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hi all, I’m responding to my dani’s post as we did watch the movie.  I thought it was rather good also, but we were pretty triggered by it.  I would agree it might have been exaggerated for dramatic effect.  We’re mostly co-conscious also and don’t have the extreme lifestyles the girl in the movie had, although we’re currently in a battle over what career we’re going to have, if any. I was impressed by the therapist, also, and kept thinking, too bad he’s just an actor…  ;)  but the one line that I liked best in the movie was at the end when he was talking to the suicidal alter, I’ll paraphrase cuz I don’t have that good of a memory…  he said, ‘you want to die because you feel bad inside.  You just think you must be bad because you hurt so much’  Then he reached out to her.  That was when dani started crying, cuz that’s how she feels. One thing that bothered me, personally, about the movie was how supportive her family was.  Mine don’t understand like that.  They think I should ‘be normal’ ‘get over it’ ‘grow up’ etc, etc.  *sigh* It kind of hurt to see her in so much need and getting so much support from her family when I was sitting there alone knowing that no one in my family even has a clue what I’m going through. Anyway, long enough, have to go.   oh, and thanks for the support here…  it helps. katie. writes: – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – In article David Green says… Shattered Mind, Heather Locklear…  a movie about MP…  don’t know if it’s good or not, but am going to watch it… Yes, I’m curious to know whow others felt about it.  We got triggered a couple of times, but we thought it was basic t.v. movie treatment of the subject, some things therp. did right out of Putnam’s book, funny. We don’t have fugues (loosing time), we’re co-conscious mostly, or share a memory bank, so some stuff we don’t know if it was acurately portrayed.   What’d ya’ll think? Lynns I’m glad someone brought this up.  I watched it also, and cried in several places.  What book by Putnam are you referring to?  I appreciated the calmness, support and availability of the therapist on TV very much.  Interesting how good ole mama wanted to ignore her daugher’s problems when she absconded her home when she was recovering from the damage to her lungs, stating that the daughter’s husband, children couldn’t see her, and she had decided to find another doctor.  I’m glad her husband was such an advocate. I primarily am co-conscious, though my therapist has told me that he has met alters (rarely).  All in all, I wondered if the movie was exaggerated a bit to make a point.  I liked the ending when the daughter and husband asked, now what do we do, and the therapist answered, and now we begin.   I would really appreciate knowing what book by Putnam you are referring to, OK?  Thanks. Trillium — For more information about this service, send e-mail to:

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In article David Green says… Shattered Mind, Heather Locklear…  a movie about MP…  don’t know if it’s good or not, but am going to watch it…

Yes, I’m curious to know whow others felt about it.  We got triggered a couple of times, but we thought it was basic t.v. movie treatment of the subject, some things therp. did right out of Putnam’s book, funny.  We don’t have fugues (loosing time), we’re co-conscious mostly, or share a memory bank, so some stuff we don’t know if it was acurately portrayed.   What’d ya’ll think? Lynns

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Shattered Mind, Heather Locklear…  a movie about MP…  don’t know if it’s good or not, but am going to watch it…

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In article David Green says… Shattered Mind, Heather Locklear…  a movie about MP…  don’t know if it’s good or not, but am going to watch it… Yes, I’m curious to know whow others felt about it.  We got triggered a couple of times, but we thought it was basic t.v. movie treatment of the subject, some things therp. did right out of Putnam’s book, funny.  We don’t have fugues (loosing time), we’re co-conscious mostly, or share a memory bank, so some stuff we don’t know if it was acurately portrayed.   What’d ya’ll think? Lynns

I’m glad someone brought this up.  I watched it also, and cried in several places.  What book by Putnam are you referring to?  I appreciated the calmness, support and availability of the therapist on TV very much.  Interesting how good ole mama wanted to ignore her daugher’s problems when she absconded her home when she was recovering from the damage to her lungs, stating that the daughter’s husband, children couldn’t see her, and she had decided to find another doctor.  I’m glad her husband was such an advocate. I primarily am co-conscious, though my therapist has told me that he has met alters (rarely).  All in all, I wondered if the movie was exaggerated a bit to make a point.  I liked the ending when the daughter and husband asked, now what do we do, and the therapist answered, and now we begin.   I would really appreciate knowing what book by Putnam you are referring to, OK?  Thanks. Trillium — For more information about this service, send e-mail to:

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Rainwolf says: But I agree with with a lot of what Danielle (?) said.  Where is our support?  At first I thought it was just cause we are male that people don’t reach in toward us to help us.  I talked to my therp about this and the movie,and she assured me it is not an issue that male multiples have an exclusive problem with.

