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Originally Posted by Ferox13
I always thought that story was highly disputed though I've not read much on the real case.
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It was disputed and still is, there were arguments that the ideas were implanted as part of false memory syndrome, but split personality and 'flashbacks' are a very real part of the ways that those who deal with unimaginable horrors deal with it. The correct term for 'split personality' is multiple personality dissorder. I know people who have 'dissociated' for days at a time and found themselves 100's of miles from home and not known how they got there. We have regularly had to have police helicopters and dog handlers out to find these people. The things they are capable of as a result of the horrors they have experienced are truel horrible, grusome and very sad. The worst I have come across was a woman who actually carved the calf muscle from her legs while dissociating.
It is sad and beggars belief that often the people responsible for this amount of pain are not very often prosecuted.
The time that nursing these people stops making my heart ach is the time I will stop.