The Mangled Mind Podcast with Steven Shelton: Living with Dissociative Identity Disorder

The Mangled Mind Podcast with Steven Shelton: Living with Dissociative Identity Disorder

On the podcast, I delve into the world of multiple personalities. The condition is called Dissociative Identify Disorder (DID), and an estimated 1.5% of the people in the world have it. I’ll peer into the daily lives of those with DID to see how they cope with their other personalities (called alters). On occasion, I’ll speak with their loved ones—especially in cases where the person with DID refuses to seek help. Please join me for what I promise will be an interesting journey.

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May 15, 2024 29 mins

In this episode, I interview Magnolia, who are nonbinary and have around 30 personalities. During a therapy session, they blacked out for two years.  When they came out of the blackout, Magnolia discovered another personality had transitioned them to male and had gotten married.

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In this episode, I discuss my own recent mental health issues related to working on my memoir.

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On this week's episode, I interview Heather, a woman with thirty personalities. She grew up in a foster home after being sexually abused as a toddler.

Heather has a Facebook page called My Life as a Multiple where she helps people with DID and women who've lost children or had miscarriages. She lost a nine-month-old daughter and later had a miscarriage.

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In this episode of The Mangled Mind Podcast, I interview Krystal, who's a wife, mother, and nurse. Doctors diagnosed her with dissociative identity disorder when she was age nineteen.

Krystal has ten total personalities. She had a terrible time adjusting to her illness—multiple suicide attempts and hospitalizations. Like me, she has an amnesia barrier, so she can't remember what her alters do when she blacks out.

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This episode discusses the subjects of self-harm and sexual abuse of a child, although there is no graphic description of either.

Amy developed dissociative identity disorder after being sexually abused by her father and brother—and sold by her father at age 11 to a pedophile sex cult. She developed 52 other personalities to help her deal with the trauma.

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November 26, 2023 10 mins

In this episode, Steve introduces the podcast and provides basic information about dissociative identity disorder (DID).

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