Living with Dissociative Identity Disorder, EU Elections, Joanne Ramos

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.1 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

This year has seen ongoing turmoil at Westminster, the date on which Britain leaves the EU deferred and two new political parties founded and fielding candidates – Change UK and the Brexit Party. It is frequently claimed that we are seeing a realignment in British politics. But is that claim borne out among women voters? And, how do the varied concerns of women fit into a conversation that is so often dominated by men? We look at what light electoral research, opinion polling and focus groups might shed on the way different groups of women voters are currently thinking.

As part of a BBC season about mental health, tomorrow we hear from a 40 year old woman who lives with Dissociative Identity Disorder. We’re calling her Melanie and she was first diagnosed aged 22. She explains her diagnosis as being like a set of Russian dolls. She, Melanie, is the main doll and inside her are lots of other dolls, her alternative personalities. She feels her DID helped her as a child when she suffered repeated sexual abuse but living with it as an adult is challenging.

The Farm, the title of Joanne Ramos’s debut novel, refers to a Golden Oaks, a luxury retreat where women get the very best of everything provided they dedicate themselves to producing the perfect baby. For someone else. Joanne Ramos joins Jane to talk about the rights and wrongs of surrogacy, being an immigrant, nannies who rarely get to see their own children and the myths and reality of the American dream.

Presenter: Jane Garvey Interviewed guest: Deborah Mattinson Interviewed guest: Jane Green Interviewed guest: Joanne Ramos Reporter: Ena Milller Producer: Lucinda Montefiore

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0:00.0	Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know.
0:04.6	My name's Linda Davies and I Commission Podcasts for BBC Sounds.
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0:20.4	makes podcasts about all kinds of things like pop stars,
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0:36.0	Hi, this is Jane Garvey and this is the Women's Ad Podcast. It's the 14th of May 2019.
0:42.0	On the podcast today, I think this is absolutely amazing listening this a
0:46.3	woman with disassociative identity disorder which used to be known as multiple
0:51.9	personality disorder
0:53.4	tells us a bit about her life and how she lives it and you can hear that
0:58.7	on the podcast today. Also a new novel the farm it's about a place called Golden Oaks which is a sumptuous
1:07.2	farm in the middle of nowhere there's just a catch you've got to be pregnant
1:12.2	live there for nine months and carry somebody else's baby, probably
1:16.1	the baby of somebody mega-megar rich. But ask yourself would you go through pregnancy and
1:21.8	childbirth if you could pay someone else
1:24.4	to do it for you. The author is Joanne Ramos. The book is called The Farm and it's
1:29.4	really got people talking and you can hear Joanne on the podcast as well.
1:33.0	So to the ongoing turmoil at Westminster, we don't really have any idea when we are going to leave the European Union.
1:40.0	Two new political parties have been founded recently and both are fielding candidates in the European elections next Thursday.
1:47.5	It is being claimed that we are seeing a realignment in British politics.
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