When Rabbit Howls

Hi dizzy7, sorry I have never heard of the book. I guess I try to stay away from a lot of the books on DID. Makes me more confused and frustrated. Anyway, just wanted to say HI and good luck finding the info you are looking for. Have a blessed day. kat

Thanks Kat,
I really think this book is very much worth reading, however if you internalize this type of thing easily it might be too disturbing. I actually sort of had to distance myself from the story a couple of days and hid the book in another room. Finally, I decided I really needed to sit down and think about what I really felt. Alot of people have expressed opinions online, many of them saying she had to make her dissosiative figures up. But, I don't believe that. I believe we should give our imagination more credit. Many little children make up "invisible" playmates and many adults indulge in a seemingly different personality depending on the type of person they may need to influence at the time. That she created these "personalities" does not surprise, what really suprised me is the degree to which she was abused and that she DID survive it.
Thanks Dizzy

I personally am pretty certain I have MPD. It is really scary sometimes and sometimes it is not. The one personality I have that is the most AWFUL is named Zamora. She is scary. And we hate her but in a way look at her in awe for her fierceness and hatefulness. This past weekend was scary. I went to the convienence store...or was supposed to be going to pick something up real quick and I "woke up" driving two and a half hours later driving on a road I have never been on (that I know of). I then somehow ended up at the store more awake but terrified and then went home...SCARED TO DEATH.I have no idea what or where I was for that timeframe until I "woke up". Things happen all of the time that I don't remember....people tell me and I can't recall. I don't know why I am writing this, I don't think I have ever written anything about this on a messege board before.

This was the only book I've ever read about us and in fact it was just a couple of months ago a friend of mine found a couple old copies online and got one for me and one for her therapist so that she could understand it better. Though my therapist believes and has worked with others she hasn't gotten around to reading the whole thing yet.

Many things I could point out once she does that are like my system and the many things that don't apply. It was quite good in fact and I was glad that I had never read it before because others would be saying I was imprinted with that message from all this stuff. In fact I never saw the movie Sylbal until last year. Go figure that.

I never needed a book or movie to validate that I was different that way. By the end of the 90's it was becoming safer to talk to professionals about who I was. My phyc doctors had skirted that one for years and I kept things pretty much under some sort of control until the end of the 90's when the whole system just broke down or as I better call it "broke through" and with enough force to bring me fearlessly into the public realm.

I don't regret it and my life has been the open book all these years online. The second TalkZone web site with parts of my story is still up on the web and about 600 people passed through last year which is about the only reason I leave it up. Still always worried that the one person reaching out into the dark would not find a small light at the end of the tunnel.

Good to see people still sharing so much. Lady J

i have that book but have really struggled to read it. Its so disturbing to read what she went through. Its fascinating but very difficult to handle.

I read it when it first came out, before I was dxed as multiple, dont think I could read it again now. been dxed for 15 years I hate having DID. for books I really liked first person plural, it wasnt as much graphic abuse described and it was really uplifting to me that he got his PHD after being diagnosed