My name is Stephen Leeds, and I am perfectly sane. My hallucinations, however, are all quite mad.
Some people might say I'm two different people, but I think it's more like seven or eight.
I'm Jim Phillips, I have multiple personalities. I'm also a skindiver, a puppeteer, and I was the tenth president of the United States.
I survived my childhood by birthing many separate identities to stand in for one another in times of great stress and fear.
My different personalities leave me in peace now.
I am Jack's smirking revenge.
I do have a few personalities. When people started making a big deal out of it, I started making names for these people.
I must have been heavily schizophrenic all my life. The me who hears what the other me can't play is the dominant one.
I'm sure I'm a schizophrenic. The problem is I can't tell the difference between which one's which, which one is the real me.
The disturbed individual who believes himself to be Christ, or to receive messages from God, is something of a cliche in our society. Ever since Sigmund Freud, many people have associated religiosity with neurosis and mental illness.
Multiple personality disorder and possession are not necessarily mutually incompatible disorders. There's some evidence that you can have both.
If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation?
A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
There are 10 men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.
Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?
Sometimes I feel like I float in and out of different personalities.
It's not a secret that I'm, like, 12 different people rolled into one. Like a lot of people are.
Do you have a multiple personality disorder?
I think Madonna might have a multiple personality.
To anybody who says to me, 'I'm in character,' I say, 'You should be in an asylum.' If you don't know that you're pretending, then you should really seek medical help. I don't have patience for that stuff.
Acting is not that far from mental disease: An actor works on splitting his character into others. It is like a kind of schizophrenia.
I had been experiencing brief flashes of disassociation, or shallow states of non-ordinary reality.
Children who have been very sadistically abused over the long-term are able to dissociate, some of them are able to dissociate as a way of surviving and inventing someone to whom this doesn't happen. And so therefore, they invent within themselves different personalities who have life histories of their own. Many people invent an opposite gender personality as well.
It's like I have three different brains.
It was a haunting feeling, the sort of sensation you get when you wonder whether you are two people, the other of which does things you can't explain, bad and terrible things.