No Rainwolf, it sure isn’t only a male issue.    Maybe a little more, but who knows?   Having lost two spouses through divorce — and I honestly don’t blame them for leaving, I suppose — and failed relationships with multiples, I struggle with abandonment in the here and now, let alone the past crap.  I hope support people watched this and saw how important their support and love, love, love, love and respect is.  God, i wish we had that kind of support without having to pay a stinking fortune for it.

I found myself crying when the husband cared so much for his wife. The main reaction my ex-SO had (wrote me another hate email) was "gee, if Heather Locklear could play MP so well, maybe you all are faking it". Geez, I really needed that.  We have no RL support.  No one knows our diagnosis.  Our therapist was not good.  Sure, we want to be 43 and still in school, having been hospitalized too many times to count.  That is always good for a little vacation (as SO used to say).  sigh.  It is a sore subject. Katie says: One thing that bothered me, personally, about the movie was how supportive her family was.  Mine don’t understand like that.  They think I should ‘be normal’ ‘get over it’ ‘grow up’ etc, etc.  *sigh* It kind of hurt to see her in so much need and getting so much support from her family when I was sitting there alone knowing that no one in my family even has a clue what I’m going through.

I cannot remember EVER a time when we were given love and support unconditionally, just because we are who we are.  Feeling kind of low after these thoughts, but glad to be here too. Allison Rose — For more information about this service, send e-mail to:

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I watched Shattered Minds and I liked it. I am glad there is a bit of discussion about it. I have had a bunch of thoughts about it. I liked how the ending shows that she is just beginning in therapy. That famous wrap up in ‘Sybil’ has always bugged me.  This kind of healing takes time and I was glad that it was portrayed that way. I liked that it showed how hard it is to find a shrink who knows what really is going on. I liked that they made the bad guys in this story , the dad, mom and uncle out to look like normal people.  Not monsters.  THey didnt over blow the characters and made it clear that families involved with denial and abuse are not noticably weirdos on the outside. I loved how the children were told about Moms Problem.  That her inconsistencies were not alright.  That helped me alot.  My mother was a multiple as well and is not in recovery and I would have liked to hear that when I was little.  The Dad never sad Mom is bad. I liked that too. I liked that the chaos of living with this defense system, particularly before all the alters know about it, was made clear and she was a sympathetic character. I liked how well they made her switching subtle enough for her husband to not even notice at times.  How she covered up her memory loss. WE as an adience got to see it but many times no one noticed her struggles… SO TRUE. I didnt like the knife and gun parts.  WHy can’t a Multiple be portrayed in the media without seeming to be dangerous??? They could have not put that crap in, and it still would have been a good movie. I think that for us, we related to that movie alot and we liked it alot.  But I am not sure how much of it would be clear to a singleton. My two cents..:) MoonCalf writing for Nancy

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I watched Shattered Minds and I liked it. I am glad there is a bit of discussion about it. I have had a bunch of thoughts about it.

— SNIP — I think that for us, we related to that movie alot and we liked it alot.  But I am not sure how much of it would be clear to a singleton.

We talked to some of the monotonics at work about the movie and, well, they didn’t get it.  In fact, they not only didn’t get it, but they were adamant in pointing out that it was "pointless."  Collectively, they said they wished television would air things that are more positive and uplifting.  I left the conversation with the remark, "Gee, I found the movie to be quite positive and uplifting."  Total silence as we left the room.  I love getting those digs in <G. Peace, Rainwolf

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Shattered Mind, Heather Locklear…  a movie about MP…  don’t know if it’s good or not, but am going to watch it…

I had to work but alot of my nonMPD friends said the movie was really good.    A friend of mine who used to be here (I & the VIllage) said the movie Never Talk to Strangers was really good and its about mpd. jeannette of sasha et all

