Capstone Project - DID Documentary
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<a href="http://kaufmanhanna.blogspot.com/2015/04/dissociative-identity-disorder-aa.html">http://kaufmanhanna.blogspot.com/2015/04/dissociative-identity-disorder-aa.html</a></p>
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Thursday, April 9, 2015</p>
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Dissociative Identity Disorder Documentary
This documentary told the story of 3 different adults living with DID. Gretchen, the first story, was about a 34 year old honor student at a small college in New York who is also divorced and has two children, who she rarely sees. When Gretchen is distressed she switches to a personality who is emotionally stronger, who goes to class, takes exams and studies for her. An aggressive personality who goes by the name of "Myself" takes over when Gretchen needs to be assertive. When different personalities take over, Gretchen normally goes unconscious and has no memories of where the body has been, so she communicate with the other personalities by writing back and forth in a journal. Each personality has different hand writing.
The next story is about a 40 year old police officer named John. Besides being a cop, John was a Army Ranger and sharpshooter. He shares his job as a police officer with several other personalities, and he switches personalities when different police skills are needed. He also knows what his other personalities are doing. Within the first couple minutes of seeing John's story i noticed right away that each personality was distinctly different than the other, like for example different voices and accents for each personality. At his home John begins to switch to an alter who is 10 years old and named Johnny. Who also has different voice which is much higher and more nasal. What i found interesting was that John had trained his dog to stay out of his living room but once "Johnny" was there the dog came into the living and sat right by him, but once John switched back, the dog had left.
The last person you meet is 34 year old Barb. Barb has been married for 9 years and has 3 daughters. While shopping at the grocery store a 5 year old personality, named Mae comes out of Barb. Mae's voice sounds exactly to what a child sounds like, high pitched and nasal, i would describe it as "baby talk". Her vision changes too, Barb is prescribed with very strong glasses, but Mae can barely see through them. Barb no nothing about her other personalities and has no memories before the birth of her children.
What a saw a common factor in all these people was that as a child, they experienced abuse, both sexual and physical. They each had an alter that was a child , but they were all different when it came to knowledge of what the other personalities were doing like Gretchen for example was unconscious and had to communicate with her alters through a journal compared to John who knew exactly what his alters were doing.</p>
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Steinmen, Gloria. "Multiple Personality Disorder - Documentary." YouTube. YouTube, 1993. Web. 09 Apr. 2015.
Posted by Hanna Kaufman at 9:51 AM</p>
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Dissociative Identity Disorder Documentary
Capstone Project
Dissociative Identity Disorder Documentary. This documentary told the story of 3 different adults living with DID. Gretchen, the first story, was about a ...</p>