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ORIGINAL: Termyn8or

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Folks, kelly obviously hooked on the part of the OP about the story where the nephew said "I don't want him to hear that".

Also, orchid seemed unaware that the MPD>DID issue had already been addressed.

Some people don't have the hang of this place yet. It's not nice to scare the newbies. Some people don't know they might have to red 912 posts to get up to speed, and by the time they post there will be ten more posts by the time they get done typing.

T^T

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ORIGINAL: Arpig

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Doing ok with my Wellbutrin, but thanks

I liked Wellbutrin, it worked better than the other anti-depressants. Did you know it's the same thing as the quit smoking drug Zyban?

I did know that.  I like it too as long as it's the XL version.  It works very well for my Seasonal Affective Disorder without side effects.  OTOH, I had previously unreported side effects on the SR formula.  The packaging changed because of me. 

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ORIGINAL: hausboy

Steven....
I'm going to share something here....something very personal..... hope I don't regret it.

I do not remember if it was before...or after the abuse....but I had an imaginary friend--He was my "hero friend", he was a rugged man with a moustache...and wore a workshirt and a yellow hard hat, and he was my "protector."  I remember asking him his name--and he told me his name was "Hole."   My parents tolerated me talking about my imaginary friend but I remember him being very real to me.

As I got older, he frequented my dreams....then disappeared as imaginary friends do when we age.

Fast forward to more than 20 years later, after I had my gender-transition.  I was coming home from a shift at the fire station, and because my hands were full, I plopped my helmet on my head as I headed up the stairs.  I walked past a mirror in the alcove, and stopped frozen in my tracks.  There, in the mirror....it was him.  It was Hole.  The workshirt...the yellow helmet..the moustache...the EXACT face I had seen so many years before.

And that's when it hit me.  As a child, I asked him his name,  he wasn't saying his name was "Hole"....what he actually said was "I'm WHOLE."  I don't know how to ever really explain this, but it was like I was my own protector, telling myself that I was finally "whole" as a person, as a man, and the splintered self that I felt as child would one day be whole again.

I know that all sounds weird, but it's entirely true.

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ORIGINAL: fragilepieces
There is a time to be serious and a time to be an idiot.    IMO---this thread is anything but funny.

You are obnoxious. Go away for the next couple of hours.

That got to her!

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ORIGINAL: LafayetteLady

~Fast Reply~

You talk about what you witnessed with this poor boy while your brother was alive and the child was 9 years old. He is now 11 and you say he's been institionalized for quite some time. While I don't doubt the validity of what you saw, hasn't he (and your sis-in-law) been given a diagnosis? You speculated based on your time with him, do you doubt his Dr.'s diagnosis?

While I do believe DID exists, I also believe that likely at least 98% of the alleged "DIDs" people here met were either misdiagnosed or deluded themselves into believing such as an excuse for their behavior. DID is really quite rare, but I can see schizophrenics believing that is the actual cause of their problems.

We had a tenant at a rental property my family owned. He was schizophrenic (not my opinion, we often rented to disabled and that is how he came to be a tenant). He went off his meds and chased another (disabled) tenant with a knife. Walking up to the foyer, I would have sworn there were 2 people having a conversation. Totally different voices.

OP, while I understand your curiosity, I'm confused as to your role in this. If this child is still that violent after more t5han a year at his currfent placement, I encourage you to speak with his guardian about moving him to a more appropiate placement. Places for young children that provide quality care on the level he needs are far and few between. My best friend's sister was diagnosed with both schizoprenia and asberger's before she was 5. She lived at home until she was 16 and then was placed in a live in facility because she became an uncontrolled danger to the other children in the house. Perhaps you taking a very active role for this boy will help him handle the abandonment caused by your brother's death. My condolences on you loss by the way. Your involvement would be a great way to honor your brother's memory.

Fragilepieces:

You commented about someone else lack of knowledge about children. Well, really, you are lacking yourself. Children learn at a very young age (around 2) that yes, mommy and daddy win because they are in charge and yep, bigger. So wherever you learned young children can't have that kind of comprehension, get your money back. CrackerJacks, I think has a money back guarantee, so your can stiil return the empty box and get a refund for your early childhood knowledge degree.

Return your psych degree as well. Only and idiot would define DID as altered state of mind." In the most simplistic (idiotic) level, yes. As others said though, deep meditationis an altered state of mind as well. Hell, every emotion that is stronglty felt could be considered an "altered state of mind."

You opened the door for humor. It is at your expense because you are apparently so simple minded, you think a state of euphoria (subspace) and a psychiatric disorder are comparable.

I don't blame you for not finding it funny. I don't find your ignorance funny either. Arpig, however, has been ver funny.

in this. If this child is still that violent after more t5han a year at his currfent placement, I encourage you to speak with his guardian about moving him to a more appropiate placement. Places for young children that provide quality care on the level he needs are far and few between. My best friend's sister was diagnosed with both schizoprenia and asberger's before she was 5. She lived at home until she was 16 and then was placed in a live in facility because she became an uncontrolled danger to the other children in the house. Perhaps you taking a very active role for this boy will help him handle the abandonment caused by your brother's death. My condolences on you loss by the way. Your involvement would be a great way to honor your brother's memory.

Fragilepieces:

You commented about someone else lack of knowledge about children. Well, really, you are lacking yourself. Children learn at a very young age (around 2) that yes, mommy and daddy win because they are in charge and yep, bigger. So wherever you learned young children can't have that kind of comprehension, get your money back. CrackerJacks, I think has a money back guarantee, so your can stiil return the empty box and get a refund for your early childhood knowledge degree.

Return your psych degree as well. Only and idiot would define DID as altered state of mind." In the most simplistic (idiotic) level, yes. As others said though, deep meditationis an altered state of mind as well. Hell, every emotion that is stronglty felt could be considered an "altered state of mind."

You opened the door for humor. It is at your expense because you are apparently so simple minded, you think a state of euphoria (subspace) and a psychiatric disorder are comparable.

I don't blame you for not finding it funny. I don't find your ignorance funny either. Arpig, however, has been ver funny.

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Termyn8or " It's pretty easy to concieve that cases of extreme abuse in early childhood could cause a form of MPD, whatever the nome de jure' may be. This could almost make it seem hereditary. But I wonder at this point what the other causes might be. Perhaps environmental factors (chemical perhaps) which affect the hormones in a young body/mind ?"

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SylvereApLeanan " There's been some discussion of this and one of the more popular hypotheses is that it's a combination of a predisposition for a child to be emotionally sensitive plus trauma. However, whether or not trauma is necessarily involved is in question, as well as what constitutes "trauma." War, natural disasters or a parent's protracted battle with cancer could all qualify as trauma to a person already predisposed to more frequent/extreme episodes of dissociation. "

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ORIGINAL: LafayetteLady

Because when posting from a phone sometimes errors happen.

Obviously, your children did not get their intelligence from you.

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Lafayette lady it IS an alter state of mind.   Plain simple.

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becuase I had to adopt the way I talked/dealt with them...

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Because when posting from a phone sometimes errors happen.

Obviously, your children did not get their intelligence from you.

classic catty remark.   LOL

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ORIGINAL: kalikshama

Wellbutrin worked very well for me, but just the SR, not the XL. I'm back north - thanks for the SAD tip.

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Lafayette lady it IS an alter state of mind.   Plain simple.   Childhood experience I learned from having three of them and now a grandchild and I must admit I did something right