Meet Karen Overhill, The Woman Who Has 17 People Living Inside Her Head

A 29-year-old young woman Karen Overhill’s (pseudonym) case has become very popular across the world because she claims that there are at least 17 people living inside her head. She was diagnosed with one of the weirdest mental disorder which is multiple personality disorder by her doctor.

It has been almost a decade since her treatment began. This has also become one of the fascinating medical cases in the world. It is being diagnosed that the multiple personality disorder has been the result of the abuse she had received in the hands of her family.  

1 People are amazed by the ability of her brain to attain 17 personalities

Karen Overhill’s case proves that abuses lead to mental illness. However, at the same time, people are also amazed by the ability of her brain to attain 17 different personalities. The whole story of Overhill’s tryst with multiple personalities and her recovery with it is nothing less than fascinating.

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2 Dr. Baer took three years to conclude that she was suffering from multiple personality disorder

It took Dr. Baer three years to come to a conclusion that Overhill was suffering from multiple personality disorder. Initially, the doctor thought that she was just a depressed mom who needed some medication for recovery. But, as the time progressed and she began to reveal more thing to him, the doctor thought that she might be suffering from something which is much larger than that.

Dr. Baer attempted the case in a very slow manner as he wanted to be sure that Overhill was suffering from multiple personality disorder before moving forward.

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3 Overhill was victim of sadistic cult in which her father was involved in abuse of children

Overhill was a victim of the sadistic cult in which her father and grandfather was involved in the violent abuse of young children. The woman said that during the 1960sm, her father assembled people from the different profession who later participated in the violent abuse of young children. The doctor did not immediately believed in the claims of Overhill. He wanted to check the facts. While doing so, he found that Overhill’s father was convicted of sexual abuse for assaulting a girl in the family in 1993.

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