It really is!!! Help is needed!! What's happened???

you just described my country's church and religious institution lol

Shirley was abused by the people writing this video.

@@danielrazulay Yep. I've seen it among people I know. Instead of dealing with their problems, they're told, "take a pill" as if that magically fixes personal issues, family relationships, etc. When you have the title of M.D., you're just assumed to always be right.

It does seem to happen too much.

Agreed. When she auditioned for the part, they laughed (because, after all, she was Gidget and the Flying Nun), until she started talking. They were stunned and knew immediately she was right for the part.

❤

I did the same. My fantasy family and friends were far safer than my reality yet always knew my conversations with them weren't real. It was extremely hard to stay in the current reality and hard to stop my fantasy life.

Mike McGomer Yes. OMH, WTF? Horrible.

@@rem2267 Unless it's filled with cocaine, then it's ok... Lol.

Archaic psychiatry is brutal!! They still eclectroshock autistic people :(

@American troll girl girl If a doctor pulled that out I would run like a turkey, they're fast...

Mike McGomer Yeah man, at first I thought it was an enema. Lol. 😱

oh the peoplllllle the peopllllleee

I know it. So sad.

Excellencebperformance but the little girl who played sybal stole the performance

Christine Von Lossberg It's interesting how one that has the ability to act can play different characters and make it appear like they really are two different people. I actually for fun made a cartoon of myself and played two different characters but it was a comedy and I really thought I did a great job and even changing my voice and personality.

Wish i cd see it ..luv sally great great actress

No, in all probability, Maddie (Shirley's mom) was a nice lady and a good mom. The abuse likely didn't happen, it was suggested to Shirley under the influence of pentothal, to which she became horribly addicted. The abuse came from Dr Wilbur.

@@RachelMills The movie exposes the horrible emotional and mental effects that sexual abuse has on a person, behavior that appears to be rampant these days on little children.

dizzzylizard I think you did an did excellent job describing it

dizzzylizard ...because we are similar, I'm going to be as respectful as I can possibly be. Without the Separate 'Others', it's not really DID, but DAD, that you have. Dissociative Amnesia Disorder. I Know this...only because I Do have the Others. This might be helpful to you... www.hanbleceya.com/blog/exploring-different-types-dissociative-disorders-necessity-treatment/

I know several people did. Personally I didn't like how it explained. Also a lot of people did I know get comfort out personality and don't seek integration but cohabitation. I'm sorry if this video offended u kinda of offended me

This sounds alot like dp/Dr more so as someone also commented dissociative amnesia. I have dp/Dr but the new name for mp being DID is a bit confusing

me too!!!

I am so sorry you had to go through that.

I’m so sorry pal, that’s truly awful. I really hope you are free from her ❤

Field

Preach! Well said. And the movie "Sybil" shouldn't be discounted because although made back in the late 70s it still shows to this day, whether or not the story of Shirley Mason is accurate or not, that the effects of child abuse are tragic and real and can lead to Dissociative Identity Disorder!

You explained that very well! Thank you.

@@raea3588 According to the book, Sybil, they found evidence to corroborate her story.

It isn’t rare, cause it doesn’t exist

Educate yourself. You're surrounded by those who are living with it!

Rachel A. Great comment

Great comment, and well written. I agree. However, no one knew the name "Dr. Wilbur" and everyone seems to know the name "Sybil." If she really wanted to get the attention the exposure needed, she had to use the title she chose. The story about Sybil having different personalities has been accepted as fact. It's a travesty.

Rachel A. Yet she did not exhibit until after the psychologist gave her a book on multiple personality. The dr knew how suggestable she was. And instead of getting peer reviewed for her work, she went to a journalist friend?

Joanie Kelstrup My point is that, whether she exhibited signs before or after this was not Shirley Mason's fault. It was Cornelia Wilbur's.

gurlgenius11 Yes, you're right. I just wish Debbie Nathan wouldn't speak as though Shirley was such a willing party to this in her book and lectures because it's not as simple as that.

absolutely and pain finds it's way back to the truth when health and care and love stay present.

I believe Shirley too. She stated, she does not have DID/MPD at all. true

Yes. Lolll. 😟😟

His show wasn't always the insanity it is now. He actually discussed very serious topics.

