Split : a life shared : living with multiple personality disorder

Walters, Maggie2024

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As a young adult, years of physical abuse had ended, Maggie Walters (continually struggles with an unpredictable temper and socially difficult behaviour) has to leave yet another job due to her unpredictable temper and socially difficult behavior. Eventually she is diagnosed with Multiple Personality Disorder, MPD (now known as Dissociative Identity Disorder or DID). Gradually, she understands. It was not Maggie who survived her childhood. The instinct to survive created an alternative identity called Annie, who with a myriad of other 'alters', lived through the abuse inflicted on her. Decades later, with a husband and three much-loved children, Maggie strives to live a normal life despite a past which has left her internal world with a hidden, dark secret. In Split Maggie tells the story of managing, understanding and accepting her past, and standing proud in the life she has built from the ashes of her broken childhood. It is a story not only of survival, but of self-acceptance, of the triumph to simply live.