Yes there have been indications all along the way and when I first heard MPD mentioned - (must have been from you) - I looked back at the clown video as clear evidence of this. Even though Anna was clearly drugged - that little girl voice was a real clear clue.
Then it was the other diaries that came out.
And then watching the Mommie dearest video - again another personality.
And many people who are abused cope with it by developing Multiple Personality Disorders. Plus it could have come from the heavy drug usage also....but it looks to be a longstanding condition.
Yes, who are we to say for sure.
I've only read about people with MPD - enough to know it is a real condition and usually stems from abuse - sometimes from ritual abuse.
Has anybody ever answered as to whether or not Anna actually was abused as a child?
“”””Has anybody ever answered as to whether or not Anna actually was abused as a child?”””
I believe Donna Hogan and Jackie Hatten each made veiled references to Anna having been sexually abused by a step-brother and/or stepfather.
Maybe in Donna Hogan’s book “Trainwreck”??
They don’t call it MPD anymore - there were too many fake-outs and abuses of that.
The study of the Dissociative Identity Disorders has gotten more sophisticated and deals with a wide variety of fugues or dissociative states. The true DID’s are rare, but just as messed up as those who were described in earlier studies as MPD.
My opinion, which you know what that’s worth, lol, is that there were extreme learning disabilities at the root of ANS’s problems. The dysfunctional family just exacerbated everything that was there to begin with. Just MHO.
Anna Nicole Smith, The Investigation
Posted by sodpoodle to TrishaSC
On General/Chat 03/24/2007 9:25:40 PM EDT · 10,135 of 20,471
Trisha you nailed it.
Wonder when Anna decided she had been sexually abused as a child. This is very chilling on how psychotherapists can implant the seed. Dr. K may have had more power over Anna’s life than we realized.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/index.php?term=pto-20001101-000031&page=2
The American Psychiatric Association recently posted a fact sheet on its Web site (www.psych.org) that warns mental health professionals against leading or pressuring patients into accusing people of sexual abuse. Doctors who ask leading questions in the midst of therapy are especially likely to influence the nature of events recalled. In these circumstances, perfectly normal people can be induced to remember things that never happened. Many distinguished mental health professionals believe this is exactly what has occurred in most, if not all, cases of recovered memories.
Anna Nicole Smith, The Investigation
Posted by sodpoodle to sodpoodle
On General/Chat 03/24/2007 9:14:41 PM EDT · 10,132 of 20,471
http://psychologytoday.com/conditions/did.html
Anna Nicole Smith, The Investigation
Posted by sodpoodle to Lizarde
On General/Chat 03/24/2007 9:05:45 PM EDT · 10,125 of 20,471
I was almost laughed off the thread for using the term: “Multiple personality disorder or Dissociative Identity Disorder”.
So I won’t bring it up again.
a severe condition in which two or more distinct identities, or personality states, are present in — and alternately take control of — an individual. The person also experiences memory loss that is too extensive to be explained by ordinary forgetfulness. The disturbance is not due to the direct psychological effects of a substance or of a general medical condition, yet as this once-rare disorder has become more common, the diagnosis has become controversial. Some believe that because DID patients are easily hypnotized, their symptoms are iatrogenic, that is, they have arisen in response to therapists’ suggestions.