The story takes place in the 70s in the United States, in October 1977, the Ohio State Police in the United States successively received three victims to call the police, they are all female students of the state university not only violated but also robbed According to the description of the three, the suspect is a man wearing sunglasses, through comparison can be determined that this is the same person, then the police launched an investigation and soon found clues on the victim's car, extracted a fingerprint through the database search, locked the suspect through the victim identification, This man was the one who had abused them, his name was Billy, and he had been released on parole in the first few months after he had committed robberies and rapes in '72-75.
The police paid special attention to Billy for possessing a gun during the crime, but when the police appeared in front of him
But he acted very frightened, saying that he had never done anything illegal and never hurt anyone, of course, his statement did not attract the attention of others, because the criminal would never admit his illegal behavior and even he felt ridiculous, so he was locked up for further interrogation During the detention, he showed an unusual fear of not knowing what he had done, and kept drawing all kinds of strange pictures and there was behavior that hurt himself in the middle, and the police called a psychologist
Willis C. Driscoll.
As is customary, let's first take a look at who this Billy Milligan is,
1955 Valentine's Day was born in Miami, her mother was Dorothy Pauline Sands, her father was Johnny Morrison,
His mother was a singer when he was young, his father was a well-known comedian, Billy's father was his mother's second husband, and he also had an older brother, Jim, and a younger sister, Kathy Joe, who had a lump in his throat when Billy was a month old
After stopping breathing, the doctor had declared him dead and miraculously resurrected.
His father died the following year in '58, when Billy was 3 years old, suffering from depression due to gambling and alcoholism
His mother had no choice but to remarry his ex-husband after leaving Miami with their three siblings Remember this point in time
At this time, Billy was 5 years old, (2 Christine and 3 Sean) The marriage lasted about a year, and in 1963 she married her third husband, Charmer Milligan, who was also married for the second time and had a daughter the same age as Billy, he was a truck driver who liked to drink heavily, and would beat Billy's mother and other children, especially when he abused Billy, often abused him in a barn, after which Billy's personality changed greatly.
Dr. Willis learned about his previous experiences and didn't have much to do with it when Billy had a brainwave scan
But in a surprising scene, his brainwave response covers the entire form from intellectual retardation to genius while we normal people only have one form, and even his walking posture sitting posture accent is obviously different In the dialogue, people will find a problem
As soon as he rolls his eyes or nystagmus, he will become another state, giving the researcher the feeling that one second is one person, and the next second will become another person.
As in the normal process, Billy, who asked him to deny guilt, did not admit that he was Billy, but called himself someone else, and revealed to Willis that he knew who did it and that the three cases were committed by 2 other people in his body,
After preliminary judgment, Billy may have Dissociative Identity Disorder, also known as DID
In the days that followed, he was evaluated by nine different mental health experts, the most famous of whom was Cornelia Wilbur, a very well-known psychiatrist, whose evaluation directly affected the outcome of the subsequent trial, which is called whether you are really mentally ill or pretended, and they knew as soon as they tested that they were absolute authority in this field.
After a period of dialogue, it was learned that the current Billy was manipulated by 10 personalities and broke the law by 2 of them
The one who was terrified when he was caught, another one who saw Willis, and one of them who could be freed during the arrest.
Many people do not know much about personality, I will make a simple introduction to personality also known as personality contains the sum of your interests, hobbies, abilities, temperament, personality and other elements can even derive your age Your body type Your race Your nationality Even gender can be understood as people's character and moral standards Some people feel that personality is the soul, but this is just a statement and not all for the mirror that can be understood that we ordinary people are a mirror, we are complete and the mirror of the patient who did is broken
Each fragment is a personality as a whole and a mirror, and when switched, one of the fragmented personalities will appear
10 popular personalities
The first thing a psychiatrist usually asks in an early test is "who am I talking to?"
There are 10 personalities manipulating Billy's body, and we look at Billy's core personality one by one, 23-year-old with brown hair and blue eyes
He dropped out of junior high school, at the age of 16, he had masochistic tendencies and was taken over by other personalities, he has been in a deep sleep and has not known the existence of other personalities, and the aforementioned desire to hurt himself in prison is his core personality.
