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Originally Posted by PurpleFlyingMonkeys
Thank you all for the input, I'll start looking into it tonight. I've gotten about 3/4ths of the way through "Fragments" in the beginning it reminded me of me, but the further along it got, the more bizarre and unlike me it got. Although there are still times that it dawns on me "hey this is similar to what I've been experiencing thinking it was completely normal" but it's just a bit much for my taste. I brought it up with t today. He looked at me pretty wide eyed when I told him it was a fiction, he says that's not a good idea to read a fiction and recommended that I read Sybil or Three Faces of Eve. So I brought up the fact that recent news says Sybil may have made up her disorder to gain the interest of her therapist.
So t says "I knew the real Sybil, I met her a few times and believe me, she's NOT making that up"... OK doc, digging a deep hole in my trust as I don't necessarily believe that. Not sure why he would make it up but...
Either way, made up or real, if her experiences are common for those with DID than perhaps it's worth looking it over.
Having trouble trusting t considering him being a male and feeling like he's not always honest. But he's the only one in the building equipped for patients with DID and PTSD so I'm kinda there. Nice enough guy, just seems he stretches the truth a bit to reassure me, but it does the complete opposite...
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lol Just a side thought here..I wonder what your T will say when he finds out the book Sybil is fictionalized.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Ardell_Mason
"Her life was fictionalized in 1973 in the book Sybil,..."
Sybil may very will have had DID...no one but Sybil and her Treatment providers know for sure..Sybil died in 1998 so theres no way to verify it one way or the other. what I do know is that the recent movie is quite different from the book/first movie and has a write up about her and which samples of artwork, writings....in the recent movie were found in her basement upon her death. there are many websites popping up since the recent movie came out all of which claim to be "Sybil's best friend" kinds of stuff. which again cant be verified one way or the other since Sybil is dead and cant tell anyone herself whats what.
all any of us can do on the subject of Sybil and DID is make our own assumptions and guesses.