Ever wonder about ppl in the public eye? (DID-dar)

Have you ever wanted to recommend a perfect stranger or person in the public eye to sit the SCID-D?
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Don't know if any of you have seen him live, but I've been wondering about J/Joshua Tillman/Father John Misty since we saw him on stage.

We were switching like a loon all evening while this guy was drinking himself into an early grave on stage (though he is known as a raging alcoholic and very obviously bitter about his religious upbringing, the whole thing had the look of an act, though I bet his liver disagrees).
Anyway, the whole switcheroo that evening had the feel of a switch-along. Like we were on the same merry-go-around as the guy on stage. Second-hand switching. Might have been any number of other things setting us off like that, but that's what it felt like.

Then, halfway through his performance he hunched over in a corner and re-enacted a bizarre religious puppet show for children. Whatever else, the guy has got a religious chip on his shoulder. I guess that is what attracted us to his music in the first place. After all, we do too. (so there is another out, maybe the religious content triggered our switches).

My opinion didn't change at all when I saw him living it up on the dance floor after his gig either (though our 12 year old was itching to meet him in person the adults won out on that one)

So, yeah - might be talking out of my butt, might be any number of trauma related things or plain old alcoholism giving me this impression of Mister Tillman, but if the guy ever ends up googling his own name: I (obviously not a professional) recommend you look up the symptoms and if in doubt: sit the SCID-D.


Got any hunches yourself?

Sure. Charlie Kaufman, the creative genius behind so many mind-bending films. I have not read or seen an interview with him but every one of his films explores deeply some aspect of the subjective experience of DID. I would say he is a multiple and he knows it.

Thanks Una I think I'll be watching some more of his stuff - I am a sucker for films that recall aspects of the experience of dissociation.

That said I've always thought Chuck Palahniuk must be somehwere on the spectrum.
Not because of Fight Club but because of every other books of his we've read.

Then again, that might just speak to an understanding of the human condition and soicety that suits our own (especially Mal's).

-- Tue May 27, 2014 6:38 pm --

And for completeness - here is a link back to the original DID-Dar thread (slightly different focus):
dissociative-identity/topic71130.html