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Your story is all too familiar, Im 16, doing the college thing with high marks, ugh, I wish I was as poetic as r, but I am not, I just wish I, ugh, I just dont know anymore.

Handwriting! I have a file on the computer called "1997Handwriting.DID.Disoc.pdf". The title of the paper is "HANDWRITING EXAMINATION: CAN IT HELP IN ESTABLISHING AUTHENTICITY OF DISSOCIATIVE IDENTITY DISORDER?" and it is by Eli Somer, Ph.D. And Ron Yishai, M.A.

Track it down if you can, it is really worth inspection even if just for the handwriting samples. Let me spoil the conclusion for you:

"CONCLUSION
Handwritings A, B and C could not have been a product of normal variation of development nor could they have been a result of role-playing, disguise or forgery. These pictorially different handwritings could thus be accepted as genuine and sincere occurrences even though it was also established that they had all been produced by one and the same author."

The historical handwriting samples of three different alters were selected and studied by a handwriting analyst. There was some blinding. They never mentioned dissociative identity disorder to the analyst. They basically just asked who had written the samples.

I've maybe put a little too much into figuring out what is going on in my house. :-p


Oh and if you can't get the paper by name, it can be found in the following print publication and issue:
DISSOCIATION, Vol. X, No. 2, June 1997


"For reprints write Eli Somer, Ph.D., School of Social Work, University of Haifa, Mt. Carmel, Haifa, 31905, Israel.

An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Fifth Spring Conference of the ISSD, Amsterdam, May, 1995."

Hi Jen. My fiance's DID isn't really a problem at the moment. I know how to deal with the others when they come out, and it's not very often. I'm more concerned about how things might go in the future. It doesn't seem to have changed at all in years, except that the last time the little girl came out, some of the memories crossed over. We don't really know what that means.

The bipolar is really more of an imediate concern, but again we're working through it together and I'm again learning how to talk to someone in mania and depression, and how not to make things worse. The child isn't violent, I wouldn't say, just scared and needs assurence that she's safe. It's only the psychiatrist who said that she can be. I don't agree, she's never been violent with me. And doesn't really react any differently than I'd expect a child to who just woke up in a strange place. And we're not completely certain that the other is actually another person or just a minifestation of the manic side that comes out while asleep. But again, I've never seen anything dangerous about her.

As I said, your writing voice doesn't necessarily say how you behave, just how you sound. It might be that she is nervous and guarded about what she says.

Anyway, you're a writer, then? What sort of stuff? Can I ask, is it just you or is anyone else in your system a writer?