Just wondered if anyone saw this last night at 9pm on channel 5... if so what did you think?

I thought it was very interesting... Such a shame tho that one has a drink problem and one self harms...

Adam was a cutie :)

didn't see the programme so can't comment directly but haven't all woman got this many personalities

I didn't see this but years ago there was a famous 'case history' which became a film called 'The Three Faces of Eve".

I think it's called a Dissociative Identity Disorder, or something like that. Did she move between the identities in an arbitrary manner or did certain events trigger teh emergence of particular personalities?

Joe

I saw this and really did think it was a spoof never seen anything like it in my life , but i did have too laugh at it sometimes in the programme

I think it's called a Dissociative Identity Disorder, or something like that. Did she move between the identities in an arbitrary manner or did certain events trigger the emergence of particular personalities?

Yup - it was explained at the beginning that the woman (Helen) was suffering from dissociative idenity disorder. More commonly known as multiple personality disorder.

Helen seemed to move randomly between personalities although Adam appeared most frequently. She explained she thought he'd emerged to protect her as well as reclaim some of the childhood she felt she'd missed. I was intrigued by that - I have a couple of friends who felt they missed out on their childhoods (due to different kinds of abuse) & both have been drawn to relive their childhoods in various ways - although not to the extreme Helen appeared to be.

I could have done with the programme being longer. I wasn't surprised by the general point that the psychiatrists didn't really have any answers but it'd have been interesting to hear Helen talk more about not wanting to 'lose' all of her personalities. She explained that she'd miss the ones, like Adam, who didn't cause her any harm. I've heard interviews with schizophrenics explaining how they resented, to some extent, having to surrender their personal reality in order to fit in with what the rest of the world considers normal.



Helen (http://www.mymultiplesclerosis.co.uk/misc/personalities.html)

Times Online (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7946-1311654,00.html)

I missed the first half.
Did they explain how she actually manages to live? If she is Adam when she is out how does she cope on her own? Is she cared for by others?

It was a shame they couldn't shed more light on the disorder but I thought the psychiatrist who thought it was false memory was talking ****e.

Like pitsmoor, at times I wondered if it was for real. I would stand corrected but I thought that one of the psychiatrists actually said that he considered that it wasn't for real and more like role play for the sufferer.

How could she be living alone if when one of her characters took over she didn't know what she was doing? Surely she was a danger to herself and anybody else in close proximity?

She did seem a very tormented soul.

I thought it peculiar that apart from the reference to her sexual abuse, no mention was made of relatives or her childhood home life.