In Today I'm Alice, she describes her extraordinary journey from a teenage girl battling anorexia and OCD, drowning the voices with alcohol, to a young woman slipping further and further into mental illness. It was only after years lost in institutions that she was correctly diagnosed with multiple personality disorder. When her alternative personalities were revealed in therapy she discovered how each one had their own memories of abuse and a full picture of her childhood finally emerged. As she learned to live with her many 'alters', she set out to confront the man who had caused her unbearable pain.
Moving and ultimately inspiring, this is a gripping account of a rare condition, and the remarkable story of a courageous woman.
Alice was a bright little girl hiding a terrible secret. She hid it from her family, but most of all she hid it from herself - because to protect Alice from her father's abuse, her mind created other personalities who would suffer in her place.
Now Alice takes the reader on an extraordinary journey as she uncovers the truth about her multiple personality disorder. From a child haunted by nightmares, Alice became an anorexic teen, dulling the pain with alcohol and slashing her arms with razors hundreds of times.
When she was sixteen Alice started hearing voices and eventually her other 'selves' emerged, children of all ages who took control, almost destroying her life in the process. It was only as their memories of abuse came out in later life that a full picture of her childhood emerged. Finally able to start the healing process, Alice found the strength to move on.
