Inside Karen’s Crowded Mind - a woman with 17 personalities

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Inside Karen’s Crowded Mind - a woman with 17 personalities

Even for a psychiatric patient, Karen Overhill seemed unusually devoid of hope on the day in 1989 she walked into the Chicago office of Dr. Richard Baer. As weeks of therapy grew into months, antidepressants didn't help her, at least not consistently. She was suicidal—and the flat, emotionless way she stated her wish to die made Baer fear that she might actually follow through. Eventually, Karen began to volunteer stories of childhood abuse. And she mentioned odd memory lapses. She would find herself in strange places with no awareness of how she'd gotten there. She couldn't even remember having had sex with her husband, although she must have, since they had two children.

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Inside Multiple-Personality Disorder | Newsweek Health | Newsweek.com

 

[Peter Parka]

There is so much mental problems yet to be fully understood but so many people to be quick to judge! It really is fucked up!

 

[COOL_BREEZE2]

Interesting. It seems to me tho that most stuff like this and other mental disorders somehow stem from abusive relationships especially from childhood.

 

[Mrs Behavin]

I couldnt imagine living like that. How does one get like that though, something Ive always wondered.

 

[dt3]

I couldnt imagine living like that. How does one get like that though, something Ive always wondered.

One doesn't. 17 do.