@@yourrnamee1280 Are you serious.???? Well, why did they say she did then??? I don't understand. It probably (her diagnosis) affected her entire life!!! 😥😥😥🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

@colette s That he did...loved his show when it wasn't a joke...

James Jeffrey Paul Yeah, heard so much about the Sybil tapes, I couldn't believe there was a sample in this video. Would be interesting to hear more. Wonder how much of her story was fabricated, and why Shirley went along with it, to the point of cutting off almost everyone in her past when the book was released.

James Jeffrey Paul Same thought I had! I really want to hear a full session. I wish whoever has copies would put them online.

Ni N Would like to see the entire TV segment w/Wilbur & Schreiber - I find the whole story fascinating.

I know! I was so excited too. creepy but awesome :)

But why did the doctor Wilbur leave Sybil $25,000.00??

i am happy for you, I hope your life is more peaceful now. Therapy is never easy.

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The film is "The Three Faces of Eve".

The real Eve wasn't 'cured'. And the doctors really ripped her off. I think Eve's REAL name is Chris Sizemore.

Yes, her name was Chris Sizemore. She wrote her own book(s) I believe on her life and diagnosis. DID cannot be cured only treated and Ms. Sizemore did experience healing over many years of therapy. She eventually lived as normal and happy a life as possible. Some of her original doctors did try to take advantage of her diagnosis I believe by sensationalizing it before she was well and able to consent to publicity. Including persuading her to sign away certain rights for "The Three Faces of Eve". However, the way Ms. Sizemore comes across in interviews she is not sorry that the story of her diagnosis, the first well documented diagnosis of DID, helped so many who do have it.

Joanne Woodward was incredible as Eve. She won the Oscar for that role.

I agree. My doctor was a colleague of Wilburs'. She was a God back then.

That's very interesting. Thanks for saying this here. It all seems SO strange to me!!!

I live in Louisville and I remember reading that Dr. Wilbur was teaching at the University of Kentucky at (or about) the time the TV movie aired. Her professional example shows the dangers of what might be called the "Score a Big Hit Syndrome." It goes well beyond psychiatry. When the supposedly stone age tribe called the Tasaday were "discovered" in the Philippines, their story became managed, shaped and rewritten by a lot of self-seekers to the point where it is unclear today how authentic they were.

Brian Arbenz , apparently not at all, but people paid to play the roles.

@@RebeccaOre , I have read of credible evidence that the Tasaday were likely real, not just actors. Some believe they were descendants of group which fled the agricultural tribes of the coastal regions of their island around the mid 1800s. That would mean they were not stone age, but retreatists whose group history was lost.

It probably came easy for her. Sally Field has multiple personalities too.

That’s not true. No she doesn’t. Sally field is an actress, a mother and an activist. She had a rough childhood, where she experienced horrific sexual abuse by her stepfather for about ten years. Started when she was 4:/ Most abuse survivors instinctively compartmentalize different parts of their personality well, as part of survival. Everybody does it on different levels, survivor or not. But abuse survivors do it more. Everyone’s different tho. Her book explains everything. She’s a remarkable lady with a good head on her shoulders. But her sad childhood doesn’t define her. I think her family and her career does. She’s amazing. Legend. 👏🏻

Yes, terrible!!! Should've never happened!!!! 😝😝😝😝

Not played along...guided/manipulated to that end.

That’s exactly what happened

Who

The case of Sybil was fabricated because extraordinary stories sell. The DID diagnosis is being kept alive by a few clinicians who apply it often, and recklessly. It's not a scientifically valid condition, and it is based in outdated Freudian theory. DID relies on the notion of repression, which is also not validated by scientific research. Elizabeth Loftus demonstrated how false memories can be induced by a clinician and labeled as "recovered" memories, and she took a lot of guff in doing so because the assumption of repressed memories had been fixated in the mental health community.

Same 😂😂😂

😂😂😂

Facts

Hahahaahahha

She FAKED every one of them....yup she admitted it.

When I was a teenager, my mother had me see her therapist ... We eventually got pretty close and he pretty much told me that he saw me as the daughter who ran off ... It was odd ...

What's wrong with a woman calling you sweetie? Women tend to do that to show love and compassion, especially towards children. There's absolutely nothing wrong with that. Now I don't know if Sybil's story is true or not, I have yet to read the book. But if she really was tortured by her mother, an older woman talking compassionate to you makes you feel like you are finally safe, like this is a mother figure that you never had. Idk about you, but I see nothing wrong with that.

