Well I just want to start off by saying, if you are reading this please make sure you are in a safe place because you never know what sort of amnesiac boundaries you might have and I have heard that survivors of this kind of abuse can be dangerous to themselves and others, without even knowing that they have experienced the abuse in the first place. What I read could be incorrect, but I would rather be safe than sorry!
I'm doing some research on Dissociative Identity Disorder and some of its causes. I am attempting to write a work of fiction in which one of my characters has DID and PTSD. it's important to me that I portray his mental illness, as well as the events that caused them, in a manner that is respectful/relatable to those who have suffered through similar circumstances; as well as enlightening to those who know nothing about it.
He would have been born right around 1950, and served in Vietnam not long before it ended (Black Ops), so my research has brought me to this CIA mind control project called MKULTRA, in which former Nazi scientists were hired by the United States (and their records cleared--see project PAPERCLIP) to create spies out of young children by brainwashing them using satanic ritual abuse to cause them to dissociate.
http://childabuserecovery.com/why-are-s ... OYo7KB6jqA
But the further I go into this rabbit hole, the more difficult it is to tell the difference between truth and conspiracy mumbo jumbo. Does anyone have any personal testimony on this? Or can you offer some reputable resources?
I'm trying to avoid reading anything about the abuse itself (because the graphic details I have read so far are already highly disturbing), but what I am currently trying to learn more about is where these children came from, and what day to day life would have been like for them outside of the torture and abuse. Would they have slept in some kind of bunk room together and eaten in a dining hall like in boot camp? Did they ever know their biological parents? Also, if they were able to get out of the situation, how would they have broken away from the psychological programming and the surveillance? And where would they have escaped to? Some kind of hippie commune off-grid? Would they have been a danger to others at this point? How would they have gotten better in a time period when DID was hardly recognized as a legitimate mental illness?
I have just so many questions that I can't write anything about my character. Please help!