Meet the six personalities living in this woman's head

I don't want you doing the straw birds I can wash him the right and Papa he has to have his coffee then my mom dad and Chrissy wants to have her juice oh and I know where the pink doughnuts are breakfast time is a busy time at the pillow ha the only place busier than the kitchen is Christine Patil oh that's mine I'm just extra special Tristan you are extra special what do we have going cindy was just out Christine has six other personalities called alters oh my and Danny living inside her head you don't like blueberries and your pancakes either do you I don't actually mind them she despises fruit all distinct and different all with their own voice I can hear them if I'm paying attention they can look out through my eyes and they can see what's ever in my peripheral that one more out that is two year old Cindy the rest of the gang is there called will introduce themselves I'm Christine I'm Christie I'm Tristan the lone male I'm she I am Q I do all the beads Oh Christine has dissociative identity disorder formerly known as multiple personality disorder it's recognized by the American Psychiatric Association and affects just a fraction of 1% of the population I of course always get the plate who's my wife gonna partner up or I'll be the shuffle ER doctor say Christine's brain got shuffled fractured is the clinical term when she was a little girl I just seem to be going the wrong direction all the time and that's different from when oh that's what I'm going to do yeah here shebang that didn't work out well for me off Christine suffered physical and emotional abuse from her father throughout her childhood and what can be politely described as torturous sexual abuse at the hands of a neighbor from the ages of 7 to 9 her childhood a cruel game of survival that was complete being imprisoned in my mind drawings Christine did in therapy show the violent battles inside her head doctors say when the brain can't handle any more abuse it fractures into different personalities and each one often serves a purpose instead of Christine suffering the sexual abuse rim a tough tomboy would appear and absorb the shame the alter she a gruff 30 year old lesbian would come out and take on the abuse from Christine's father but as Christine got older the personalities that once protected her turned there's a little bit of a triangle scar from a tip of an iron rim led Christine to the dangerous world of drugs and promiscuity Christine waking in places with people she didn't remember alter she was the worst abuser and we have a scar on our or in our hairline from when she smashed a picture frame she i if she used to smash smash pots and pans on us and we'd have really big gnarly bruises and burns burning was a big thing it went on for years it's so frightening to feel like you don't have access to your mind or can keep controller that people think that you're a freak or that something's going on it's been a trying 26 years of marriage to say the least for Christopher the couple never had children because between Christopher Christine and her six other personalities eight was enough he's been husband father friend and enemy often all within the same 60-second span the diagnosis 10 years ago answered a lot of questions for him one question however never needed answering why did you say this is my life and this is my wife and it's a beautiful thing and and I love being on the journey with her come on Dixie girl let's go for a walk duty commitment after two decades of therapy christine has come to control the people living in her head but all as well it is the abuse from her other personalities is stopped and Christine lives a relatively routine life in fact the alters are actually helping her to better integrate into society these are my bead people everything I make is one-of-a-kind this is Q who has started her own small business selling beaded jewelry Christine watches Q do this from inside her own head and feels inspired to do more in public herself for Q it's more about changing others not the six alters different is uncomfortable for a lot of people and and we're just trying to make our different not be so spooky or so confusing to people one major step in that direction the book Christine is written about her experience one faced with seven voices hoping to bring understanding and acceptance to a disorder so hard to comprehend we're at a place where we can be in society as a person with multiple personalities and that we have an ability to talk to people and help them become more aware about a condition that is confusing and terrifying to people sometimes my poppy ultimately many with this illness hope to meld all the personalities back into one so they can lead a so-called normal life cloud of butterflies above a purple lilac bush but for the Patil O's this is normal and this is the way they'll stay it is my family and it is a family that I would never want to lose yes I I have a wonderful husband I have great friends and we've got to meet some amazing people on this journey and we're just beginning she's just a normal person and we have she just has all these people that live inside her because she wants to pull back the curtain on this rare but certainly disturbing disorder she's hoping cells of her book will open the door to speaking events around the country so people can better understand and accept those living with multiple personalities

Channel: USA TODAY

Views: 3,346,100

Keywords: 3895540018001, Washington, usatyoutube, Health, vpc, king, water cooler, dissociatie identity dissorder, medical, National News, Multiple Personalities, everett, christine pattillo, offbeat

Id: UWhICGCXnUE

Length: 6min 20sec (380 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 17 2014

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[u/PalePinkLiquid]

I’m going to go ahead and exercise my right to be very skeptical of this.

[u/theworstcoord]

I just want to add that most people haven’t said DID is fake, & I’m guessing this post is from someone who is faking DID

[u/Unihimejoshi]

Forgive me for being skeptical.

These people have had sus people on here before.

[u/Victoriamerican]

I just don't buy it. Something about the creepy, enabling husband and then capped off with the buy my book and have a look at my custom crafted jewelry just screams performance to me.

[u/chrisaed]

Im a real biologist, who works daily with the mentally and physically unwell. In 13 years of my career, I've worked on research teams handling DiD and personality disorders.

I can't say DiD is even real, over multiple studies and hundreds of "DiD suffers" referred by their doctors, we didn't find one legitimate case.

We ended up basing one paper off misdiagnosis of Personality disorders, because of the amount of misdiagnosed cases we handled.

Basically, we found doctors who most often diagnose personality disorders are also the most likely doctor to attempt to write a paper on said disorder.

So, doctors researching DiD were 15x more likely to misdiagnose bipolar disorder as a DiD disorder.

It might be a real disorder, but after 13 years, I can say I've never seen a single, actual case.

For anyone curious on how we study DiD, we used SPECT imaging of the brain, a DiD sufferer should show a specific firing of regions of the brain during a "switch" 10 out of 10 times, DiD sufferers would claim a "switch" but show no outstanding activities in the frontal cortex, where we would expect sporadic firing of neurons during a personality shift.

[u/serenahjohnson]

Idk y’all all y’all say “you’re not diagnosed by a professional” in order to say people saying they have DID when aren’t diagnosed don’t have it which is true. But this lady IS diagnosed and her trauma story checks out so..... which is it y’all?