Split Personalities Quotes

“Weird? Absurd? That’s how it seemed to me. I had these forces, these compunctions, these alternative personalities inside me, driving me. It was like being a jack-in-the-box and I was unsure which personality was going to jump out next:
Billy, who thought of himself as a cowboy or a terrorist; Kato the cutter; anorexic Shirley, whose only self-indulgence was binge drinking and the occasional salad sandwich. I didn’t dislike Shirley. I was afraid of her. Shirley knew things I didn’t.”
― Alice Jamieson, Today I'm Alice: Nine Personalities, One Tortured Mind

“It’s hard to imagine a more squarely on-the-nose example of demonizing mental illness than portraying a mentally ill man as a literal demon.”
― Charles Bramesco

“I hold a beast, a celestial being and a maniac inside of me. It’s up to you which one you meet”
― Karl Wiggins, Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe

“In the world of emptiness, hope is a treasure to behold.”
― Frankyz Uche Anujuo

“Can the splitting of representations explain multiplicity? Not at all, for two reasons.20 First, a split is into two, not many. The splitting of self and object representations manifest polarity: self-object, good-bad, male-female, friend-foe, and so on, whereas alters generally don't (though they may).
Second, hosts and alters are intentional subjects or agents, entities capable of uttering "I." Indeed, one may profitably regard alter as short for alter ego, literally "other I." A given "I" has intentional objects that are its respective self and object representations. In other words, a split representation, even of the self, is an object of thought, not a thinker, not a subject or agent or "I.”
― Donald B. Beree, Dissociation and the Dissociative Disorders: DSM-V and Beyond

“Some people are so moody, you’re never sure which one of them will show up.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, BECOME: Unleash the Power of Moral Character and Be Proud of the Life You Choose