#274 Melanie R (DID aka Multiple Personality Disorder)

Mental Illness Happy Hour

Paul Gilmartin

Health & Fitness, Relationships, Society & Culture, Mental Health, Sexuality

4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2016

⏱️ 163 minutes

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Summary

22 year-old Melanie R. shares about living with DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder which used to be called Multiple Personality Disorder), being bullied, having a perpetrator who is female, integrating her "alters" and Sensory Integration Disorder. Melanie can be reached at [email protected] Her personal blog is at loserchildhotpants.tumblr.com. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Miss Fit toys.
0:02.7	Welcome to episode 274 with my guest Melanie R, who has dissociative identity disorder,
0:08.1	which used to be known as multiple personality disorder.
0:10.9	I'm Paul Gilmarten, this is the metal illness happy hour, a place for honesty about all
0:15.0	the battle in our heads, from medically diagnosed conditions, past traumas, and sexual dysfunction
0:21.0	to everyday compulsive negative thinking.
0:23.6	This shows now meant to be a substitute for professional metal counseling.
0:27.2	I'm not a therapist, it's not a doctor's office, it's more like a waiting room that doesn't
0:32.1	suck.
0:33.1	The website for this show is mentalpod.com.
0:36.3	Metalpod is also the Twitter handle you can follow me at.
0:39.4	And regarding our website, go there, you can browse the forum, you can read blogs and
0:42.8	guest blogs, you can fill out a survey, maybe we'll read it on the show, you can go there
0:46.8	and support the show financially, all kinds of things.
0:50.2	Before I get to the interview with Melanie, I want to say, I'm not going to talk about
0:56.4	Melanie, I want to read something that she sent me after we recorded.
1:01.7	She said, I didn't really get a chance to go into the different branches, dissociative
1:04.8	disorders go off into, but there are two clusters, DID, and while I technically fall into
1:09.9	both of them, I majorly fall into the first cluster, which is possession form.
1:15.8	Possession form, meaning the identities are overt, and it can appear as if the person
1:20.2	is possessed by another spirit or entity.
1:23.0	My altars are so vastly different from me, they present with different effects, interests,
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