Inside Karen’s Crowded Mind

I'm very gratefuol for this story, when i was years old we found out my mother had MPD. She had 13 very diffrent personalities. Each had different ages. I remember one that was about 2 or 3 years old and wouldn't speak at all and would wet herself. Another was 13 and used to play dolls with me and had a very different voice from that of my mother. The one that was 16 was extremely suicidal and used to run arund the house pounding on windoes, then slash her wrists. My mom still carris all these scars. MPD is a very real thing, and yes it is very rare. We late found out that starting from the time my mom was 2 she bagan to be sexually abused by her uncles, later on she had a step father who would rape her until she ran away from home. While on the streets a man took her captive in his basement for several months raping her whenever he chose to until she once again escaped. It took many years in therapy for her t get to where she is today. Today all the personalitie have been reconnected, thought she still fights many of the memories because they were extremly tramatic. During the time we found out about this we used to be avid churchgoers, our pastor at the time said that my mom was demon possesed. This kind of belief is so backwards it's sad. People who would deny that there could be an actual physical answer because of traumas in the past have such closed minds they can't see the forest through the trees. I hope that this book sheds light on this very real problem and makes to so that people may be open to talking about it more. This problem is not demon possesion it's simplythe minds way of dealing with troubling events.

This is an issue I have an intense interest in. I agree that multiple personalities occur...more often than we think.

I wrote a short story entitled, The Shadow People, about a woman dealing with MPD. Anyone interested in reading it can find it here: www.Writing.com/authors/angelshadow7

I am a believer of emotional dissorders. There are things that happened to me that were forgotten until I was an adult having my own children. How can you forget? I get true physical symptoms when in or around certain situations. I can not breath. I feel clostaphobic. I will verbally snap at one of my children as if I am just in an irritable mood, but in actuallity my neck is hot and I get to where I can not think straight and I just want them to get out of my space. I have never said this and sometimes I just say I have a headache. I was verbally, and physically abused by both my adopted mom and birth mom. I remember a time when I was in grade school. It was late and my mom was yelling at me . She was always on me and many times literally . She would sit on top of my stomach, place one hand over my mouth, and hit me with the belt, shoe, or sticker branch. This time I was exhausted and could not deal with her any more. She had hit me so much, and yelled that I desperately needed a break. She finally came back into her room where she had sat me down or I had ended up after trying to run from her and Raggedy Ann told me to wait there with her behind a brick wall. Their dog was with us. As she stood on my left Andy said not to come out and he let go of my right hand. I liked it there, but it was like hiding in a small room. I didn't want to stay just standing there forever. When I woke up-or came to-my mom was wailing on me with a belt and I know I must have had a very confussed look on my face. I asked my mom why are you hitting me in my sleep. She said what? I am not even awake and you are hitting me for no reason. She said that I was wide awake and talking back to her. I had suppressed this memory for years(the whole event) when one day I bought a raggedy Ann and Andy coloring book for my daughter. As I was coloring in it one day it all came back to me. I will never forget how he helped me get through that night and was there for me......Or me for myself......I also had an imaginary friend and her name was shooter. She was nice and okay. She was a bit of a tomboy and was not a girl that my mom would have approved of because of her lack of edicit(?)Any way she seem to come to mind, so to speak, when I was in my mom's bathroom. She became a little mischievious in a mean way and I tried hard to not think of her... This went on for a long time as the abuse never did stop..Until one day the thought of poison of some kind in my mom's coffee was tempting. Thank God there was not any under the sink or convinient anywhere. I think that I decided not to be friends with her because she was going to or encourage me to hurt or kill my mom. At times I loved my mom almost as much as I hated her.

