My WorlD: November 2010

Recently I just finished reading book about Milligan. He is an awesome guy. I'm shocked to read his childhood, what a poor Billy being abuse by his stepfather, who always bullied him not like a human. Though at last, I'm proud with Billy, after how bad his stepfather treat him, after he is free, though he had hated his dad so much and wish to make a revenge, he forgive his dad.
What a great decision.
I feel sympathy to him. He must really have his hard time, and I'm amazed toward him. He must have struggle very hard to fight for his rights towards the media, court, and especially public. Pity on him being trapped between the politic war.
I really admired the people who fights for him, especially Dr.Caul and Gary Schweickart, his therapist and lawyer. They fight for him till the end of their life.
Hopefully after read Billy's story, people could differ between real bad people, or just a person who even didn't aware of what he is doing.

Here is some story about Billy :
William Stanley Milligan (born 1955), known as Billy Milligan, was the subject of a highly publicized court case in Ohio in the late 1970s. After having committed several felonies including armed robbery, he was arrested for three rapes on the Ohio State University campus. In the course of preparing his defense, psychologists diagnosed Milligan with multiple personality disorder. Milligan pleaded insanity, claiming that two of his alternate personalities committed the crimes without Milligan's being aware of it. He was the first person diagnosed with multiple personality disorder to raise such a defense.

In 1975, Milligan was imprisoned at Lebanon Correctional Institution in Ohio, for rape and armed robbery. He was released on parole in early 1977. He was also forced to register as a sex offender. In October 1977, Milligan was arrested for raping three women on the Ohio State University campus. He was identified by one of his victims, from existing police mug shots of sex offenders, and from fingerprints lifted from another victim's car.

Since he had used a gun and guns were found in a search of his residence, he had violated his parole as well. He was indicted on "...three counts of kidnapping, three counts of aggravated robbery and four counts of rape."

In the course of preparing his defense, he underwent a psychological examination by Dr. Willis C. Driscoll, who diagnosed Milligan with acute schizophrenia. He was then examined by psychologist Dorothy Turner of Southwest Community Mental Health Center in Columbus, Ohio. During this examination, Turner concluded that Milligan suffered from multiple personality disorder. Milligan's public defenders, Gary Schweickart and Judy Stevenson, pleaded an insanity defense, and he was committed "...until such time as he regains sanity".

Milligan was sent to a series of state-run mental hospitals, such as the Athens Lunatic Asylum, where, by his report, he received very little help. While he was in these hospitals, Milligan reported having ten different personalities. These ten were the only ones known to psychologists. Later on an additional 14 personalities, labeled "The Undesirables" were discovered. Among the first ten were Arthur, a prim and proper Englishman; Allen, a con artist and manipulator; Ragen Vadascovinich, a Yugoslavian communist who Milligan claimed had committed the robberies in a kind of Robin Hood spirit; and Adalana, a 19-year-old lesbian who craved affection and who had allegedly committed the rapes.

Milligan received treatment from psychiatrist David Caul, who diagnosed an additional fourteen personalities

Released in 1988 after a decade in mental hospitals, Milligan now lives in California where he owns Stormy Life Productions and makes films. He still claims to suffer from multiple personality disorder.

For more information about Billy, you may visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Milligan
or read his book " The Minds of Billy Milligan "