Another Brutal Murder

[tekla]

Though the apology was long, the end result was... 'its not my fault, even though I did it.'  Great spokesperson for the community.

[V M]

I sincerely hope this person will seek and find the help they need

[Mister]

Sorry, but why is she (is the poster female? just the alter?) attempting to make her MH issue the scapegoat?  To avoid all actual responsibility?  Or because this person hasn't realized that the DID isn't separate from herself, but part of her? 

this is so freaking weird.

[heatherrose]

...this is so freaking weird.

Or maybe, just another fine example of creative writing
from an elaborate hoaxster.

[V M]

I get the drift of a multiple personality disorder. 'It wasn't me, it was someone else who is also me. Then all the other me's ganged up and killed one of my me's." 

[heatherrose]

...all the other me's ganged up and killed one of my me's." 

I hope no "Mini-Me's" were harmed in the making of this post!

[Suzy]

This is just bizarre.  She needs some help and quickly.

Kristi

[V M]

I could be wrong. But after witnessing and dealing with various folks with various phsychological disorders, I think I might have this one sussed. Def. he or she needs to get help immediately before they actually do harm themselves or others. imo 

[NicholeW.]

I could be wrong. But after witnessing and dealing with various folks with various phsychological disorders, I think I might have this one sussed. Def. he or she needs to get help immediately before they actually do harm themselves or others. imo 

Why?

In all of the research I have ever done and in all of the clients I have yet seen myself I have never experienced either through the literature or live such a form of MPD or C-PTSD as was related in that.

Not sayin' she's not a single-specimen, but I'm rather sceptical.

First dead and now a previously unreported type of multiple manifestation? Too much, just too much.

P.S. Actually I have heard of this, one time. It's an element of the plot in the current hit novel The Lace Reader.

[V M]

Well, OK. Maybe she's just a faker. But she did talk about one of a few personalities being brutally murdered. So who do you think carries out these brutal murders of another personality? Also, there is a big difference between MPD and C-PTSD as I'm sure your well aware of.

[NicholeW.]

And as I am sure you're well-aware of, DID and or MPD with multiples is an extremely rare occurrence. Rather convenient that this person has a previously unreported variety of that, no? Dissociation is not very rare at all. The making of a entire personality is rather rare.

Usually they are the result of some very severe trauma.

I find it just too convenient that this particular "variety" manages to appear in a currently popular novel.

[Suzy]

Throwing an easy pop diagnosis on this one would be a disservice.  There is no way we have enough info to make such a decision.  I think it is as much a hoax as the story itself.  Something is very wrong here.

Kristi

[NicholeW.]

O, I imagine there's a very easy "pop diagnosis" for this, Kris. A lie on another lie.

[V M]

Are we ganging up on Virginia now  I'm not interested in an argument and probably shouldn't give any opinions or try to help anyone. After all I was born yesterday and everyone else knows everything about everything. No problem 

[NicholeW.]

Are we ganging up on Virginia now  I'm not interested in an argument and probably shouldn't give any opinions or try to help anyone. After all I was born yesterday and everyone else knows everything about everything. No problem 

I don't think so. I don't think that the opinions expressed by either Kris or myself had much at all to do with you, Virginia, except that I used your comment as a springboard for my own and then answered something you asked of me.

If you think that the person requires help and support then so be it. Personally I think she prolly just needs to have a real adventure so she can discover that "adventure" can be a pretty harrowing thang that kinda makes one long for nondescript peace and quiet.

[V M]

Well, OK. Maybe I'm just being frustrated and grumpy because I hear I cry for help in her words and would like to help. Heck, it's been awhile since I studied psych.

Some adventures can be rather harrowing and leave you longing for peace and quiet. Then again, once bitten by the adventure bug....

[Suzy]

O, I imagine there's a very easy "pop diagnosis" for this, Kris. A lie on another lie.

Well, that, in essence was what I was trying to say, though a little less bluntly.  I do agree that anyone who would make up such a story is in need of some real help, but I do not think we should give reinforcement to a very negative behavior by pouring out sympathy.  In the long run, this would not be a kind thing to teach her.

Kristi

[NicholeW.]

Well, that, in essence was what I was trying to say, though a little less bluntly.  I do agree that anyone who would make up such a story is in need of some real help, but I do not think we should give reinforcement to a very negative behavior by pouring out sympathy.  In the long run, this would not be a kind thing to teach her.

I agree all-the-way-round.

1) Get a life, a real live life that doesn't include a "life on a chat," "a life on a forum," or "a life on YouTube."

That seems the one major problem with "the community," no life except in "the community" which seems to include only those things I listed above.

N~

[tekla]

There are a lot of people, and I suspect Roo is one, where there is not such thing as 'bad' attention, there is only attention, or no attention.  As long as everyone is paying attention to her, what's it matter to her?  I'm sure, not much.

Of course, none of this was helped by people jumping to conclusions and believing everything they read on the web, even when it seems fantastic - so kudos to those who actually bothered to check, and zero points to those who thought the police could keep a story like this out of the news. 

And Nichole is right, life is what happens when you walk outside and deal with real people in your real community.  Particularly with the caveat that as Frank Zappa once said, "The people in your community are those who are there, not those you want there."   

It's sad really, and sure its a pathetic cry for attention and help, but not all of us are in that kind of giving mood.  I'm hoping she can find the help she needs, but really, I hope she finds it on the next block over if you know what I mean.