imagine, no wonder she had a full time carer...

I saw that program too and the woman was complete nuts. It didnt seem like you at all, but then again, I didnt know you when you were bad, and obviously she wasnt you, so her problems wouldnt be the same as yours, even if the illness had the same name.

[Guest]

I saw that program too and the woman was complete nuts. It didnt seem like you at all, but then again, I didnt know you when you were bad.

Well when I was really bad to start with I have no one at all with me and was going to wor monday to friday as a graphic designer, so far from being that bad...

[bluewisdom]

May I ask what was your alternative method of dealing with the disorder that seems to have worked for you?

[Ballerina]

i saw a program a little while ago about a lady with 7 personalities. she had to have full time carers to look after her, and some of the personalities were quite nasty.
Used to be called Dissociative Identity Disorder.
oh i remember that, she'd just change without warning. Sometimes she'd be a little boy, or a teenager....they'd write in a diary and even the handwriting was different and she never remembers any of it.

[Guest]

May I ask what was your alternative method of dealing with the disorder that seems to have worked for you?

Will power, it's all about will power, becoming stronger than the other personality... But it aint easy, it aint easy at all... Took me around 20 years to be able to control it perfectly... Now there is nothing the other do I can not control or stop... But well it is in my case, it might not be possible for all cases...

[Ballerina]

my mates bf claims to be schizophrenic and have multiple personality....he says he has another personality that makes him get angry and depressed...but i think it's just him losing his temper and wanting to be 'different' teen angst. How is it diagnosed?

[ShyBoy]

do you suffer from scizophrenia too, nmm? loads of my family do and at times i worry if i might one day! :( but at the moment im pretty much ok. never had multiple personalities, though i used to pretend i did, to quite an extent, because it made my friends laugh (they knew it was a joke - mind you, i carried on with it for about a year and developed different emotions in different 'modes', quite bizarre).

glad to hear you're coping with it well :)

[Guest]

do you suffer from scizophrenia too, nmm? loads of my family do and at times i worry if i might one day! :( but at the moment im pretty much ok. never had multiple personalities, though i used to pretend i did, to quite an extent, because it made my friends laugh (they knew it was a joke - mind you, i carried on with it for about a year and developed different emotions in different 'modes', quite bizarre).

glad to hear you're coping with it well :)

I don't know about the scizophrenia part tbh... I haven't see a psy in now more than 8 years and well I was never really helpful regarding the as I have never tld them anything... Well tbh my other didn't wanted to be find out, so basically they never fund much about me... They did shit lot of tests, they find out there was someting no normal in there, but have never bee able to sort out what exactly...

Frankly I didn't want to be help, so it did make their job much much easier, I don't believe in external help and think most psy don't have a clue what they are talking about...

[bluewisdom]

Will power, it's all about will power, becoming stronger than the other personality... But it aint easy, it aint easy at all... Took me around 20 years to be able to control it perfectly... Now there is nothing the other do I can not control or stop... But well it is in my case, it might not be possible for all cases...Wow, that's pretty impressive.

[Guest]

Wow, that's pretty impressive.

I guess so, but frankly I would have hope for a more simpliest way to deal with it, I could have choose the easy way ad just take pills for the rest of my life, but I went the other way, it was harder and left me with some regrets and scars due to SH, but then again I culdn't be more proud of myself and I tink it make me quite a strong person...

[Blagsta]

my mates bf claims to be schizophrenic and have multiple personality....he says he has another personality that makes him get angry and depressed...but i think it's just him losing his temper and wanting to be 'different' teen angst. How is it diagnosed?

schizophrenia and multiple personality disorder are not the same thing

[Ballerina]

schizophrenia and multiple personality disorder are not the same thing
that's what i thought...but schizophrenia can include allsorts

[Blagsta]

that's what i thought...but schizophrenia can include allsorts

but not multiple personality disorder

[ShyBoy]

but not multiple personality disorder

I thought there were links to them though, scizophrenic people were more prone, i mean i wouldnt like to say anything as fact as i dont know precisely... my aunty talks to the t.v. which is a bit strange, but she doesnt seem to mind at all :/

[bluewisdom]

I guess so, but frankly I would have hope for a more simpliest way to deal with it, I could have choose the easy way ad just take pills for the rest of my life, but I went the other way, it was harder and left me with some regrets and scars due to SH, but then again I culdn't be more proud of myself and I tink it make me quite a strong person...Have you ever tried seeking alternative help though? With complementary or alternative methods?

[Guest]

Have you ever tried seeking alternative help though? With complementary or alternative methods?

Nope never. Also I have heard only of alternative method back in France but few months later I ended up in England and never manage to give it a shot...

Apparantly it was a guy who stopped psychatry because he didn't like the restriction and was really pushing people, even to the point where it would make you hit some sand back and other and really go deep into your problems...

Also I don't know if it would have done any good and if this is what you meant by alternative method...

[spanner]

This Mind booklet about disociative disorders (http://www.mind.org.uk/Information/Booklets/Understanding/Understanding+dissociative+disorders.htm) might help to clear up your questions.

[Guest]

This Mind booklet about disociative disorders (http://www.mind.org.uk/Information/Booklets/Understanding/Understanding+dissociative+disorders.htm) might help to clear up your questions.

Thanks, seems like a link with some useful information...

[Aspire]

I watched a documentary about this sorta thing once! Some woman had about 7 different personalities.. some of them male/female, some of them kids and adults (I think.. been a while since I seen it), she did actually sound like a 5 year old kid and had the same mannerisms.

It turned out to be some really deep psychological defense because she was sexually abused as a kid and she'd switch off and pretend she was someone else whilst it was happening, that was how she dealt with it. Was definitely fucked up and I really did feel sorry for her, but it was freaky watching her chattin to the presenter and then suddenly change into another person.