The second is and Arthur Arthur male 22 years old is Billy's second personality and his personality traits are
British, with a British accent myopia The strict discipline is that he has set the basic rules that everyone must abide by for personality
To avoid being classified as persona non grata and expelled, he has a keen interest in biology and is knowledgeable in the field of hematology, which he usually uses to study when he takes over the body.
Here we mentioned that the family can be understood as Billy's flesh is the mobile house, living in this house
It's the different personalities that make up the family and Arthur is the head of the family, and he has the right to let whose personality manipulate Billy's body.
The third personality is Reagan Ragen male, 23 years old, Yugoslav with a bear's waist, black hair, beard, and color blindness
Considered a family protector, he shows up whenever Billy feels threatened in any way, he is the only one allowed to handle the gun and the one allowed to break Arthur's rules when the situation requires it, he can control his adrenaline to increase the strength of his body, Arthur and Regan are the makers of the family rules, and the robbery is partly the work of Regan.
4. Alan Male 18 years old, height 180cm Oil-mouthed slippery tongue eloquence will appear in scenes that require sociability, he has a strong interest in portraiture, and is the only one who smokes and is right-handed, he also knows that some of the portraits after the existence of other personalities are painted by him, and he has a very close relationship with Billy's mother.
5. Tommy Male Blonde hair Amber eyes 16 years old, expert in electronic and electrical materials who excel in escape surgery, he can also draw, but he can only paint landscapes and blow the saxophone, and he will use it to draw and learn music when he takes over the body.
6. Danny Danny Male 14 years old shoulder-length brown hair A thin and easily frightened one, he is afraid of strangers, especially men, he will come out to suffer when abused by his stepfather, and he will also draw things that do not move.
7. David David Male 8 years old dark reddish brown hair, blue eyes, short body Whenever Billy faces scenes of pain and injury, this 8-year-old boy uses to endure violence and painful personality, Billy only remembers that he will have amnesia before the punishment When he regains his memory, his body is full of scars, but I don't know where these scars came from This time of amnesia is when Danny or David is taking over the body and using it to bear the pain of being abused.
8. Christene 3 years old female blonde shoulder length and blue eyes is a little British girl who controls her body whenever Billy is overwhelmed and is the first personality created to know what is in the minds of other personalities, and when Billy is called to a corner by the teacher to stand on the penalty, Christine will appear so known as the "corner child" has dyslexia.
9. Christopher Christopher male 13 years old has a brown blonde bangs similar to Christine and shorter Christine's older brother speaks in an English accent and he is the only one who can play the harmonica.
10. Adalana Female Adalana 19 years old. Dark brown eyes often flutter from side to side lesbian, shy, lonely, introverted. She can write poetry and cook the usual housework that she longs for love, and she is the personality behind the rape case
Arthur warned men not to do such things because their bodies would be restricted, and Adalana took advantage of this because of this that Arthur was classified as undesirable after the incident.
The 14 annoying personalities were later dug up during treatment, and the other 14 personalities were defined as annoying personalities
The 24th personality is the teacher, a fusion of twenty-three self-personalities He teaches all the knowledge of other personalities to be intelligent, sensitive, and highly humorous, and he calls other personalities "puppets I made" The teacher has an almost complete memory of the past The book "24 Billy" was completed with the assistance of the teacher.
。 Then the question arises how these personalities arise, dissociative personalities are not inherited Most of them arise when threatened or fleeing difficulties, especially in childhood Most patients experienced abuse such as the death of a loved one when they were young and saw incomprehensible things
Major events such as fright, when you are physically and mentally unbearable, it is easy to split into other personalities, and these personalities will play a role in bearing pain, which is simply understood as if your mother or father often abused you when you were very young, then every time you are abused
Your personality will come out to bear these pains, and the core personality can learn normally and play normally, and the next time you encounter pain, you will still bring up that personality to bear the more personality that Billy is the extreme abuse of his stepfather when he was a child
He vividly remembers falling asleep whenever he was going to be abused, and when he woke up, it was over.
