News article...

Hello everyone...
Just thought I would give you all a heads up on a news article that mentions DID.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Story?id=4933727&page=1

A brief summary of DID is on page 8 of the article.

~Amber

Thank you for the link, Amber (lovely name, by the way). I now know a little bit more about DID than I did before reading it. That's the whole point, I suppose.

Kevin.

It's great to see an article that puts things in perspective and squashes the whole "Sybil" ideal. Thanks for posting this!

-Leigh

Ditto thank you for posting this

jorja
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No problem!
It is important to stay informed!
I think this is a positive step for DID. We have not had many victories in the real world, but this may help make it a more understandable and less frightening disorder, at least we can hope!
~Amber


p.s. Thanks Kevin... I like my name too!

lalalark2 wrote:p.s. Thanks Kevin... I like my name too!

That's rare (for someone to like their own name), as far as I know! Maybe parents should wait until their kid is old enough to choose a name before naming them. Until that point, everyone should be designated a number... ...Okay, that obviously isn't a good system.

Kevin.

If I may ask, I read on another post that Sybil isn't all it's cracked up to be, and I know why for me, sometimes but wondering your differences?

This is Grace, I am an older protecting alter, I was the one who read Sybil because I didn't want it to trigger Amber or the others, and I wanted to keep them safe.

Sybil for one, has been sensationalized beyone the truth of the story, and while her case is real, we don't know the true details of the story.

2) Sybil's relationship with her therapist goes far beyond the duties of any regular psychologist in this day and it is unrealistic to think that we would be able to develop a dependency of that sort and to heal from DID and then try to break that dependency with the psych to then lead a normal life.

3) There is no way in hell we would allow someone to hypnotize us. While this may make things harder, hypnosis is part of the problem with us having so many alters.

4) we all know there are no drugs to cure DID, and while drugs did not help Sybil attain cohesion between the alters, it did put her into an alternate state and therefore allowed therapy to be achieved in that way, and we prefer to stay away from drugs like that... as they again are part of the equation.

5) The abuse Sybil endured is unlike ours because a) it was her parents and b) it began in very early child hood c) she was the sold victim

6) our abuse was like Sybils because a) it was of a religious nature b) it occurred in over the course of several years

7) our case is similar to Sybil's because a) our system holds information from our host (big Amber) b) this withholding causes problems in school and in work situations c) the alters in our system started surfacing and wreaking havoc in college, when we first moved away from our hometown where our abuse occurred.

I think the similarities can be viewed as general similarities and could have occurred between anyone enduring such abuse and mental health issues.

I think Sybil has been over analyzed, over used, and as said before sensationalized. I think many people who have DID now cope better then Sybil did as displayed in her book and movie, and I think that new stories of people with DID would help our case and help us feel not so stigmatized.

I think that because of the abuse endured, and the way people used MPD as a cop out, we have a long way to go in making DID a disorder worth accepting.