| Dear Abby letter on MPD |
[19 Jan 2008|03:36pm] |
I thought I'd bring people's attention to a recent Dear Abby column, about a (presumably singlet) man engaged to "a woman who has multiple personality disorder." Link to the particular column here.
( Text of column for the link-phobic )
Abby's "splintered personality" comment bothers me (I suppose it's possible there was more in the man's letter that wasn't printed indicating that is actually the nature of the system, but even so it seems rather harsh language to use). At least she seems to be discouraging him from expecting the system can/will eventually integrate.
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| What. A. Disappointment. |
[02 Oct 2007|10:25pm] |
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I download Law & Order: SVU (season 8 premiere) a week ago, and have been dreading to watch the episode. Why? I knew that they would stereotype MPD/DID the way media usually does. This episode was ungodly awful, and serious pissed me off.
One of the actors (Detective Stabler) didn't even believe that she had a problem. They were willing to just have her consult a lawyer, rather than see a psychiatrist to confirm the diagnosis. They are really going to need to do some damage control, at least for me personally to like some of the actors again. I never was a huge fan of Novak or Stabler, though. Something still compels me to watch it, and I always catch the re-runs on TNT.
I guess you can't expect much from a crime show, huh?
I have the episode uploaded online if anyone wants the link, let me know in a comment.
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| Anime series |
[28 Apr 2007|09:38pm] |
(Er, hello, all... I'm new here. ^_^;)
I've been watching the first season of an anime called Saiunkoku Monogatari ("Tale of Saiunkoku"), which in most respects I think is an excellent series. But it dabbles a bit with multiplicity, and unfortunately it doesn't handle it very well.
( Alcohol-powered alters ahoy! )
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[06 Mar 2007|07:19pm] |
I finally finished reading the manga Othello. The main character is a multiple, but I don't want to give too much away... just that it's an awesome series, and I/we think Yaya's "split personality" was done very well, especially at the end. It started out like a traditional trauma-model sterotype - Yaya has no knowledge of Nana, gaps in memory, etc. But, it doesn't stay that way... Also, even though Nana tries to deny it for her own reasons, it's clear to the other characters that they're two completely different people who just happen to share a body.
So, I highly recommend it for anyone who likes manga and/or graphic novels. The ending did seem a little bit rushed, but enough was done well to make up for that.
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| "Dual personalitys." |
[28 Feb 2007|02:46am] |
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I was over at ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) ohnotheydidnt and it appears that Lindsay Lohan will be starring in a new film, I Know Who Killed Me.
Shorter version: A young woman appears to suffer from dual personalities after surviving a brutal kidnapping.
The script revolves around Aubrey Fleming (Lohan), a young woman who is rescued after being abducted and tortured by a serial killer. When Fleming returns home, she claims to be someone else, raising questions as to whether she is suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder or if something more sinister is going on.
Her character is an exotic dancer, btw.
Opinions? I sort of want to see it and am curious as to how it turns out. Already looks like a stereotype film, though.
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| multiples are demons. wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. |
[10 Feb 2007|03:59pm] |
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Posted in thequestionclub:
Do you believe in demons? Do you think "multiples" are actually possessed by demons and they embrace it?
Edited to add a link to explain what they are
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| what would be worse |
[09 Feb 2007|08:35pm] |
in my mangled trainwreck of thought and what not, I wonder.
wich would be more offensive, media with multiples as they are steriotyped, or media with multiples like I assume I run into on the internet.
Insted of the movie with the woman who has archyotypes running in her head, what about one with "the dragon" "Lisa Simpson from The Simpsons", "the immortal elven poet" "the psychic telopath crystal child" and of course classics like "the 2 year old who speeks and acts like a two year old" and "the super intellegent one" and "the artist with skills that the host/body/main/core/others don't have and never learnt but when they take frount they can compose music even thouh the rest never took a class before".
so yes, would it be more offensive with the 'traditional modle" or the mixed bag of toster powers, otherkins, fictionkins, historcial reincarnares, super brains and renisaance men?
of course the best would be 'the truth', but with what seems to be so many modles, how can we? and for entertainment its better to have a psycopathic murderuess 17 year old nynpho as a system member than 12 confussed silly faeries right?
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| Movie. |
[28 Jan 2007|02:29am] |
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Movie: Session 9
Genre: Horror
System: 4
Called: DID. Which is an error in the film I think because these recordings are supposed to be really old.
Stereotypes: Pretty much everything you can think of. This film depicts the worse stereotype IMO. It's set in Denver State Hospital and it's really pissing me off how they make it seem so horrific. I can't really speak personally for the multiple personalities thing, but as far as hospitals they really weren't that bad. At least not nearly insane like this "movie" creates in such a fake way too. I'm not condoning psychiatric hospitals, because they've done plenty of damage to me, but this is probably the reason so many with mental illness refuse treatment. I'll shut up now.
Lost time: Yes
Other comments: This movie is scaring the crap outta me, so I mute it on the really scary parts, ha ha.
When I finish the movie I'll probably add more (bad) commentary.
They showed a picture of Mary (MPD person) and they made her look like a crossover from junkie & psychotic. Being it's horror and mystery, there are a few twists to the ending that would alter my answers above. Unfortunately, I can't answer them without devouring a main part of the film, which isn't that hard to figure out anyway.
Overall, just another I'm-gonna-kill-you-multiples-from-trauma film.