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: I watched Shattered Minds and I liked it. I am glad there is a bit of : discussion about it. I have had a bunch of thoughts about it. : I liked how the ending shows that she is just beginning in therapy. : That famous wrap up in ‘Sybil’ has always bugged me.  This kind of : healing takes time and I was glad that it was portrayed that way. me too. mary higgins clark wrote a book called _all around the town_ about a multiple and she ends it with her getting "cured" in like 3 weeks and waltzing off into the sunset with her boyfriend. bad. : I liked that it showed how hard it is to find a shrink who knows what : really is going on. : I liked that they made the bad guys in this story , the dad, mom and : uncle out to look like normal people.  Not monsters.  THey didnt over : blow the characters and made it clear that families involved with : denial and abuse are not noticably weirdos on the outside. : I loved how the children were told about Moms Problem.  That her : inconsistencies were not alright.  That helped me alot.  My mother was : a multiple as well and is not in recovery and I would have liked to : hear that when I was little.  The Dad never sad Mom is bad. I liked : that too. : I liked that the chaos of living with this defense system, : particularly before all the alters know about it, was made clear and : she was a sympathetic character. : I liked how well they made her switching subtle enough for her husband : to not even notice at times.  How she covered up her memory loss. WE : as an adience got to see it but many times no one noticed her : struggles… SO TRUE. i liked the switching part too because that is how it is for us. blink and you’ll miss it. i could tell every time she switched (heather locklear did a *really* good job, ioo). but i wondered how clear it would be to singletons. : I didnt like the knife and gun parts.  WHy can’t a Multiple be : portrayed in the media without seeming to be dangerous??? They could : have not put that crap in, and it still would have been a good movie. well, yeah, but this is network television we’re talking about…. actually we could relate to the knife parts. i don’t think we’ve ever even touched a gun, but we’ve had some serious and lasting relationships with knives. and as some others have said, i think they exaggerated and went over the top for dramatic effect. for us, much of what goes on among and within us is so subtle it just wouldn’t make for good television. (i keep abbreviating television as tv and then i have to go back and change it so i don’t confuse my own tv self :) .) : I think that for us, we related to that movie alot and we liked it : alot.  But I am not sure how much of it would be clear to a singleton. us too. : My two cents..:) : MoonCalf : writing for Nancy tv —                         ~*  _                      ~*    After the final no there comes a yes   | |_   ___   ___  ___   ~*    And on that yes the future world depends. |  _| / -_) (_-< (_-<   ~*    No was the night. Yes is this present sun.  __| ___| /__/ /__/   ~*                              -Wallace Stevens                         ~*

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We saw the movie too and thought they did a good job.  Just like others, the time loss didn’t really relate to us much because we’re mostly co-conscious.  I think it’s that way for more multiples than people let happen.  Still, it triggered us some, but I don’t think in a bad way.  Our therp. was concerned cause we had a really nasty nightmare and called her the next morning and she hadn’t seen the movie but knew it was on and was worried that other therps would get the same kind of panic calls we did.  But it wasn’t all the movie that made us scared, other stuff’s going on to and we told her that. It’s funny what different people got out of the movie.  I hear a lot about liking the therp.  or about getting the support from her family here on the nets.  In group, all the people could talk about was the mother’s denial and they skipped lots of the other stuff.  For me, it was the initial confusion of what was going on and of realizing just what was happening that she showed, but I was mostly interested in the responses to therapists, the initial ones who didn’t understand her, and then how  effective the "specialist" was in pinpointing the problem and the different techniques.  It hit me because I changed therapists to more of a "specialist" when these issues came to the foreground. I’m sure that a lot of this was overdramatization and sped up from the normal process, but at least I got the sense that it portrayed the multiple as someone who’s loving and caring, but was really hurt.  I hope some people got that type of an understanding.  But I still have a feeling that lots of people didn’t "understand" the condition.  There’s just been too much hype in the past, with the negative portrayal.  Still, I’d say that Hollywood and people are trying to understand the condition.  So that has to be a good sign for things in the future. I would really appreciate knowing what book by Putnam you are referring to, OK?  Thanks. Trillium

Hi Trillium, We are reading his book called Diagnosis & Treatment of Multiple Personality Disorder I’d highly recommend that book for people who want a greater understanding of DID/MPD.  It talks a lot about switching and alters and what to look for and then how to go about treating the condition.  It takes away some of the inherent "confusion" that exists. Cyn

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: I found myself crying when the husband cared so much for his wife. : The main reaction my ex-SO had (wrote me another hate email) was "gee, if : Heather Locklear could play MP so well, maybe you all are faking it". : Geez, I really needed that. Heather Locklear went to a television studio in the morning, did her *job* of acting, and then went home again at night as Heather Locklear. She did that for, what, a couple of months maybe it takes to make a tv movie? I’d like to see her try it all day every day for years and years and years. TV p.s. we dont liek your dumb stupid ex-so heis mean —                         ~*  _                      ~*    After the final no there comes a yes   | |_   ___   ___  ___   ~*    And on that yes the future world depends. |  _| / -_) (_-< (_-<   ~*    No was the night. Yes is this present sun.  __| ___| /__/ /__/   ~*                              -Wallace Stevens                         ~*

