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Reddit mentions of The Minds of Billy Milligan
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| Color | Black |
| Height | 6.9 Inches |
| Length | 4.1 Inches |
| Number of items | 1 |
| Release date | January 1995 |
| Weight | 0.54 Pounds |
| Width | 1.2 Inches |
Same author wrote a chilling non fiction book called The Minds Of Billy Milligan.
It's about a guy with multiple personality disorder and it's pretty fascinating and gut wrenching. Highly recommend it.
Daniel Keyes wrote a book called The Minds of Billy Milligan
http://www.amazon.com/Minds-Billy-Milligan-Daniel-Keyes/dp/0553263811
Read this after reading Flowers... Not a tearjerker but fantastic and based on a real person
Do you ever find clothes in your closet that you don't remember buying? Have you ever found yourself in a strange place with no recollection of how you got there? Have you ever gone to sleep on a Tuesday and woken up on a Friday?
Do you ever hear voices?
The minds of Billy Milligan is a biography of a man with dissociative identity disorder. Your local library probably has a copy. Just reading a few chapters would probably be enough for you to figure out whether dissociative identity disorder is the right label for you. The labels aren't really important, except that they give you a heuristic for which treatments might be helpful.
I'm glad you consider your alters important, because they are. All of them are you, and you are important, so all of them are important.
Here's a book on him (http://www.amazon.com/Minds-Billy-Milligan-Daniel-Keyes/dp/0553263811/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1303701743&sr=8-1).
Are the other identities "blacked out" when one is in focus?
For anyone who is looking for a narrative to read more about D.I.D., check out the book entitled "The Minds of Billy Milligan." This book is based off a real person, Billy Milligan, who developed 24 distinct personalities within himself after a traumatic childhood experience with his father. Some of them are men, some are lesbians, one is right-handed, one is Yugoslavian... it gets pretty detailed. Probably the worst case of DID recorded to date.
In the story, Billy's alternate personalities committed several felonies and he was arrested for them, but pleaded insanity on the count of him not being able to remember what he did because his alternate personalities were acting instead of him. This was the first real prominent case of Multiple Personality Disorder (now known as DID), and one of the first few cases where someone's been acquitted because of an insanity plea. Great book, easy read, check it out!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Milligan
https://www.amazon.com/Minds-Billy-Milligan-Daniel-Keyes/dp/0553263811
EDIT: More words.