The Bourne Identity and DID



In an ongoing agenda of the Hollywood making, we find movies which seem to serve only to trivialize the reality of some devastating issues in this world. For instance, “Eyes Wide Shut”, portraits the sick and twisted privileged world of power and lust acting out twisted fantasy. It’s real! ‘Split’ on the other hand portraits DID as a series of homicidal, psychotic episodes expressed through multiple personalities. Split is a total distortion of the truth. It’s no wonder that society has become so desensitized to the true nature of what might actually be going on around us.

Movies, like the Jason Bourne series, the Manchurian Candidate and The Long Kiss Goodnight, make for great entertainment. But is that all they are?

The main characters in these movies display something known as a psychogenic disorder called “Dissociative Fugue”. In each of these stories, a person was subjected to some type of programming that put them in an amnesic state. This state is characterized by a reversible amnesia, meaning that a person will eventually retain their alter memories, personalities and other characteristics.

What we find is that Dissociative Fugue can be part of DID. Especially if a person who has multiple personalities was subjected to some form of government mind control program like MKULTRA. 

This does not mean that DID’s will be homicidal, or emerge as expert killers, but Dissociative Fugue can explain some individual’s lost time, waking up in odd places, being accused of behaviors that are uncharacteristic of them. One of the key components of a Dissociative Fugue is that every one of them has what is known as a “handler”. You may be familiar with the term from other spy movies. 

Basically, a handler is responsible to keep their asset (person) under control, trigger them when necessary, adjust them if their asset is unraveling, basically to keep them on track.

What helped my wife to heal was when we broke the relationship with her handler (who happened to be her dad). Once he was no longer able to “manage his asset” she was free to heal. 

I could get into examples that we see coming out of Hollywood, like Britney Spears, Selina Gomez, Justin Bieber, to name a few, but I will let you do your own research. 


If you are DID, or you love someone with DID, you must figure out a way break your contact with your handler so you can heal. If this is about you, you know it is real. 

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