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Movies about Dissociative Indentity Disorder

Movies about Dissociative Indentity Disorder

Hoping others can introduce me to other movies they have seen on DIDs (or Multiple Personality Disorder as it was once termed) and by discussing our thoughts on these movies we can come to a deeper understanding of ourselves and others.

"The Three Faces of Eve" 1957 was an early movie with Joanne Woodward based on a true story and she did a brilliant performance. It also shows the understanding in psychiatry at that time and I had to wonder at the reason given for this woman's dissociation...but that's my thoughts given my own understanding. It also made me think of the effect social repression has on the human psyche and just how much of this woman's 'disorder' was due to the image women had to uphold in order to be treated with respect as a 'good woman'...nowadays we all joke about the 3 aspects of womanhood within just one woman?

"All Around Town" was based on a fictional book by Mary Higgins Clark and had the lot....reason, trigger, treatment and solution. Very much inline with my understanding of DIDs but of course in real life a solution coming from appropriate treatment in the way that occurred in the movie is pretty rare! Have also found DIDs can occur not just to the traumatic experience but the social or parental reaction to the person. A young child who is unable to express themselves to their parents or have the trauma 'verified' and hence that part of them accepted is forced to hide that part of themself.

Should haved checked on Utube to see if these movies are available.....wll do so now for links.

The Three Faces of Eve - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-B0_m6fW94

All Around Town - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXsj8K7apRw

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Yo Briar.....think it was something to do with going shopping and coming home with everything but what you originally went for.....really stunned as have never associated these realities with our DIDs..simply saw events at traumatic or intimate or 'conflicting self' times as triggers to transition...perhaps with myself it is so.....or perhaps a frequent occurrence that I was unaware of or put down to other reasons eh.....

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'former member' Briar...does that mean you have left the forum?....hope you are aok but thinking otherwise:((

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Sorry @DoneInDialogue. I'm okay. From what I can tell, some overly protective one-of-us deleted our account but I made another account and then the mods changed the screen name back to what it used to be. All good

How are you doing? This is a messed up time of year, hey?

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