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I haven’t watched ‘One Life to Live’ since Junior High school which was over 10 years ago, but I remember Vicki being MP then.  She had an evil alter, can’t remember her name, but she tends to go in phases (as most soaps do) during some phases she is MP and during others she is not (or appears not to be). Like I said, it’s been years since I’ve seen it tho. katie. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Ok so this is not about Shattered Mind, but someone talked about "all around the town" by mary clark higgins and that brought me to this. *grin* Do any of you watch "one life to life" on ABC??? Vicki on that show is MPD, and I was wondering if you watch it what do you think? Me?  Well I do wish she had not killed her father (NOT THAT THE SOB DIDN"T DESERVE IT {MITOSIS}), and so on, and I wonder if they are going to have her "cured" faster than "real life"  BUT then again I’ve seen kids born on soaps who were  born when mine were and are not 20 years older than mine. *grin* Kaitlyn

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i was really impressed with the movie.  i’m not mp, so i don’t know how accurate it was, but it didn’t seem as sensationalized as i’d expected.  i think heather locklear did a really good job, and that surprised me too, since i’d gotten used to thinking of her as "one of those melrose place people" ;)   stuff i liked: –the bit when they tried to tell the kids, and the kids already knew, and mentioned bonnie, the one that plays with them.  once i have kids, i’m not sure what boundaries i’ll have as far as switching with them, but for now, it made me smile. –the way they did her black outs, where she was still in the same conversation, but all of a sudden they pulled the camera back from her and it was a different scene.  (i love nice camera work.) –one early scene when she was driving and not too in control and they did weird camera stuff with the scenery. –how they’d have people talking to her and switch from observer perspective to her perspective and all of a sudden that person was her father. <shrug  there’s more, but can’t think of it now.  overall i was pleasantly surprised by it. :)         –nymsa

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I haven’t watched ‘One Life to Live’ since Junior High school which was over 10 years ago, but I remember Vicki being MP then.  She had an evil alter, can’t remember her name [ . . . ]

Her name was Nicki.  I haven’t thought of that show in years :) swiv

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hi,  i watch the show one life to live not on a regular bases anymore. they said vicki (the name of the chareter) was cured once before. at that time there was only one know alter by the name of Nicki. i guess they decided to uncure her. :) ratings must have been bad or something. :)  anyway who knows if they’ll uncure her again or not. *shrug* she just won the emmy for her performance so they might uncure her if the ratings dip again. :) Gus (member of the Royal Family) – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Lynns,     I don’t watch it that much lately, but I agree that it is sad that they are going to mess with her mind.  And I don’t like that they already have her "recovered" their words. One year of therapy,   B U T   maybe if we wre all rich we could have our therapists live with us like she did for awhile and we would be better in just a year!  Wish everyone with MP could be rich and get the kind of therapy they need.     I read that they had an expert on MP helping them with their plots, but wonder if they decided to dump him now ya know? Kaitlyn et al

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I wouldn’t let the gang watch the movie, I knew it would be triggering…just keeping us all safe… Nicci and the gang

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In article SwivelLeft says… I haven’t watched ‘One Life to Live’ since Junior High school which was over 10 years ago, but I remember Vicki being MP then.  She had an evil alter, can’t remember her name [ . . . ] Her name was Nicki.  I haven’t thought of that show in years :) swiv

We watch that soap and they did kinda do a yucky thing this year.  They had Vicki get to a crisis point with her MP, where she finally found out about the abuse and went into therapy and met all the alters and all that.  She had a cool therp. too.  But it’s only like a year later and supposedly now she’s mostly integrated, which really sucks and is mostly impossible.  Then to make it even worse, they had her therapist leave her and this new one is sent in from some of her family’s enemies to screw with her head.  You know, it just sucks, it’s enough that she went through the MP, now they have to go and srew around with it.  They’re probably going to have the coniving therp. cause her to split again and  become unstable again.  It would be one thing if they explored the subject of abusive therapists, but this is way over the top!!! Lynns, embarassed that I know so much about a stupid soap.

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alot.  But I am not sure how much of it would be clear to a singleton. We talked to some of the monotonics at work about the movie and, well,

Wow, I get to be a singleton AND a monotonic, all in the same day! <g they didn’t get it.  

