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The Fragmenting Of America’s Political Mind
Bo Hooper didn’t realise she had a problem until she started blacking out.
Her friends started telling her about conversations she couldn’t remember. Classmates accused her of stealing from them or attacking them. But Bo didn’t believe them until, at 19, she was diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder, a condition where the sufferer’s personality splits into fragments or “alters” who act without each other’s knowledge.
There’s Tracey, a free-spirited young woman who often gets Bo into trouble, Toast, a teenage boy who enjoys video games and profanity, Layla, a six-year-old girl who loves Easter, Rosie, who only appears when Bo is feeling especially angry or destructive, each “alter” co-exists within Bo’s “system.”
Unfortunately, some are harder to live with than others.
Another “alter,” the one Bo first became aware of, tries to hurt herself whenever she takes control. Which can mean anything from burning herself to trying to throw herself off a bridge. Luckily, Bo has found ways to manage her various personalities:
[There are] two main ways of coping with DID. The one that everybody knows is integration or fusion. Which is working through a lot of trauma, working through a lot of…
