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prejudice, to assume that the body should be allotted only one mind, one soul
... without Ever Having Been Diagnosed by a Professional?"
...and what the most documented "persons" were within a person with MPD?"
...why do all multiples in the literature have backgrounds of child abuse?"
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1. "Does this have anything to do with having imaginary friends?"
1. "Why do doctors say that a person has to be traumatized before a certain age?"
1. Introduction
1.) Are there any books written by actual multiples themselves?"
1.) Because it didn't exist in the recent past
10. What's it like?
11. Nonhumans - Mythic Creatures - Otherkin
12. Walk-Ins
13. Fictives - Fictional Presences - Historical Persons - "Soulbonds"
14. Other Worlds/Gateway Systems
15. For Multiples
16. Am I a Multiple?
17. My Friend Is ...
18. Sybil
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2. What is this Multiple Personality FAQ for?
20. Billy Milligan
21. About Us - Astraea
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24. Many Voices
3. Click here for an example of the kind of psychiatric view the above contributor means.
3. Our #1 Questions
4. What is Multiplicity?
5. Mental health experts do not know you better than you know yourself...
6. Healthy Multiples & Empowerment
7. Myths & Misconceptions
8. History
9. Therapy
A. "But this leads me to the question, what is a healthy multiple?"
A. "Do you believe Shirley Ardell Mason was really multiple?"
A. "Do you have a database of therapists?"
A. "How can I tell if I am multiple?"
A. "How can you be a multiple personality... you seem so normal."
A. "I just found out my roommate / stepson / co-worker is a multiple - how can I help?"
A. "I was just diagnosed ..."
A. "Is it possible for some of the people in a multiple group to be "walk-ins," that is, to come from outside the system?"
A. "Is it possible for some of the people in a multiple group to be characters (historical or imaginary) from books, films, video games, television series, etc.?"
A. "Is it possible for some of the people in a multiple group to be members of races usually considered mythological?
A. "Some multiples on the internet have written about living in different dimensions or on different planets. I also hear the expression 'gateway multiple' or 'gateway system'. What do they mean?"
A. "What is multiple personality/ multiplicity?"
A. "What's it like to be multiple?"
A. The best ones will tell you so
Abuse survivors Info
After Sybil
Amanda Lynch's Research Project
Amorpha
and that the presence of more than one indicates something wrong.
and the communication was disordered
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anti-Psych
Are only One Thing when Out Front
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B. ... This Means He Sort of Gets "lost in Space?'
B. ...if that's a misportrayal and multiples aren't crazy, why do scriptwriters do that?"
B. "Do only multiples have such worlds?"
B. "I have looked up info on the internet and dont really understand most of it. Im not sure what is going to happen to me now and Im really kinda scared."
B. "I was just diagnosed..."
B. "If somone is in a system, does one normally date/mate all of them, or just the one... or is she the girlfriend to X amount of people?)"
B. "Is it possible for some of the people in a multiple group to be spirits of persons who have died and subsequently taken up residence in the present body?"
B. "Is it possible to know or discover that you are multiple ...
B. "Is there a cure for multiplicity?"
B. "Then the fact that you are a multiple is not an indication that something is not healthy
B. "What about these lists I see on other websites? What about the Dissociative Experiences Scale?"
B. "What causes multiplicity? How do people become multiple?"
B. Is it possible for some of the people in a multiple group to be vampires, werewolves, demons, and other creatures of Gothic horror?"
because they were observing systems that tackled communication
Brain Structure
Brain wave changes
Built a "cult" of Multiples who were supposed to be hyperinteligent and psychically gifted people
C. "Are alters really separate personalities?"
C. "Are drugs effective in the treatment of multiple personality?"
C. "Does that mean you have them under control?"
C. "How do you tell if you are multiple?"
C. "I become different people when my emotions get to be too much, but I'm not sure I'm multiple."
C. "I'm doing a report on this for school. Where can I buy books on multiple personality?"
C. "If multiplicity is not always caused by child abuse...
C. "Isn't that possession?"
C. "My girlfriend has multiple personalities. What do I do when we're having sex and the six-year-old comes out?"
C. "Or is this a healthy response to extreme situations?"
C. "We live in the ____ area. Can you direct us to a therapist who specializes in MPD/DID?"
C. "Why do you resist the term "inner worlds"?
C. Guaranteed production
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D. "I am DID."
D. "Should I interact with the people in a multiple system ... "
D. "But the six-year-old wants to have sex. Isn't that inappropriate?"
D. "But these doctors are trained professionals ... Don't they know better ...?
D. "But you're saying this is real. Doesn't that mean you're insane?"
D. "I keep hearing voices but I couldn't possibly be multiple."
D. "I was just wondering about the relationship between multiple personality and schizophrenia.
D. "Our therapist wants to integrate us...
D. "What's the difference between being multiple and being fragmented?"
D. "Where can I buy the Sybil DVD?" (Sally Field, Joanne Woodward)
D. does that mean a multiple who has never been abused or has never been in therapy?"
Dangerous Super-beings
depends upon what the individual mind (or minds) choose to make of it. (thanks Amorpha!)
Dissociation Archives at Oregon University
Doctors drew an erroneous, though understandable conclusion
does not mean "proof of trauma"
Dr. Cornelia Wilbur never published a scientific paper on work with Sybil in a peer-reviewed journal
Dr. Pierre Janet redefined dissociation as distancing oneself from reality following trauma
Dr. Ralph Allison
E. ...Are you serious.. you mean I don't HAVE to integrate?"
E. "But multiples hear voices and schizophrenics do too."
E. "can you tell me what i can do to separate the diffrent personalities more? sorry if im wasting your time"
E. "I feel as if there are others sharing my body with me. But I don't hear voices."
E. "I hear of people reporting they can travel from their own world to someone else's. Is this actually possible? Is it some form of astral projection?"
