Brain Storm tells the story of how the author survived childhood sexual and ritual abuse and lived a life with Multiple Personality Disorder. The abuse was horrifying and the recovery hellish but throughout, her alters brought her to safety. In no small measure because of it all, she became an activist feminist, successful doctor, devoted parent and loving partner. In the end, Brain Storm is a book about the resiliency of the human psyche and the triumph of the human spirit. It is also a book that lays to rest any doubts about the existence of Multiple Personality or DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder) and ritual abuse. Satanic cults are real and victims need to be heard. DID is real and persons with dissociative symptoms must be recognized by the therapeutic community of doctors, psychologists and therapists. Finally this is a book for everyone who has survived abuse of any kind and who struggles to prove its credibility.
The sad 7-year-old girl. The aggressive 14-year-old boy.The terrified 3-year-old child. The cult leader.She lived with these, and over thirty other parts of her mind, no less real than you and I, throughout endless cycles of deepest depression, paralyzing panic, thoughts of suicide, and a revolving door of psychotherapists.A harbinger of the coming storm, darkness followed her everywhere, from infancy to a career as a renowned, openly gay OB/GYN in New York City. A loving wife and three remarkable kids completed the fa ade she allowed the world to see while inside her mind was a raging tempest. A fierce will to survive sustained her until, at long last, a gifted therapist gave a name to her unrelenting psychic pain: Dissociative Identity disorder (DID). And so the work began.In Brain Storm, Dr. Shelley Kolton tells the story of a childhood marked by unimaginable abuse and the distinct parts her brain created to hold those memories and protect her. She balanced the demands of medicine, marriage and family as new parts - each one requiring her attention and care - emerged while grueling therapy sessions consumed her days and nights. After twelve torturous years, she finally accepted that the alters colliding inside her brain had, in truth, saved her.Kolton, often using emails and text messages written by her alters, mixed with her own journal entries, paints an honest, intimate and at times humorous portrait of a woman living with DID, managing the inhabitants of her own creation. With memories so raw and real, she puts to rest any