From my perspective, it was interesting, but I can definitely understand how someone with no experience there could not understand it. In fact, they not only didn’t get it, but they were adamant in pointing out that it was "pointless."  

Gee, I feel the same way about sports, Roseanne, and commercials. uplifting.  I left the conversation with the remark, "Gee, I found the movie to be quite positive and uplifting."  Total silence as we left the room.  I love getting those digs in <G.

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alot.  But I am not sure how much of it would be clear to a singleton. We talked to some of the monotonics at work about the movie and, well, Wow, I get to be a singleton AND a monotonic, all in the same day! <g

*snicker* Personally, I’d rather be a singleton than a monotonic. That sounds like either a drink or someone on really heavy meds. But, I’m much happier being multiple any day :) they didn’t get it.   From my perspective, it was interesting, but I can definitely understand how someone with no experience there could not understand it. In fact, they not only didn’t get it, but they were adamant in pointing out that it was "pointless."   Gee, I feel the same way about sports, Roseanne, and commercials.

And soap operas! :) uplifting.  I left the conversation with the remark, "Gee, I found the movie to be quite positive and uplifting."  Total silence as we left the room.  I love getting those digs in <G. good shot. P.S.  Why do my SO’s voices never tell her to clean the house?  :)

They probably do and she wisely just ignores them!! :) After all, _I_ don’t like others telling me what to do, regardless of it they are inside or out. Why should I listen to someone telling me to dust, regardless of where they are. If they think it’s dusty, let them do it! *Jill turns to address the inside* You hear that in there? If you want it undusty, then you do it! Rainbow Colors (Jill) —      I choose to post non-anon because my abusers are afraid.      They would have to admit something happened in order to      confront me; this they will never do. They are the only      people who will be upset if they know who I am, and they      are too afraid to admit to what they did.                        Black of Rainbow Colors

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I was watching Kathy Lee and Regis the other morning and Heather Locklear was on and talking about the movie. Regis was asking her about the investigation work she did to prepare for the role. Heather said that the woman who the movie is based on has 60-80 ( I can’t remember the number she gave) personalities but they had to reduce it to just 8 for the movie so it wouldn’t be too confusing. The Regis said something that peally pissed me off.  He says " In my heart of hearts I really feel that these people are just acting. They are simply looking for attention." I am not a big fan of that stupid show anyway. But Regis has alot to learn. Anyway, Heather didn’t reply to that. She just looked at him kind of funny.  I wonder what her take on it is. I sure wish that people could see how awful and confusing this problem is.  Who would possibly choose to be this way, simply for attention? It seems impossible to me that someone could actually act this way for years and years on purpose?!  What a blinkin jerk that simple minded idiot is. MoonCalf

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writes: P.S.  Why do my SO’s voices never tell her to clean the house?  :)