@@steveb1164 Women calling men "sweetie" is harassment? My God, you're one of those people.

@@steveb1164 don't think so. I agree with Christina because I had gone through childhood sexual abuse before I was 5. And on top of it my mother never believed in me or spoke to me also she never once gave me a word of affection,hugs or encouragement. So she's right to say there is nothing wrong with that. Actually mental health has gotten a helluva lot worse since the 60s and 70s. Drs now want to keep you sick for the$.

No. There's nothing wrong with that. But Dr. Wilbur took advantage of Shirley Mason by molding her into what she needed her to be as a patient and as a daughter that she never had. That's what was wrong. It wasn't to help Shirley, even though we hope in the long run maybe some of it did, it was to help the psychiatrist herself.

I agree. And that some of the acting in the movie was terrible! However, let that Not detract from the fact that mental ills, and specifically D.I.D., are real. And, that it starts from abuse. And that people make mistakes. And, parenting is a huge issue. Abuse repeats generationally...”a gift that keeps on giving”.

And yes there were actual reports back years ago about people going to psychiatrists and then being convinced their dad sexually abused them, when they didn't. But again, that was media reporting, so was that true, and if it was true, was it just an isolated case with a bad psychiatrist or two, taking advanced of the woman. Probably, but not all psychiatrists. Just like all priests are not bad, or all coaches or all teachers or all police. A number of years ago you could get just about any certificate online and be whatever you wanted, with a degree to prove it. The media is an entertainment company and they LOVE to exaggerate on everything. If some story for the news is not entertaining enough, they add to it, give it a spin. Chop up a conversation and make it sound a different way. So don't always believe what you read, see and hear in this world. Even this entire comment. LOL

I was listening to the tape and thinking just that. That question was " so there were two Shirlies, one 11 and one older right? " That was like feeding someone thoughts and words.This was not real.

Sad!!! 😩😩😩😩

Sphinx Rising Maybe Dr. Wilber herself had a narcissistic personality disorder, driven by a need for recognition and $$$.

Kathleen Magee Scared me shitless!

Kathleen Magee what I can remember of it. Lol

It really affected me watching Sybil as a child. It exposed me to the fear and loneliness of an abused or neglected child and the helplessness of the situation. Neighbours and relatives may entertain suspicions but do nothing about it. It made me realize just how vulnerable children are and as a child myself it was scary to discover that adults were not all good people. Rather like the horror and disbelief when you learn about the Holocaust or war atrocities and realize that people witnessed these things and just carried on their lives as though everything was fine.

I watched it, too. When the movie was over, I told my mother that I think one of my classmates has this disease. I learned decades later that this classmate was sexually abused by a much older half brother.

@Kathleen Magee witless*

I like that analogy......

And the fourth face ,the one you don't show your wife.

That's not quite the same concept.

@@JoeSmith-zg7in Lol if you're a cartoon character

That IS a great analogy!

that's what I thought the entire time listening to this. it would make more sense not to introduce her to the disorder you want her to have because you're obsessed with the disorder. this seems... manipulative. not saying "sybil" didn't have psychological issues. just... I don't think she had DID.

Yeah she had other mental health issues.

People with multiple personalities disorder aren't aware of them until they realize what happening. I had friend who had seizure because of it and finally when the doctor explain what happening they were able to understand. They're not really happy with all their personalities and a quit a nice group of people to talk to and they doing really well.

Exactly sort of makes you wonder. I highly doubt someone could have all these personalities and be a college student. Hypnosis is questionable too. Made a great movie though

Msarie 05 completely agree

Interesting. That's why Shirley mason went looking for medical help.

Ok so MPD was renamed as DID in the 90s and since then the diagnosis and treatment is better. You haft to keep in mind that part of the reason why she didn't seem like a different person is because DID is a defence mechanism. When I switch you can barely tell the difference unless I let a person know or you can tell the subtle differences in body language but you haft to really be looking. That goes for most people with the disorder.

Zizi Scorsese agree

Zizi Scorsese lol

When I studied mental health (mh) the instructor told that there are many providers in the mh community who have mental illness theirselves.

The majority go into the profession to figure out what is wrong with themselves

Sometimes it is. And these days, it's the president who's the moronic hysteric.

