MPD's

[Pandora]

I know we joke around about MPD's (Multiple Personality Disorder before somebody ask for a definition), but what in the world would you do if your spouse woke up one morning and said, I'm not Gary, I'm Mary - and dressing in your clothes, wearing your make-up? I just watched a story on this on the Biography Channel. Rather interesting actually! This MPD change was most likely stress induced - the man lost a child and several years later - his wife was told she had terminal cancer, which later turned out to be a complete misdiagnoses.

6 1/2 years later this man woke up and knew he was a man and the last thing he remembered was being there with his daughter, Christy, after she died. During the 6 1/2 years, he was Mary and a baby. In total, this man lost over 11 years of his life. He doesn't remember anything that happened after his daughter died, until his wife's diagnoses and the 6 1/2 years as he was being Mary and a baby!

Here is a link on it!

Multiple Personality Disorder: Crime and Defense - Crime Library on truTV.com

 

[rack'm]

I'd probably laugh myself sick

 

[Pandora]

I'd probably laugh myself sick

I think I would also. I would totally think Gary was pulling my leg. I am trying to put myself in that situation and just cannot imagine it! Then, the entire shift in his personality when he had to be bottle fed and changed. My gosh!!!

 

[rack'm]

I think I would also. I would totally think Gary was pulling my leg. I am trying to put myself in that situation and just cannot imagine it! Then, the entire shift in his personality when he had to be bottle fed and changed. My gosh!!!

Diaper change

I'd call the rubber wagon

 

[vraiblonde]

what in the world would you do if your spouse woke up one morning and said, I'm not Gary, I'm Mary - and dressing in your clothes, wearing your make-up?

I would run and get the camera, then start a thread.

 

[Pandora]

I would run and get the camera, then start a thread.

I think there is a reason why some things don't happen to some people. I don't know how this wife maintained herself in all this. She said she waited a few days before seeking any help but when Gary was still Mary, she took him in to see the doctor. 'Mary/Gary' kept asking why he/she had male parts and didn't know anyone in the house.

Sally Field was the 1st actress to bring attention to MPD in Sybil, which I have never seen it! Now I might make an effort to watch it!

 

[Bann]

I would run and get the camera, then start a thread.

Dang, now I gotta clean my monitor!

 

[Bann]

I think there is a reason why some things don't happen to some people. I don't know how this wife maintained herself in all this. She said she waited a few days before seeking any help but when Gary was still Mary, she took him in to see the doctor. 'Mary/Gary' kept asking why he/she had male parts and didn't know anyone in the house.

Sally Field was the 1st actress to bring attention to MPD in Sybil, which I have never seen it! Now I might make an effort to watch it!

I remember seeing it a long time ago. Fascinating story. But then I'm fascinated with human nature and anything of that sort anyway. It's terrible trauma which causes the inner support/coping mechanisms in the minds of some people to breakdown and fracture like that.

 

[sweetprincess23]

mental health

I had a family member who suffered from schizophrenia which is not the same as MPD but the effects are similar on family, friends and the person themselves. It is the saddest thing to watch. Some of the things these people do seem hilarious on the outside and even I still laugh at the things my family member did. In the end though, these people want to be normal again. My family member grew up as the all american boy handsome, popular, played sports and had a great personality and humor. In the blink of the eye it changed with little warning. the person I once laughed with and played in the woods with was nowhere to be found. He stopped coming around the family and caused issues with his closest friends which caused him too lose most of his friends. I cried at the thought of him suffering and he would tell people he just wanted to be normal again and have a girlfriend. He wanted to eat his mothers food without thinking she was poisoning him.

This family member has since passed and as sad as I am about losing someone I loved, I have found peace with the fact that he is free of his demons. One of the biggest reasons i still believe in God is the idea of my family member being safe with God now.

I hope this Gary/Mary can find peace one day and get the help he needs before it is too late.

 

[Pandora]

I had a family member who suffered from schizophrenia which is not the same as MPD but the effects are similar on family, friends and the person themselves. It is the saddest thing to watch. Some of the things these people do seem hilarious on the outside and even I still laugh at the things my family member did. In the end though, these people want to be normal again. My family member grew up as the all american boy handsome, popular, played sports and had a great personality and humor. In the blink of the eye it changed with little warning. the person I once laughed with and played in the woods with was nowhere to be found. He stopped coming around the family and caused issues with his closest friends which caused him too lose most of his friends. I cried at the thought of him suffering and he would tell people he just wanted to be normal again and have a girlfriend. He wanted to eat his mothers food without thinking she was poisoning him.

This family member has since passed and as sad as I am about losing someone I loved, I have found peace with the fact that he is free of his demons. One of the biggest reasons i still believe in God is the idea of my family member being safe with God now.

I hope this Gary/Mary can find peace one day and get the help he needs before it is too late.

That is what I find amazing, how the mental health of this Gary/Mary changed in a blink of an eye. Just woke up and his wife finds out that the person she married isn't that at all.

I have a non blood relative with schizophrenia, related by marriage and can relate to the funny, then the not so funny emotion.

 

[Kain99]

The human mind is so incredibly fragile.

 

[SoMDGirl42]

I would run and get the camera, then start a thread.

I thought she said Gary turned into Mary, but I may have been mistaken. Maybe it did say Larry turned into Mary.

 

[SingerLady]

Has anyone seen that new show on Showtime, "The United States of Tara"? It's a show about a woman who has various MPD's, It is very funny, though also shows what the family goes through.

 

[luckystar]

Has anyone seen that new show on Showtime, "The United States of Tara"? It's a show about a woman who has various MPD's, It is very funny, though also shows what the family goes through.

No, but I really want to. I don't have Showtime. I'll have to keep up with what people here say about it in case it's worth buying the season.

 

[mAlice]

I don't have Showtime.

Yes you do.

 

[luckystar]

Yes you do.

We do? Then I missed it

 

[SingerLady]

No, but I really want to. I don't have Showtime. I'll have to keep up with what people here say about it in case it's worth buying the season.

It is a very good show, and funny as hell! I think it's worth buying a season.