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  • MPD is, well, we prefer multiple personality disorder, we understand that some people prefer the term dissociated identities, but mine aren't dissociated, it's not like we woke up and said, oh I have to do something unpleasant, this is my job, I don't want to own that so I'll push it away, that's not part of me, that's not how we worked.

  • I was born and then I was removed by Symphony, and after that, and I shall ask her to come out and tell you this, because after this it all gets a bit blurry for me, sure, hello, hi, I'm Four going on 50.

  • Yes, I've got to be four because I'm hoping that when I get to testify that I can grow because I've got to stay this age because I've got to tell about Daddy.

  • You are in charge of those facts.

  • Yes.

  • You know what happened.

  • Everything that he did after I took Jennifer away, he did to me.

  • So every single bit of abuse I have experienced, that's my job.

  • My job is to deal with Daddy.

  • That job was a big job.

  • It was enormous.

  • The So as people were created, Eric made them an internal landscape where they live and he gave them their list of rules because everybody's got rules.

  • There are some very strong personalities in there.

  • Some people who are with you.

  • All the time, yes.

  • All the time.

  • Tell me about Let's go through some of those.

  • Okay.

  • Let's start with Muscles.

  • I love Muscles.

  • Actually, I will ask him to come and talk to you if that's okay.

  • Yes, of course.

  • Oh, okay.

  • Good pants.

  • Thank God.

  • Thank God for pants.

  • Hello.

  • Hi, Muscles.

  • Hi.

  • Muscles, you take on a whole demeanour, don't you?

  • You've arrived.

  • If you're going to be here, you've got to be all the way here.

  • There's no point being a half-ass.

  • Just be here.

  • Yeah.

  • Your role is protection.

  • Yeah, my role is complete protection.

  • I'm not the kind that sits back and goes, oh, you know, all will be fine.

  • I'm much more of a get up and do it kind of a guy.

  • I wanted revenge.

  • Who are the others in your repertoire of friends, your personalities, who are important to how you function?

  • Oh, Volcano.

  • Volcano.

  • Leather God extraordinaire.

  • You want to see him walking around in his leathers.

  • What does Volcano do?

  • Volcano does not do what you think he's doing.

  • So everybody thinks, oh, everybody goes Volcano, that sounds dangerous.

  • No, he is a total sweetheart.

  • His job is to tell you, you are allowed to feel what you're feeling.

  • What you feel is absolutely appropriate.

  • He has a sense of what normal is.

  • Who else is strong, important?

  • Judas.

  • Judas has been trying to tell, actually, he is sitting in the background agitating.

  • You're telling, you're telling, that's my job.

  • That's my job.

  • He's seven going on eight and Judas does exactly what his name says.

  • He is blab.

  • He will go and tell you anything.

  • Now that you know this war is over, are you not able to become one, Jenny?

  • No, because they came out of the back of my head.

  • I don't know how to put them back in.

  • You see, everybody thinks that Jenny has alters.

  • Right.

  • Got to understand Jenny's an alter.

  • Yes.

  • She's just as much as an alter as Eric or Muscles or Linda is.

  • So you can't become Jennifer?

  • Oh, gosh, no.

  • That's done.

  • Yeah, that's, that's done.

  • Yeah, can't do that.

  • But you will always be Jenny.

  • I will always be Symphony.

  • You will always be Symphony.

  • Yes.

MPD is, well, we prefer multiple personality disorder, we understand that some people prefer the term dissociated identities, but mine aren't dissociated, it's not like we woke up and said, oh I have to do something unpleasant, this is my job, I don't want to own that so I'll push it away, that's not part of me, that's not how we worked.

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