need your advise

[wolf]

I have met and worked with a lot of people who claim to be multiples. Multiple personality disorder is a therapeutic cash cow ... you can keep a patient coming back to you nigh onto forever to work on "integrating". Instead of doing so, the therapist will discover more and more and more personalities, at least until she stops being able to pay for sessions.

I'm not saying she doesn't seem to change, or isn't convinced that this is happening.

Reading this may explain things better than I am able right now.

You have been a good and loyal friend, and now, you, yourself, are at the breaking point. It really doesn't matter if she has multiple personalities or some other psychiatric condition. You are not a doctor, and you can't fix her. In your place, I would work on getting my own emotional strength back, and then if you want to resume contact with her, fine. If you don't, fine. You might gently tell her that you are under a doctor's care yourself and won't be able to see her for a while and then retreat from the situation. Good luck to you both.

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by wolf

Reading this may explain things better than I am able right now.

Suhweet!

The patient claims that Braun convinced her that she had 300 personalities, among them a child molester, a high priestess of a satanic cult, and a cannibal. The patient told the Chicago Tribune: "I began to add a few things up and realized there was no way I could come from a little town in Iowa, be eating 2,000 people a year, and nobody said anything about it." The patient won $10.6 million in a lawsuit against Braun, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Hospital, and another therapist.

The cellar made me think I needed to be Yahoo! slurp spider and Squirrel Nutkin. I want 10.6 million dollars too. Folks, hit that tip jar--give till it hurts.