It's called ACTING. This condition is so bogus that you can even ask many psychiatrists about it's validity and they will say it's nonsense. In this age of psychiatry EVERYONE can be fitted to some condition they've made up. The worst part of it all is they are doing it to every kid out there now. Thanks to an ex-wife who thought she was so knowledgable that she didn't need my parenting input, only it's money, and a psychologist that has had my child on one drug after another since he was 6 years old I know have an adult that thinks all problems are dealt with by taking a pill. And yet that doesn't work. I'm sick of the idiocy of most of you people that can't take responsibility for yourselves. IT'S SICKENING AND IT'S RUINING OUR COUNTRY. It's making us so weak we'll be lucky to survive. It sickens me that it's allowed to go on and my childs life gets ruined until he wakes up to what's happening, if he ever does.

You know why this patient was so difficult doctor? Because they were putting you on. This isn't a game people. Wake up and take responsibility for your behaviors.

As an adult diagnosed 3 years ago with DID Karen has all my empathy and then some. I understand the hell she had to have gone through and could still live today. I have lost members of my family who do not believe in this diagnosis and who do no longer recognize me as a family member. I have been hospitalized more times than I can count both at my local medical center and at the MacLean Hospital in Boston.

Comment to: flibidyflob: I'm sorry that you feel that you were left out of parenting your son. You could be right, he could be too dependent on meds now. But if you want to have a relationship with him, you can't be so negative about how his life has gone so far. If you remain negative, he might take meds just so he doesn't turn out like dear old dad. Be less negative, less critical of his mother but still be honest with him. If you ask him if he'd consider trying to live life without meds, it means a commitment on your part. A commitment to to not be negative, a commitment to encourage him to get healthy in all aspects of his life including diet, exercise, spiritually. But most of all letting him know that if all else fails, and he has to go back on meds, that you will still love him as your son. Because you would rather have him here alive and on meds than dead and free of meds. It's all about forgiveness and unconditional love. So forgive your wife and love your son unconditionally. Perhaps they will forgive you and love you unconditionally also.

She made this all up, come people don't be so gulable, she just wants attention, probably another ugly lonely woman who wants attention. They always are!

Oh, for pete's sake, not this garbage again. This is the nonsense of recovered memories again, a fad psychological theory that has been debunked by good research. The phenomenon of DID/MPD is created in people with attention-seeking personality disorders within social groups of other "survivors" of abuse or in therapy with quack therapists. The diagnosis is highly controversial, because most well-trained psychologists and psychiatrists realize that the condition is created by suggestion and that the "recovered memories" of abuse are unlikely to be true. People are TAUGHT to be multiple. You can watch the process yourself on any message board for abuse survivors. The typical "survivor" goes through a long period of doubting her memories and fearing that she is making them all up....because she is. It is through the encouragement of quack therapists and other "survivors" to accept dreams and imagination as memories that the pornographic stories of horrific child abuse and satanic rituals come to be accepted as truth. It is because of this kind of bad therapy and social influence that we saw the "Satanic Ritual Abuse" scares in the 1990's, and it took thousands of dollars and a full-scale FBI investigation to show that the ridiculous stories of widespread networks of cults sexually abusing children did not actually exist. The diagnosis of MPD/DID is given by a subset of quack therapists who are looked upon with disdain by well-trained psychiatrists and psychologists. They make people WORSE by teaching them to uncover bogus repressed and dissociated memories of abuse. Every time we think repressed memories have been thoroughly debunked, another garbage news story like this surfaces to get everyone all excited. The existence of MPD/DID shows that the cancer of repressed memory therapy is still alive in mental health today. Until we get these quacks out of business, women will keep developing false memories of abuse, and their lives will continue to be destroyed as they withdraw from their families and center their lives around being abuse "survivors." What a horrible article, and what a disservice to mental health in this country.

