Movies about Dissociative Indentity Disorder

A not so good representation is 'Me, Myself and Irene'. It is supposed to be schizophrenia, but they talk about split personalities and Jim Carrey's character often dissociates into an alter at times.

I have MPD. I haven't found any movies helpful as they seem to dramatise the disorder. I was diagnosed by my psych and at the time found it a hard one. The nurses said it didn't exist leaving me confused. My personalities are not violent, they are helpful. Wouldn't be without them. There is a book I found helpful though, Multiple personality disorder from the inside out by Barry M Cohen Ester Giller Lynn W

Sybil remake 2007 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXsj8K7apRw

Tawny, had forgotten about the Sybil movies, thanks for reminder.

This also reminded me of the book 'When Rabbit Howls"......both women experienced severely abusive childhoods where many many personalities formed in order to cope.....where each personality froze at the time and a new one emerged....interesting concept of therapy in the Sybil remake where Jessica Lange takes Sybil, through hypnosis, through each stage and personality as step by step she integrates all into the present age.

Oh what a joy to have the one committed and caring professional! Not a common reality with most dealing with DIDs?...I had to get whatever help wherever I could find it and do the work myself....my rational intellectual self could only really do this so the feelings and fragmentation remain although I found by 'doing a ceremony' I brought all my young selves together and placed them in a safe room closed off in my mind - safe and protected and unable to influence the older selves....have found no means of integrating the major older selves and find living as a hermit the best way of 'being at peace'.....as I am older now and don't have to constantly deal with the world and survival and all the many people one encounters.....cheers

Maggie.....agree about many not accepting the reality of MPD and seems to show the lack of any exploration of the mind and how it works.....an essential I would think in this day and age where the mind has been at the forefront of exploration!....as for psychiatrists, can be so dangerous when they don't know what they're doing!

As for dramatising - how I felt about the United States of Tara....was glad to see the concept explored especially by Toni Collette.....yet how could she exist in such fragmentation when surrounded by knowledge of her many selves and a stable and caring family?....so much occurs only when under incredible stress and without the knowledge and support of others?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRBZ0Kjisl4

Just found this discussion on the effects of the study of Sybil and it's repercussions within the psychiatric fields and the use by the media in MPD 'hysteria'....

Doctors forcing questions or diagnoses on patients is definite no-no...can be so incredibly dangerous and damaging.....in my experience a person's own psyche will bring matters to the fore WHEN they are ready to deal with them!

I too live like a hermit. The one person who has helped me is my Social Worker. She knew nothing about DID until she met me, and together we have learned, laughed cried philosified etc. psychs seem to discard the whole thing and you end up feeling insane. I knew one other person with the disorder who also withdrew. Seems the only way to survive.

Thanks Maggie, Tawny and Briar.....have not really met others I can speak to about my experience of DID either and it does feel gratifying for others to affirm the need for withdrawing into hermithood, finding ONE person who can help with diagnosis and analysis.....I found a psychologist who dealt mainly with children and used sandplay therapy....for someone who has an incredibly analytical and rational side this proved invaluable for my understanding of why and how!.....our sessions involved choosing symbolic forms to lay out in the sandbox, photographing them and me going away from each session analysing each scenario and returning to the next session with my interpretation....it was like laying out my mind and understanding it..it was through her that I learnt to 'do a ceremony' where I gathered together all my young children and placed them in a secure and safe and separate section of my mental universe......still there but secured in a room where they no longer influenced my behaviour and reactions....I acknowledged their prescence, validated their experiences and hence nullified their effects on the present....

I believe there are now three major identities to deal with yet feel helpless in life in situations of stress or intimate relationships, even social sitautions....all of which relies on others being aware and supportive....so often this knowledge can be used as a tool to manipulate and use against one adversely, but more usually simply an inability of others to believe people exist in many differing forms......can knowledge ever allow an individual to make use of these 'abilities of self' for their own benefit...or at least not to their own detriment or to the detriment of others?

I may be deluding myself but rather than viewing this as a 'disorder of the mind' I prefer to see the possible potential of the abilities of the human mind and how they can be incorporated into our human understanding of how our minds can work!