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Dana Okomaniuk Did Billy Milligan have 24 personalities?
Or was he artfully pretending?
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December 31, 02: 04
January 1, 13: 40
Masha Belozerovaslovoblud
Unfortunately, there is not a single fact that confirms the plausibility of the story of Billy Milligan.
Everything we know about him is taken from one source - the book of Keyes.
That's all.
To begin with, pay attention to the list of references that Wikipedia cites as arguments: wikipedia.org These are not scientific studies, these are not documents of court sessions or psychiatric examinations, they are not even eyewitness testimonies - there is not a single de facto/ de jure document confirming the validity.
This is one time.
I was confused by one moment in the book (I will not say that everything else was told smoothly by Keyes, but this particular episode stuck in my eye like a splinter and did not allow me to calmly and without reflection perceive the further development of the plot).
As we remember, all the personalities were full fledged, clearly drawn - this is confirmed by both Billy and Kiz.
But. "
Samuel is a religious Jew.
He was considered undesirable by Arthur for selling a picture of Allen and Tommy.
The only religious person."
Let's recall the plot from the book, when Samuel is expelled, and he makes the last attempts to convince the rest of the alter egos and says (not literally)as an argument: but after all, I am responsible for morality before God, if I am not there, then we risk going to hell.
The quote is not accurate, but the fact is that the Jew Samuel speaks about the existence of heaven and hell, which, as you yourself understand,cannot be.
That's two.
As a result, after digging through the Internet, I found an article that does not leave a stone unturned from Billy's story, I will give only three arguments, the rest are at the link: truecrime."
I received all the material of this book from this solid Milligan, from his other personalities and from sixty two people whose paths crossed with him at different stages of his life.
Scenes and dialogues are recreated from Milligan's memories.
The therapy sessions are taken directly from the video recording.
I didnot invent anything."
At first glance, these words inspire hope that the Milligan riddle still exists, because there are significant factors in its defense.
Keyes talks about recreating Milligan's story, giving three arguments to prove it.
Let's look at them in detail.
1 argument – the stories of Milligan himself.
If you believe Keyes that these very conversations really took place with them, are they objective proof?
I'm afraid the answer to this question is obvious to everyone.
This is subjective, not objective.
And, unfortunately, this argument cannot be taken seriously.
2 argument – 62 people "whose paths crossed with him at different stages of life."
Obviously, this refers to Milligan's relatives and friends.
You can try to find at least one statement of a person familiar with Milligan on the Internet or in the media, but you will fail.
There are no such statements or stories.
Americans who earn money and fame on the "dirty laundry" of any more or less famous person, in the case of Billy, are solidly silent.
No one has ever given interviews, told anything or written memoirs.
Meanwhile, this story is replicated and brings considerable dividends to Keyes himself.
Where are all these 62 people, why do they keep the secret of Milligan so securely?
Every day, the media tear the veil from state and military secrets to us.
Take, for example, the story of Monica Lewinsky and not just a simple criminal, but the entire president of the United States – Bill Clinton, who was obviously a very private person.
How many details surfaced, Monica's friend Linda Tripp even recorded phone conversations with her, which became public knowledge and ridicule.
There were many statements, testimonies, interviews and even books.
But nothing about Milligan.
Is this a global conspiracy?
I'm sorry, but I donot believe it.
Decades have passed, and the story of Milligan is told only from the words of the science fiction writer Keyes.
It seems to me that this is too little to prove the reality of the events.
Maybe I will doubt my own conclusion if the evidence appears after a while.
But they are not there yet.
In addition, the 62 people referred to by Keyes are not named by him as specialists.
That is, they are just acquaintances, ordinary people, and not philologists, linguists, musicians who can professionally assess a person's abilities in the field of language knowledge, writing and playing musical instruments.
So who determined that, for example, one of Milligan's personalities - Ragen Vadaskovinic speaks and writes perfectly in Serbian and Croatian?
Thus, the second argument of Keyes can also be seriously questioned.
3 argument – therapy sessions that are taken from the video.
That is, firstly, this is not a video recording of a forensic psychiatric examination, but a video recording of a therapy session.
And therapy can be quite different, especially for psychiatrists healers of human souls.
As one such well known aesculapius said: "we treat people we donot know well with poorly studied methods for diseases that are completely unknown to us."
I really wanted to find at least one video with Billy Milligan.
After seeing everything with my own eyes, even just starting from the information of the video series, I was ready to believe in the uniqueness of Milligan, in his incredible change of disguises.
But even here I failed.
There are no published videos of this unusual person.
In some short clips that roam the Internet, clips, by the way, for some reason of Japanese, and not American origin, there are second inserts of Milligan's video.
They depict a person of absolutely normal appearance, neat and cute, with the usual, healthy gestures of an adult.
They do not show anything abnormal, there are no visible signs of the manifestation of his different personalities.
That is, it was not possible to make sure of anything here either.
So where are the full records?
They are obviously there, since inserts of them are used in clips.
But these scenes last no more than a few seconds, they are the same in different videos.
If there are complete videotapes somewhere, why arenot those fragments used that would clearly prove the change of Milligan's personalities?
Why, as soon as it concerns any facts, and not speculation, it turns out that there is nothing?
Again, a universal conspiracy and complete concealment of information?
So, as you can see, there is no evidence.
If we try to start only from dry facts, there is nothing tangible that could convince us of the existence of Milligan of those personalities that Daniel Keyes described in his book.
And then the presence of 23 characters in Milligan's head is a matter of faith, not the truth."
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January 3, 09: 41
Dmitry Vitalyevich is a practicing psychologist
Here I answered a similar question: thequestion.ru Copy paste from there: When I studied at the Faculty of psychology, as part of the course of clinical psychology, and then psychiatry, the teachers always told about this case.
And, oddly enough, in order not to search for a long time , they offered to read us Wikipedia.
So, they paid attention to the list of references, now it is like this: Keyes D.
The Multiple Minds of Billy Milligan = The Minds of Billy Milligan.
- Moscow: Eksmo, Domino, 2004 — - ISBN 5-699-07012-5.
Keyes D. Milligan's Wars = The Milligan Wars.
— 1986.
At the moment, the book is published only in Japan, its publication in other languages is planned after the release of the film about Billy Milligan "The Crowded Room".
Chekushina, Ekaterina I happen a lot / / Maxim.
Two art books and one article in a men's magazine.
I have not found any scientific literature (really scientific, that is, publications based on research results) on this topic, at least at the time of studying at the Faculty of Psychology.
At the moment, there is a theory that Billy Milligan's disease is iatrogenic (that is, it appeared due to the influence of a doctor) or simply fictional.
If you look at the statistics of morbidity, then, after the popularization of the story of Billy Milligan, there was a sharp jump in appeals (as much as 40,000 in ten years! and this is from about 70 cases in the entire history).
Do not forget that the first case of fixing such a disorder occurred in judicial practice (Chris Sizemore tried to kill her own daughter).
In general, there is very little reason to trust the veracity of Billy's case.
Yes, mostly artistic authors wrote about the disease as a whole, and not doctors or psychologists who conducted the necessary research.
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December 31, 21: 28
Ilya Sadaw Automotive expert, novice IT specialist
I donot think Billy was faking it.
This is a world famous case in psychiatry; it has been investigated by hundreds of doctors around the world.
The conducted studies and analyses would certainly reveal the fact of forgery: no one will deceive a psychiatrist.
In addition, to falsify 24 identities, you need to have exceptional abilities.
This is far from being possible for everyone
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