Stevez61 No it’s still the media

#irony

@@candyjohnson3302 wow what a lovely person you are, name calling and stereotyping. Eat a big one.

Frank Quitely What? 90 million welfare recipients, $400,000,000 in different currencies sent covertly at night to our proclaimed enemy, spying on Americans, taxed us to the slowest economic GDP growth in our history, all on top of his ineptitude. He was a train wreck and I thank God that America was strong enough to survive it. It was miserable.

You will see her in glorious "health" when your time comes. This I know. He is All.

I'm so sorry

Well hysteria, as a psychiatric disorder, isn't really a thing nowadays. Now it usually falls under other diagnosis. However, on Freuds time, when hysterics was a common diagnosis, there were some male cases even though the diagnosis of females was much more frequent. Read his Studies on Hysteria for more information.

P Heart I know some men given to hysteria

Smarter Than You well I guess you are smarter than me

P Heart riiiiiight?

it could happen. men are sometimes described as hysterical. just not as often

To be clear, many patients with eating disorders are overweight and bulimia presents as overeating followed by purging.

Oh good lord, for a second I thought you ment you have 55 personalities! Lol, I was guna have to fight you or something. Oi, *sorry*😶... that's *not* what you were saying, lol. Sure though, you're probably right. PTSD sounds plausible. Of course, what the heck do *I* even know 🤓

Alan Smithee LOL-- 55, THAT would be a lot of plate spinning, eh? Yes, what do any of us really know? Life is just one big improv, innit? Take care!

1060michaelg Brilliant comment, very insightful. True, that one woman (and Shirley, and all the others who have agreed with the MPD/DID diagnosis) *should* have put the brakes on from the beginning, but mentally ill people, especially victims of horrific abuse, frequently do not have the inner strength and resources to say to a figure of authenticity that they are wrong. Distorted ideas of the role and reach of 'authority' is expected, really; it's supposed to be the therapist's duty to not take advantage of injured people, and many therapists have failed in their duties because of their own weak minds, greed, peer pressure, and so on. And I'm inclined to agree with you that, had this all been dealt with appropriately from the outset, we'd likely have a different, more accurate definition of PTSD, cPTSD, and so on. As it is, many therapists and most Americans have a confused idea of what mental illness is, and a muddied understanding of the difference between psychiatric and psychological disorders (and their respective tools and implications). I'm happy that you are making sense of what has happened to you without falling for the showy nonsense.

*authority, sorry

Taticat NineLand Thanks for your awesome comment...beautifully stated and well informed!

as an "intellegent" women myself i can tell you life is not always easy. I think that intellegent people think more deeply wich would lead to unhappiness and depression

M so true!!!

Torie Paige thinking to deeply can be done by people with no education.

You're very right.The higher IQ and (sometimes) wealthier people I know are often the least happy.I have to admit I'm from a fairly brainy upper middle class background.I'm hardly boasting about it.It can make living easier materially,but that's the extent of it.

Torie Paige. You're "Intelligent", yet you can't spell it. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

agreed

I agree, that was very sexist and out moded

Nurse Grace

This made, by doctors. what a shame! ice hockey

NG: You are inferring far too much into a single word. Dr. Speigel never claimed any of what you said. Don't try to drag old psych interpretations into the discussion. Go read what Dr. Speigel wrote about her and his experiences and problems with Dr. Wilbur.

Ema Hansen People in the DID community can tell when someone hasn't done all their homework. You use the term dissAssociate. There is no A in the middle of dissociate. It's Dissociative Identity Disorder. Don't feel bad, people who are mental health professional's make the same mistake. At least you know enough not to call it multiple personalities. Compared to those who deny the existence of the disorder, you're quite a few steps ahead. Study more and you can start to dispel the myths about therapist induced traumatic memories being implanted. Very few therapist's treat the disorder after the false memory scares of the past. Those still willing to work with DID are very careful to follow treatment guidelines for the most part. Not that bad eggs aren't still around, but ask people with DID and most will tell you the therapist had nothing to do with planting traumatic memories. My therapist rarely let's me talk about the traumas in the past yet. That can be year's down the road in therapy if you follow the ISSTD treatment guidelines. If you don't know what ISSTD stands for, you have some more homework to do. There are studies you can read, but not many. Not a lot of research has been done because of a lack of funding. But do some deeper research and you'll find the iotrogenic myth has been dispelled. Just don't tell the people that still believe in the false memory syndrome. They're on a weird witch hunt to disprove the fact that young children are being abused. Makes you wonder about the reason why? I don't comment on their content. I appeal only to those with open minds to do further study. Your mind is open so I hope you'll go to the ISSTD and do further studying. It's a good website.

