Multiple Personality Disorder Cases

“Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) is a psychiatric condition characterized by the presence of multiple distinct identities or personality states within one individual, often resulting from severe trauma.”

This blog is amazingly occupied with Multiple Personality Disorder Cases that will fascinate your mind.

 

Billy Milligan

Billy Milligan was an individual who gained notoriety due to having multiple personality disorder, now known as dissociative identity disorder (DID). He was the subject of a highly publicized legal case in the 1970s involving multiple charges of sexual assault. Milligan’s defense team argued that some of his personalities committed the crimes without the others being aware. This case brought significant attention to DID and raised important ethical and legal questions about responsibility and mental illness.

He was born on 14 February 1955, he was born between many children as his mother has various relationship. His father could not run the family and expenses, ended up being a alcoholic and depressed. he committed suicide. His mother married a guy along with Billy Milligan used to live. The tragic phase of his life begins from here, his father abused, tortured and molested him even he was asked to dig a grave bed for himself and sleep there. Such incidents affected him majorly.

To get over from the severe mental and physical pain he got a thought, “what if these tortures are taken by some other so that I won’t experience any pain.” So whenever he got abused he used to imagine a person who used to take up that. Due to which 23 personalities was raised with him.

Billy Milligan- himself, the prime character.

Tommy-16 year old, saxophone player who was talented in escaping from a situation.

Arthur- British person, highly intellectual and passionate.

Ragen- powerful, knowing martial arts.

Danny- 14 year old, keeper of fear.

Christian- 3 year old girl, who used to play with dolls.

Adalana- 19 year old lesbian who cooked for all the personalities and craved affection and who had allegedly committed the sexual assaults.

Whatever he thought of carve for in life was converted into a person’s personality. He said that ” The 23  characters themselves know there are 23 people living along, and these 23 people are inturn having relationship with one among, but Adalana could not find any partner among these 22 personalities, so she committed the crime to fulfil her desire.”

The psychologist decided to introduce a character called “teacher” which would join all the personalities to form a single individual. The teacher (24th personality) was the most dominant and powerful one, which would control all the remaining characters from doing anything inappropriate.

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Kim Noble

Kim Noble is an artist from the United Kingdom who has gained recognition for her work depicting life with dissociative identity disorder (DID).

Kim had a traumatic childhood where her parents were in an unhappy marriage and she suffered the most among 3 of them. Somewhere between 1 and 3 – Kim suffered extreme and repeated abuse. And at this point her mind, traumatised beyond endurance, shattered into fragments, forming separate identities. Now, she has 100 personalities but 20 are main. Most of the principal personalities has no memories of abuse and no flashbacks. Thus she was protected from what had happened.

She behaved poorly in school. Her memory lapses and strange behaviour never understood. Abnormally poor memory is a classic symptom of DID. When there is a “Switch”, the new personality taking over does not know what has happened before they emerged.

Patriaca was the predominant among all the personalities, managed everything. Her every personality have their own email addresses- patricia dosen’t know their passwords; they buy clothes. Kim herself never understood why her car was parked so far from home, why she opens the door and for whom?

In 1977 Kim gave birth to Aimee. Patricia remained unaware she had a daughter, During the pregnancy, personality called Dawn was in charge. But following the trauma of the baby being taken away, Dawn retreated and super-efficient Hayley (another Personality) returned to the forefront. It was Hayley who began legal proceedings to claim Aimee back; then Bonny, a more excitable personality, took the fight through the courts. Eventually she was allowed to meet her daughter, and after being in under observations for months Aimee was allowed to live with her mother under a care order.

Everything has gone well. Aimee turned out to be a clever, pretty and intelligent girl.

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Jeni Hayens

Jeni Haynes is an Australian woman who has gained attention for her courageous public disclosure of living with dissociative identity disorder (DID). Her case id notable for the number of distinct personalities she has, reported to be over 2,500.

During her childhood, Jeni was repeatedly was sexually assaulted and tortured by her father, Richard Haynes, in what Australian police say is one of the worst child abuse cases in the country. To cope with the horror, her mind used a tecnique- creating new identities for her to detach from the pain. The abuse was so heart wrenching and persistent, she ultimately generated 2,5oo personalities to survive.

The Haynes family moved from Bexleyheath in London to Australia in 1974. Jeni was just four years old then, but her father begun his abuse way before, and in Australia this escalated into sadistic, near daily violations he used to enjoy every minute of the torture. He brainwashed his daughter into thinking he could read her mind, she said and due to this she was even unsafe in her own mind. He threatened to kill her mother, brother and sister if she even thought about the abuse and told them.

She composed her thoughts through song lyrics, to try to hide them, her father restricted her social activities at school to minimise other adult oversight. Jeni learnt to keep herself small and silent, if she were to be seen she would be punished. Her injuries developed into serious lifelong conditions Now Jeni has irreparable damage to her eyesight, jaw, bowel and anus.

The abuse would continue until Jeni was 11, when the family moved back to the UK. Her parents divorced.  The first personality Jeni says she developed was Symphony, the four year old girl who, she says, exists in her own time reality.

“She suffered every minute of Dad’s abuse and when he abused me, his daughter Jeni, he was actually abusing Symphony.”  Symphony used to warn her about the consequences what might happen and what not. When Symphony could’t bear the pain she started developing more personalities herself to endure the abuse. Each one of what be hundreds and hundreds of personalities had a particular role just to endure the abuse.  Her other personalities were;

Muscles- a teenager styled like Billy Idol. Tall and strong.

Ricky- only eight but wears an old grey suit.

Judas- short with red hair.

Rick- wears huge glasses

After the years of abuse Jeni was allowed to testify in court as Symphony and five other personalities, each of which would have shared different aspects of the abuse. The trial was heard by the judge only, because lawyers considered the case to be too traumatising for a jury.

Haynes initially faced 367 charges, among them multiple counts of sexual assault, indecent assault and carnal knowledge, physical abuse. Jeni, in her personalities, would have been able to provide detailed evidence on every single offence in court. The separate identities have helped her to preserve memories that might otherwise have been lost to trauma.