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| Heroes |
[28 Dec 2006|11:05pm] |
TV Show: Heroes
System: 2
Called: They haven't really gone into detail, but I'm pretty sure they are gonna say 'split personality'.
I'd consider it negative because the other girl, Jessica, is pretty violent. She is also trauma-based.
Stereotypes: Pretty much the basic stereotype.. the angry one who was created through the father's physical abuse.
Lost time: Yes, Nikki ("host") didn't realize she had another personality until she ended up killing the people who were about to take advantage of her and whatnot. She'd look in the mirror and see someone else moving around like putting fingers up to her mouth and saying to be quiet.
Not faking.
No twists.
edit: Niki/Jessica are in jail now and they are planning to integrate Jess into Niki.
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| Plurality In The Media |
[09 Oct 2006|05:22pm] |
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Hello all. We have been a member for a while and have been avidly watching for plural portrayals on the media I watch and/or listen to. I have found one, although I am not sure yet of it's nature. We happened to catchNBC's new show "Help Me help Yu" about a therapist who is sort of a loser and his clients. Something about multiple personalities was mentioned but we haven't seen it yet... When we do we'll post back. If it's bad, we'll write to NBC ourselves.
Rhymershouse
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| Question |
[14 Aug 2006|10:58pm] |
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What do you feel constitutes the line between the sensitive depiction of an extreme case and straight-up stereotyping?
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| Haruki Murakami |
[31 Mar 2006|08:54pm] |
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Has anybody read much (0r any) of Haruki Murakamis work? He seems to deal with multiplicity alot, most overtly in Hard Boiled wonderland and The end of the world (although I have Just started Kafka on the shore which looks like it also may end up being quite overt about it.) He also seems to engage with the idea of inner worlds and loosing selves or parts of the self. I know next to nothing about Japanese culture so I dont know how much of the themes in the writing are idyosyncratic to him or how much is actualy emmbeded in the culture. I think his work would be classed as magic realism and I would recomend it to anyone, but I just wondered what anyone thought about it re: multiplicity?
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| While we're at it, |
[26 Mar 2006|01:03pm] |
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Would somebody like to review (george) by E.L. Konigsburg? Thank you. A. Temple
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[13 Mar 2006|04:30pm] |
So I'm browsing amazon looking for a book on multiplicity from a philisophical perspective and I typed in "multiple personality" an it comes up with a whole bunch of stuff where the blurb rambles on about "so and so's recovery from" or triumph over" or "brave struggle with" urk, urg. So anyway I was thinking if I put together a catch all paragraph to put up in the review section for each of these books saying that it doesnt have to be and frequently isnt like this.
what do we recon? (Also any book recomendations of the type I'm looking for would be good)
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| Bad publicity, redux. |
[03 Mar 2006|08:09pm] |
Reposted from our comment on multiplicity-- they're doing a remake of Sybil. >_<
"ARG!
A made-for-tv remake of "Sybil" is being planned:
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/entertainment/television/13664957.htm
I utterly hate that movie. Isn't it bad enough that three decades of psychology students have been trained on this crap, believing it's an accurate depiction of multiplicity? It wasn't even accurate to the book (even though the book was also trussed-up to make everything more dramatic) and yet people buy into the Sybil image so completely that they come away convinced they can always 'spot the real ones,' because we obviously must be publically falling to pieces all the time just like Sally Field did; and therefore, anyone who doesn't act just like her is a fake.
Why on earth would anyone think it was necessary to remake it? It sounds to me like it's probably going to end up being just a vehicle for some actress (probably to make Tammy Blanchard more famous). Then again, so was the original movie-- it was practically created just to win an Emmy for Sally Field.
-Lilac"
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| Testing,.. |
[02 Mar 2006|10:11pm] |
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Anybody here? *taps mic* There's been some talk lately of getting this community more active. I figured I might as well test the waters, to see who's out there.
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| "One Life to Live" redux |
[26 Oct 2005|04:56pm] |
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jadedmosaic^Shelby writes:
Where we work is a Emergency Room and off our assessment area is a TV waiting room. Well, everyone kept talking about finding out what happens to Jessie on "One Life To Live "
I guess for years there was an actress who played Viki with her "alters" Niki and then maybe others. Since Viki is supposed to have classical MPD/DID, the actress won many Emmys and soap opera awards for her "accurate portrayal of a multiple" and "bringing public awareness to the "disorder".
The whole plot has changed to now-integrated Viki Buchanan's daughter Jessie or Jessica -- who now has a alter named Tess. (It's on at 2pm eastern time on ABC.) Viki is trying to convince everyone, including Jessica's husband, that indeed her daughter is "insane now", and in a fight for her life -- making statements like "You have no idea what an alter will do in order to continue living!" She describes the core as living in a black pit of nothing and seeing the hand of the alter reaching in to help her and pull her out -- that they need each other to live, merge and integrate.
I finally peeked my head out to see a bunch of clients standing around staring at the TV in suspense as "Tess" is confronted with really being Jessica and not "a real person" -- Of course Tess pulls a gun on a complete Police Dept., and it ends there for now.
I went into my office, shut the door, and wanted to bash my head on my desk. This plot carried One Life To Live through the 80s, and it is back again in Viki's daughter. The "split personality" plot and the the character of Niki, "the evil Viki", began in the 70's, but back then they did not hang all the MPD/DID baggage onto it.
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