Totally this I remembered the abuse and even found proof of it outside of therapy I only talked about it in therapy. I never call myself different names I just space out and it feels like looking through someone else's eyes and afterwards I don't remember anything. Sure I heard names in my head but I don't know about them and they don't "switch" out... It is not as histrionic it is more like PTSD gone wild... I am pretty sure it is wayyy overdiagnosed but I don't care!

The "iatrogenic myth" you speak of is probably the only real aspect of this "disorder".

You "did a very interesting study" and now you're an expert? DID exists on a spectrum with those severely affected and those who are able to maintain a semblance of normality. No one has to convince a person who truly has DID that something is wrong. They are already struggling and oftentimes very frightened. I have been diagnosed with DID. I am highly intelligent (a characteristic of DID sufferers) as evidenced by my writing and communication skills and I am very strong-willed. I am not fragile nor suggestible. I'm a survivor of on-going early childhood sexual abuse and violence that began before the age of 4. Read the manual on mental health diagnoses for Pete's sake! Therapy has been very helpful for me, but I suffered prolonged symptoms while I was being treated by a psychiatrist who refused to believe that DID was real. I now see a trauma-informed therapist who has at least eased my feeling of isolation at suffering from a malady that for some reason is so controversial. It's a thing. Deal with it. My God, it's bad enough that we have been victimized by our own parents as small children, but then having to listen to this arrogant crap is just too much! DID is the most extreme form of ptsd. It is the result of extreme early childhood trauma and is the mind's way of allowing children to escape the unthinkable. You are not an expert. You seem incapable of realizing that people with DID are suffering. We are people. Not some fictional show you enjoy on television. This entire conversation disgusts me.

Serai3 I think it did are in the United States too. Sounds familiar

Oh, didn't know that! I tried to look up airdates but could only find references to it airing in Australia.

Sweet - thanks!!

I live in the United States and I've seen it. The whole movie was uploaded to KZfaq at one point, just in segments of about 10 minutes each. In some ways, it's scarier than the 1976 version!

I watched it in Australia back in 2008. It was one of those random movies on cable tv i watched out of boredom but it always stuck with me. Great movie

The tape on the woman's chest and shoulder was the icing on the cake of hideousness.

They probably just wanted to look nice and overdid it.

@@ArchieLovesMe THANK UUUUUUU....WAS LOOKING TO SEE IF ANYONE ELSE CAUGHT THIS...😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣

Anna B The more vocal guest was the co-author of the book Sybil, not a psychiatrist.

Anna B lol! I came looking specifically for this comment! 😂 That ball gown though!

I use to call my daughter Reagan..(The Exorcist) Still could. Lol..

Me too!😡 I hated it. She'd laugh.

Mine too! That or Helen Keller.

You are so right!

True that!

What time? In the 70’s. It’s the new millennium boomer.

Joanne Woodward did not play the doctor in Sybil

Yes she did... She is an amazing actress so is Sally Field

Just like Patty Duke played Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker then later played her teacher Annie in a remake of the movie.

I saw both of those movies when I was a little girl.

Becky Lieb you were born in the 90s right? Either that or you’re brain dead or both

😨😨😨 It's very shameful to do this!!!! Lord Jesus help us all!!

They were already ill. Their doctors manipulated and exploited them.

That's what they still do to this day

@@melthomas6519 Stfu

It's disturbing that anyone would show an ABC Movie of the Week as some kind of an educational film in a psychology class.

"Sergio Lobato" the power of suggestion.

"So called experts"

Haha only ignorance is why people don't trust experts

I was horribly abused as a child. I'm a survivor. Sometimes, if something very traumatic occurs, I have disassociated but I'm still me. I just occasionally lose time...because I "leave" when something is horrible. I'm on three meds now and not very high doses. Its helped and so has maturing. Theres hope

Thank you for your comment. I too have suffered with DID and am much better but only after years of therapy and hard work. Hope your mom is doing okay.

Brandie, what you are describing sounds more like dissociative amnesia than it does dissociative identity disorder.

