“One clue that you might have a case of engineered rather than organic DID on your hands could be the intense feelings of being deskilled and inadequate that arise in you as you are treating one of these clients. They puzzle and confuse even the most experienced of therapists until their multiplicity is recognized as engineered.

Another sign might be the sudden appearance of self-harm, compulsions, or 'crazy' behavior after patient disclosures. These people have trip wires layered into their programming that are set to 'go off' whenever a therapist gets too close to a hidden truth or when the client remembers something new. These booby trap programs can look like:

• sudden suicidal impulses out of nowhere, especially ones that are 'supposed to look like an accident'. as one client told me

• scrambled words or word salad in a client that has no history of schizophrenia

• an abrupt nonnegotiable firing of the therapist when the client is making progress

• pseudoseizures—episodes that look like grand mal seizures or dropping into a semi-conscious state with no EEC evidence of seizure activity

• feelings of being electrically 'shocked' at different places on the body

• recurrent and constant migraines

• an unexplained compulsion to return to a previously abusive environment that they have successfully left, such as an abusive family of origin or spouse, especially at certain times of the year such as Halloween.”