GOOD LORD!!!!!!!! I AM AMAZED THAT THIS QUACKERY IS STILL ACTIVELY IN USE, BY A FEW OF THE MOST EDUCATIONALLY RESISTANT FOLLOWERS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL CHARLATANS!!! USING CHARISMA INSTEAD OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE, AND REGURGITATING IATROGENIC ALLY PRODUCED PATIENTS STORIES- WITH A SERIOUS LACK OF IMAGINATION, TO THE POINT OF BORING ME TO DEATH. WHATEVER HAPPENED TO CRITICAL THINKING? WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO THE THIRST FOR KNOWLEDGE?
WHY DO THESE THERAPIST CLING TO THE PAST, AND WELL DEBUNKED BELIEFS, SUCH AS MPD AND DID; WHEN TOP SCIENTIFIC PSYCHIATRISTS OF THE WORLD, AND MEDICAL ASSOCIATIONS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD HAVE WARNED ABOUT THE HARM THE OLD THERAPEUTIC TECHNIQUES USED BY DOCTORS; SUCH AS DR. BAER, DR. BRAUN, DR PUTNAM, DR COLIN ROSS, AND THE LIKE. WHO HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFULLY SUED FOR MILLIONS FOR MEDICAL MALPRACTICE AND FRAUD. HOW TERRIBLY TRAGIC THAT THIS PATIENT, KAREN SUFFERED NEEDLESSLY FOR SEVENTEEN YEARS IN FRAUDULENT THERAPY!!!! WHEN PERHAPS, ONLY A YEAR OF PROPER THERAPY COULD HAVE SAVED HER AND HER FAMILY FROM NEEDLESS TRAUMA INFLICTED UPON THEM BY A FANATICAL QUACK.

no matter what you call it, it all stems to another controversial issue? Demon Posession

What a load of crap!!!!!!!!!
This Karen Overhill story is total fantasy brought about by the brainwashing techniques of a misquided and /or money making quack.
How many more innocent families will be destroyed by this nonsense and indeed, how many more preventable deaths must we suffer before the last nail is hammered into the coffin of dangerous pschotherapy?
My poor mentally ill/suicidal daughter was subjected to this recovered memory crap, sprinkled with multiple personality disorder brainwashing and in only a few short months, her God damn therapukes managed to drive her insane.
At the end of her young life (25) she was left totally isolated, penniless and thanks to these bastards, without her loving family, (Mom, Dad and her loving younger brother, only 15 months younger than herself).
Without hope she became totally psychotic/delusional, hanged my precious 2 yr. old grandaughter, then my poor demented daughter hanged herself.
The malpractice and gross negligence has been proven by forensic psychiatric study into this case, however, there is no law against what these radical feminist bitches have done and they were Government/United Way funded to boot!
Am I bitter, damn straight! I, a grieving mother/grandmother living in this supposedly best country in the world, (Canada) will never have closure or justice in this worse of cases regarding mental health quackery.
My beautiful son, who is very close to me and knows how terribly ill his sister was, yet, never thinking this could have happened, has chosen to leave this country and is now living and working on a beautiful island.
Guess there is still a God.
Claudette Grieb
St. Catharines, Ontario
Canada
cgrieb@cogeco.ca

I think my girl freind has this problem. Its crazy to deal with. Im going to leave her.

I am so sad and really upset with the ignorant comments I have read here tonight. Especially the ones that judge from their chairs and couldn't possibly understand what someone with DID has coped with all of their life. I have been dx with DID since 1994 and am just now with a therapist who has the compassion and trustworthyness to actually deal with and not judge me/us. WE are at least 16 living in one body and most are children or teens and some adults. Do you have any idea what it is like living with the pain the shame the horror of memories and confrontations with your abuser. Oh I am so sad for you that have the predjudices you have towards something you don't understand. I have not read or seen the movie Sybil and won't because I fear that anything that might sound like what I have gone thru would be minimized if it was similar. I fear or those inside fear not being believed and most of us that I know that have been dx'd with the same do not seek attention we seek understanding and understanding the reality of why we have felt so depressed or anxious and yes we have 2 grown children that love me/us and know some of my insiders and that has been the real blessing they do believe and have played with the children and you that are so cruel and call this dx brought on by the mental health professionals need to look into being a bit more understanding and compassionate. I also had a husband that committed suicide due to his own problems but it wasn't the mental health professionals that drove him to it.

This is really not that hard to believe. If you understand who the illuminati are then you probably know she is a generational mind slave. Research it!!!