We mentioned earlier that Billy developed 3 personalities when he was 5 years old, 3-year-old Christine and 4-year-old Sean Christine had dyslexia at 3 years old, both during the period when his father was an alcoholic and suffered from depression
At that time, his mother and father often quarreled and put him in pain, and later his father's death also made him unbearable
8-year-old David was created to endure abuse from his stepfather, who usually hides his core personality when he beats him
Borne by the 8-year-old David personality, and the result is that when the core personality takes over the body here, it is found that the body has produced a lot of scars, but I don't know how the entire violent process has no memory at all, and between the ages of 13-14 there are also two personalities specifically responsible for resisting the violence of the stepfather, their personality traits are timid and afraid of men between the ages of 15-23 and 17 personalities, some of these people are suffering some are imitating the stepfather and some want to take revenge on the stepfather, these personalities
3 female personalities appeared, 3-year-old Christine is an early bearable personality 19-year-old Abby personality is born after she has left her stepfather's family, and this personality is the only one who wants to take revenge on Billy's stepfather.
A man's body has a feminine personality, and his behavior and temperament are also like women
Regan, who talked about the second personality earlier, his appearance can directly regulate the adrenaline of Billy's body, and he has the ability to fight people in the face of danger, while other personalities do not have this ability when they appear
What is the mechanism of operation of these personalities, how is it presented to people, according to other personalities feedback Billy's mind is like a dark room, they are all sitting in the center of this room with a white light and a main position like a stage
Arthur can decide who can be on the main throne, and the personality in the white light can control the body, but inside their minds there are their own characteristics, such as Christine is a 3-year-old yellow-haired little girl, Arthur is a British man with glasses Tommy is a 16-year-old blonde escape master, when these personalities manipulate the body, they will live their own way through books and television to talk to people, learn their own accent and knowledge Arthur will choose to learn biological knowledge
Regan would choose things related to exercise, and 18-year-old Allen chose to paint when the police searched Billy's room, and found that he had painted a lot of paintings, including portraits drawn by Allen and the subsequent 24 images of specific personalities also painted by him, and some landscape paintings by Amy, who could escape, which gave them the most headache during the arrest and in the mental hospital
It is Amy's personality, because he can escape surgery, so neither handcuffs nor tights can trap him, and what is even more surprising is that when he switches personalities, the characteristics of the personality will also change, such as when Billy is not myopic but switches to Arthur's personality
, he became myopic and when he switched to Regan, he became colorblind and switched to Allen, and he became right-handed and smoked
Their accents will become the accent of a specific personality, and most importantly, why does this switch between personalities not affect his life? In his description, they think that others should have the same state of amnesia or emotional changes as him
He didn't feel that he was abnormal, he felt that he was normal
Others are the same, let's take a look at Billy's ending, under the joint testing of several major psychologists, the authenticity of multiple personalities has been determined, of course, there are still many people here who question but this type of disease is not only Billy
There are many cases of this, as we know as psychosis and schizophrenia, just others of this disorder
There was no illegal behavior, so Billy's case was not paid attention to because it attracted too much media attention in that era, and people at the time did not recognize such a disease, thinking that he was a liar who was just good at disguise.
Billy was acquitted in this case, he was put in a mental hospital for treatment, and he was discharged in 1991, and his standard of treatment was to integrate his 24 personalities into the final personality, the teacher mentioned above, which is the only way to treat this type of disease Daniel Keyes (Daniel Keyes), wrote "24 Billy" and "Billy's War"
24 Billies also won the Hugo Award, and after Billy's War has not been released in the United States because of the bad social impact.
Many directors want to bring such a story to the screen, the famous Cameron is one of them but did not make it due to copyright issues, and in 2015 Warner Bros. held the copyright and changed the name to "Crowded Room" to be starring Leonardo
In 2021, the starring role was changed again to a level 10 TV series starring Tom Holland, the release time is undecided, but Netflix released a documentary in 21, which tells the entire treatment process of Billy, including the follow-up story Billy died of cancer at the age of 59 in a nursing home in Columbus, Ohio on December 12, 2014.
At the judicial level, public opinion at the time pointed to Billy being mentally ill and that he was an unfortunate man with a bad childhood
Even after breaking the law, many people claimed that they had mental illness to escape punishment, but who cares about the people he hurt, which is also a controversial part of this case
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