Because they’re telling her that YOU will clean the house…  ;-) OMalley

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Hi all, we watched the movie as well.  Generally, I have to agree with just about everyone.  I really think they did just about as good as you can do under the circumstances of network TV, and actually just good in general.  I was glad to see Heather Locklear do such a fine job.  She actually does have talent, and that is so refreshing. She took a chance, and did well with an incredibly difficult topic.  She’s been among some of us somewhere, I’m convinced.  I felt the same way when Shelly Long did "Rabbit Howls".  She did a terrific job of it. But I agree with with a lot of what Danielle (?) said.  Where is our support?  At first I thought it was just cause we are male that people don’t reach in toward us to help us.  I talked to my therp about this and the movie,and she assured me it is not an issue that male multiples have an exclusive problem with.  Maybe a little more, but who knows?   Having lost two spouses through divorce — and I honestly don’t blame them for leaving, I suppose — and failed relationships with multiples, I struggle with abandonment in the here and now, let alone the past crap.  I hope support people watched this and saw how important their support and love, love, love, love and respect is.  God, i wish we had that kind of support without having to pay a stinking fortune for it. One thing I thought they did pretty well was the discordant time sequences, especially at the beginning — not sure how it could be done better.  It was a good idea. BTW, I watched Delores Claiborn the next night.  Kathy Bates is an incredible actress, and I thought Jennifer Jason Leigh was good too.   Hats off to Stephen King for identifying the real horrors in the real world.  Never read the book though, so maybe I’m a fool on this one. BTW, I also watched a long time ago the "Prequel to Twin Peaks."  Talk about major, major triggers.  But, and I mean this, I think every partner, friend, therapist, whatever should watch this movie to see the madness of cult abuse.  But, very triggering.  I should have watched it with someone else, but . . . well, back to the no visible means of support issue. Rainwolf – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – hi all, I’m responding to my dani’s post as we did watch the movie.  I thought it was rather good also, but we were pretty triggered by it.  I would agree it might have been exaggerated for dramatic effect.  We’re mostly co-conscious also and don’t have the extreme lifestyles the girl in the movie had, although we’re currently in a battle over what career we’re going to have, if any. I was impressed by the therapist, also, and kept thinking, too bad he’s just an actor…  ;)  but the one line that I liked best in the movie was at the end when he was talking to the suicidal alter, I’ll paraphrase cuz I don’t have that good of a memory…  he said, ‘you want to die because you feel bad inside.  You just think you must be bad because you hurt so much’  Then he reached out to her.  That was when dani started crying, cuz that’s how she feels. One thing that bothered me, personally, about the movie was how supportive her family was.  Mine don’t understand like that.  They think I should ‘be normal’ ‘get over it’ ‘grow up’ etc, etc.  *sigh* It kind of hurt to see her in so much need and getting so much support from her family when I was sitting there alone knowing that no one in my family even has a clue what I’m going through. Anyway, long enough, have to go. oh, and thanks for the support here…  it helps. katie. writes: In article David Green says… Shattered Mind, Heather Locklear…  a movie about MP…  don’t know if it’s good or not, but am going to watch it… Yes, I’m curious to know whow others felt about it.  We got triggered a couple of times, but we thought it was basic t.v. movie treatment of the subject, some things therp. did right out of Putnam’s book, funny. We don’t have fugues (loosing time), we’re co-conscious mostly, or share a memory bank, so some stuff we don’t know if it was acurately portrayed. What’d ya’ll think? Lynns I’m glad someone brought this up.  I watched it also, and cried in several places.  What book by Putnam are you referring to?  I appreciated the calmness, support and availability of the therapist on TV very much.  Interesting how good ole mama wanted to ignore her daugher’s problems when she absconded her home when she was recovering from the damage to her lungs, stating that the daughter’s husband, children couldn’t see her, and she had decided to find another doctor.  I’m glad her husband was such an advocate. I primarily am co-conscious, though my therapist has told me that he has met alters (rarely).  All in all, I wondered if the movie was exaggerated a bit to make a point.  I liked the ending when the daughter and husband asked, now what do we do, and the therapist answered, and now we begin. I would really appreciate knowing what book by Putnam you are referring to, OK?  Thanks. Trillium — For more information about this service, send e-mail to:

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In article Trillium says… I would really appreciate knowing what book by Putnam you are referring to, OK?  Thanks. Trillium

Hi Trillium, We are reading his book called Diagnosis & Treatment of Multiple Personality Disorder Some things therp. said in the movie rang an instant bell. Lynns

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(snipped out Lynns stuff) Lynns, agree with you, it was well done.  We were also triggered a few times. I’m glad someone brought this up.  I watched it also, and cried in several places.  What book by Putnam are you referring to?  I appreciated the calmness, support and availability of the therapist on TV very much.  Interesting how good ole mama wanted to ignore her daugher’s problems when she absconded her home when she was recovering from the damage to her lungs, stating that the daughter’s husband, children couldn’t see her, and she had decided to find another doctor.  I’m glad her husband was such an advocate.

more than anything this triggered me.  the whole scenerio is like something i would have going through if it had been me. I wonder how many husbands are that supportative.  I appreciated how they showed he had problems with it all too, made it much more realistic and honest.  My SO has had some real problems, especially in the beginning.  He is much more a supporter now. I also liked when she went to the woman’s house who was sueing her father and found out and freaked out. That was well done. I primarily am co-conscious, though my therapist has told me that he has met alters (rarely).  All in all, I wondered if the movie was exaggerated a bit to make a point.  I liked the ending when the daughter and husband asked, now what do we do, and the therapist answered, and now we begin.  

I know some ppl who do not have a lot of co-conciousness.  I mostly do and those that aren’t usually don’t come out.  I liked the ending with the husband being there and i loved the therapists pacience.  How many therps wouldn’t have lasted after her pulling a gun on him?!?  I know some would, but most would have been out of there. I would really appreciate knowing what book by Putnam you are referring to, OK?  Thanks. Trillium

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