E. "I've seen the expression 'polyfragmented' referring to multiples. What does that mean?"
E. "If I am dating someone who is multiple and later become intimate with another person in his system, am I cheating on him?"
E. "Is it possible for someone with this condition to switch at will?"
E. "Where can I buy the Sybil DVD remake?" (Tammy Blanchard, Jessica Lange)
E. That's right. Any multiple system can be empowered.
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F. ...it requires superior intelligence and creativity."
F. ...Why do many multiples advise against seeking professional help?"
F. "Are there any actual good books you can recommend?
F. "Are there certain chosen ones for this task or do you choose by random?
F. "I don't think my multiplicity is due to abuse, because I wasn't abused that bad.
F. "I love my girlfriend very much. How can I relate to the people in her group with respect and compassion?"
F. "I sort of feel like I might be multiple but sort of not. I feel like I'm somewhere in between."
F. "If you are multiple, doesn't that mean you have MPD/DID?"
F. "If you are so fascinated with our world, why don't you try to be born in this one? Is it easier to inhabit another person's body?"
F. "Please send me all the information you have on the genetic origins of multiplicity."
Fascinated elitist
Fragment Is Sometimes Used in a Multiple Collective (system, Group, Family) Who ...
G. ...perhaps, i used more then the 10 percent of my brain...
G. "Can two or more persons be present at once?"
G. "Does a diagnosis of DID automatically mean I have to be hospitalised?"
G. "If I get to know all my other personalities, does that mean I'm integrated and no longer multiple?"
G. "Please send me any links you can think of about..."
G. "Somedays it is frustrating for me to see the body of the person I love, but ...
G. "What is median? I also hear the word 'mid-continuum'."
G. "where I can find statistics about how common MPD is ...
G. There are many possible origins for a gateway system. Ask.
Greek
H. "Are there places where people talk about being multiple?"
H. "Can the host talk directly to an alter?"
H. "Could you explain the fact that multiples who 'switch' experience changes...
H. "Do you think crimes commited while you are another person are your responsibility?"
H. "Everybody has different sides to their personality."
H. "Please send me the names of all the books on non-trauma multiplicity."
Holographic Brain model
I. "Are there places where friends and family of multiples can get support?"
I. "Do people ever fake multiplicity?"
I. "I think my daughter's therapist is just making her think she's got all these other personalities. I never saw ...
I. "What about the severe headaches...
I. "What if I don't like some of them? Some of them are pretty scary!"
I. "Why don't you have any material on the diagnosis and treatment of multiplicity?"
Inclination toward plurality which is naturally present to all in some degree
It is irritating but in the 90's "recovered memory movement" thousands were misdiagnosed with MPD - little documentation
J. ...Presently my doctors do not believe my chemistry changes and reactions to meds...
J. "Do you have a message board?"
J. "Everybody has multiple personalities ... Aren't you just being a little more creative ...?
J. "Is it possible to have a person who goes by the birth name but who isn't the host or core?"
J. "my mother in law has dissociative disorder, and she has 10 personalities. In a few weeks they ...
K. "Do you have a chat facility?"
K. "I still don't get it. One body means one person. How can there be more than one person?"
K. "Is it possible to have several people who use the same name ..."
K. "We were also wondering if this obsticle could prevent them from joining together as 1."
L. "Are you affiliated with Divided Hearts, Mosaic Minds, Shattered Selves, Split Angels, Enchanted Wings, WeRMany..."
L. "How do you possibly keep track of over a thousand different alters?
L. "I'm writing a novel where one of the main characters has MPD."
L. "Is it possible for persons in a multiple group to be older than the body?"
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M. "Is it possible for some of the people in a multiple group to be the opposite sex from the body?"
M. "You name a lot of other pages ... Are these members of your group, or ...
Mind conditioned by societal and cultural cues in childhood
Most cases unproven
Multiple Code
Multiplicity may be in the closet, but it is not going to go away
N. "Is it possible for some of the people in a multiple group to be gay while others are straight, bisexual, asexual?"
N. "Is there any group for multiples that you do endorse or would recommend?"
Neural Net
O. "Is it possible for some of the people in a multiple group to be Christian while others are ..."
Oliver Sachs - accounts Multiplicity manifesting after a head injury
One never stops being multiple, but one learns to think and react with a single behavior pattern
Origin - It simply doesn't matter
Our Articles (Astraea)
P. "Is it possible for some of the people in a multiple group to be different races --
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Political Section
Politics
Publicity caused an ignoring of normal or below average intelligence
Q. "Is it possible for some of the people in a multiple group to be animals?"
Rather than Each Person in the Group Having Her or His Own Unique Response.
Read Andy's essay on integration
Read Multiple Personality Is Natural by Andy Temple
Recovery
Religion Links
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Research & Mental Health Professionals' Attention to writing about child abuse
rhymers' House
Self-acknowledged or self-identified multiple systems
Skewed the Sampling Statistics
Societal Demands and Expectations to Repress and Deny Parts of Mental and Emotional Life Declared off Limits
Societal Oppression
Some Are Not
Some of these people are Multiples
Sometimes a plural system will create fragments deliberately - called shells
Sometimes fragment is used as en extreme form of compartmentalization of thought and action though not everyone agrees
Spiritualistic
Stories
Sybil
Sybil Controversy
Sybil's Friend
The Experience of One or More Other People Sharing Your Body
The War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age
The word fragment is probably made up by Dr. Richard Kluft
Therapists see those with all types of psychology problems some of which are caused by child abuse
Throughout history people documenting Multiplicity have been frightened by the idea of documentation
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