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Brandie Blank could have been absence seizures associated as less severe than an epileptic seizure but a form of it.

Everyone dissociates. It's creating alter personalities and fractured personalities that turn treatment into a witch hunt for events that never happened in the first place.

yep, daydreaming is a form of dissociation...moments of forgetfulness too (like when you know you are going someplace that means you have to make a left but you make a right out of what you dismiss as a habit).

Schizophrenia is very biological. Multiple personalities seem to be more psychologically caused; you're not born with Multiple Personalities. Children's behavior can often be an indicator of future psychotic issues.

People are not born with schizo. They’re not born with bipolar, etc. They develop it. Sometimes slowly, sometimes suddenly. Relatively few ills are hard-wired genetic...those show in the fetus, or immediately at birth or shortly after birth. Most ills that develop, are a combo of genetic weak points + learned behaviors + environmental factors, etc. Biological function absolutely is part of psychological function, of experiential function. Trying to separate those away from each other, is dysfunctional! What we experience, 24/7/365, can and does affect our biology, which can and does affect our psychology, and vice versa. One of the most badly mistaken models in medicine, is that a single-element is the only cure, and/or, that one body system can be segregated from other body systems and treated without doing anything for the other systems, and, that cookie-cutter medicine works for everyone. Everything is connected; when one system has an injury or illness, that affects the others. The really hard issue, is determining What the Root Causes of some illness really are; of getting as close as possible to really treating the root causes. Germs are not a root cause, for instance...germs cannot trigger illness unless the body’ defenses are faulty. Schizophrenia, depression might appear to be caused by neurotransmitter imbalance, if we stop looking more deeply..but...what caused that? And, why has medicine clung obstinately to refusing to allow or believe that what we eat, Matters, that nutritional repletion, Matters? (And a laundry list of other weird attitudes).

Yeah but TBF the difference here is that people who develop MPD (That I've heard of or seen studies of) don't have any family history of it generally speaking. People who develop schiz or depression, for instance, can and do have long traceable family histories of it. Not only that but a child of a schizophrenic is significantly more like to also have schizophrenia when compared to that of the average population. So these illnesses can and ARE biologically based and not just environmental. Not to say that MPD couldn't be real I'm just stating that schiz as an example can be genetic and not triggered by truama persay.

Emily H , Kinda what I said...genetic weakness towards something, can cause it to show-up in repeating generations...Then, that is hard to tease-out, because, how much is from genetics, and how much is from triggers/poor early childhood, like abuse/neglect? IF/When other triggers push it to manifest; IF those triggers don't happen, the ill tends to not show up. Genetic factors can be scant, or can be very significant..there's a range. So, some with little genetic propensity, may not show Schizo until they are in their 20's, for instance...but someone with a larger component of genetic weakness towards it, might show signs of Schizo in early childhood. Increasing numbers of Psych Docs are starting to understand, there is a rather large "emotional/spiritual distress" component that seems to be a major trigger to manifest mental ills...not just MPD/DID, but also Bipolar, Schizo, etc. HOW ills repeat in generations of same family [remember... abuse/neglect is a "gift that keeps on giving, repeating generationally. Abuse/neglect triggers emotional/spiritual distress. AND, families tend to repeat generationally, what they choose to eat and drink...nutrition absolutely makes a difference...poor nutritional repletion, is itself a trigger for mental ills...can cause them to start, make them worse...and, done right, can help heal them. Hard part is, though, few Docs test for nutritional deficiencies, and even less try using nutritional helps. And, there is the "Learned behavior" component...Kids LEARN how to mimic their caregivers...it seems "normal" behavior to them, and, they become unwitting victims of others [not family] dysfunctional behaviors, over their lifetimes, unless and until they figure this out, and try to change how they interact with people to more functional patterns. One classic pairing, is the Substance Abuser and a Co-Dependent.

No one is dismissing schizophrenia. We're dismissing demonic possession. The human body is basically plumbing and wiring with some architecture to hold it together. It seems logical that there could be wiring problems between the 2 hemispheres of the brain that could lead to multiples. Have you ever seen the phantom hand syndrome that results when the 2 hemispheres are separated to help control very frequent epileptic seizures? If one hand could do things without it's owners knowledge, why not complete or partial personalities? Just a thought.

Little to no air conditioning. The horror.