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If you are curious about Multiple Personality Disorder, this is the book for you. A rare and brutally honest look at the circumstances that create MPD, now known as Dissociative Identity Disorder/ DID.What it is like to live with other "people", alternate personalities within? Growing up in a large Irish Catholic family, Amy is subjected to an onslaught of physical and sexual abuses. As a young child with no means to physically escape, she develops "people"/alter personalities to survive.At 26 years old, Amy did the unthinkable. She left her entire family and disappeared into the night. She became an orphan, anonymous and discovered she wasn't alone. There were people within. Dozens of alter personalities that harbored the pain of hideous abuses inflicted upon her by family members. Being Autistic, she was walled off from the outside world, unable to understand or connect to others.Being Multiple, she was walled off from parts of herself.It has taken her decades to make sense of and formulate words to the heavy burden of confusion that she has carried around. Her people, 85 in all, have revealed some of their secrets. She was a victim of incest at the hands of her father, grandmother and great grandmother. Her father had prostituted her to others, selling her to gain prestige and money. While her story is heartbreaking, it is also inspiring and uplifting. The wisdom and insight she has gained is poured onto the pages. You can survive child abuse, even extreme childhood abuses.Being Autistic, she was always alone.Being Multiple, she is never alone.Always and Never Alone is a story once read, never to be forgotten.
