i watch the movie on youtube. it was scared for me cause i do not know if i act like that or say something that i do not remember or know what happen to me in my past. i know sybil has 16 alter.

How they protray it is not good. It does not really compare to what it is like in real life. DID is not what is seen in the movies cause each person is different. I have seen the movie just to see what it is like.

oh ok interesting.

like most media presentations of real life it is over done. people with did do not behave that way. one very important thing to remember when you think about alters is THEY ARE ALL A PART OF YOU. alters are NOT aliens. each and every one is some part of your unconscious. YOU created them so by definition they are part of you. they are an expression of something that you need or want. they were created for a reason and when something happens that is similar to the circumstance that caused their creation they are likely to become present.

it makes me angry to see things like sybil and the 3 faces of eve shown without a disclaimer that they are entertainment and not fact. there are many serious books on the subject, my favorite is by cameron west, 'first person plural.' it is the best description of did i have read in novel format to date. there are others that are equally good but not as well written.

please don't allow things like sybil and the 3 faces of eve scare you. if people behave that way they are probably psychotic and although someone maybe psychotic and have did it is uncommon.

im glad you have given me an insight thanks. i just like Sybil cause its like seeing how DID COULD be, no guarantee its true or not, i havent met enough DID people to see how different people are affected by this disorder, i wonder have you read Switching Time? my husband read it and said it was good. or Breaking Free, that is pretty good too, although i never finished it.

the movie is pretty graphic and can be triggering

i just found the movie on youtube, it was rather triggering, just like hearing any body elses story of why they are DID.

i read switching time but not breaking free. i thought switching time a good read but am always kind of suspicious of therapists who become friends with their clients. i'm not suggesting anything inappropriate happened, but when you become friends with your client/therapist it changes your objectivity, you can't help it. but then again maybe that's what helped the person in switching time recover, i don't recall her name.

at any rate it wasn't sensationalized,.it sounded like what happens in therapy and i'd recommend it.

Switching Time is next on my list of books to take out of the library. Thougth I got it last time, but had swapped it out for a different one at the last minute.

I saw Cybil before I realized I had DID and the thought of it scared me enough to deny DID for quite a while. Now that I'm better informed, I'm glad to say Cybil is no more like a real person with DID than a Hollywood movie witch is like a real witch. (I should know, since I'm a witch.)

The best television show I've seen on DID is the one I posted about recently and someone added a link to it: "The Woman With 15 Personalities." Although I get annoyed that Dr Ross asks her to switch like it's a parlor trick, I can understand the need to show switching in a documentary. She also knew and was prepared to do that as part of documenting her condition.

If you like to read, I've got a few I can recommend to you. I found all of these at my city library. Free info is good!

*The Family Inside* written by a DID woman with the help of her two therapists.

*A Fractured Mind* written by a DID man about how he discovered he had DID in his middle age, and then following along with his treatment

*When Rabbit Howls* can be very triggering - use caution - but another account written by a woman and her alts, relating how repressed memories slowly came to the surface during therapy.

*Multiple Personality Disorder From the Inside Out* by Sidran Press. A compilation of drawings, short accounts, and poetry from many multiples on lots of subjects relating to DID. Easy to read if you like to read in small bites; each inclusion is no longer than 3 pages, but there are lots of them, so you get a good view of what multiplicity is like for lots of different people.

If you read any of these, please let me know what you think of them, and if they resonate for you.

oh ok thanks wistala