"This is Dr. Yankem giving my personal assessment of one, Jane Doe, at last questioning going by the name Kylie Raymond. Of course, in Jane's case, the name she gives us is a moot point. It will change the next time her personality state changes.
The fact that Jane even appears to have personality states leads me to believe that she may have Dissociative Identity Disorder. However, if this is the case, this might be one of the more intriguing cases of it I've ever seen.
What we do know for a fact is that something happened in her past. Some trauma, most likely when she was very young, that her mind simply couldn't deal with. Questions about Jane's past are an immediate reset for her personality state. Though…reset might be the wrong word. That implies…going back to a default. As far as we've been able to tell, Jane's 'default' is so deeply buried that it might as well be non-existent.
Unlike most cases of DID I've come across, Jane's personality states are completely different each time. From family to name to age to where she's from to accent, even to small facial expressions. We've taken a log of each change and she's never used the same information more than one time. On occasion, she might use the same state when asked where she's from, but never the same city. This implies that Jane might very well have a photographic memory. This might have made her trauma, whatever it was, infinitely worse.
My opinion is that she's running from her past so hard in her mind that it can't just…rest on a single…self. Jane feels that she must keep changing and never be the same person more than once. However, another thing that separates Jane's condition with that of DID is that as far as her short-term memory goes, she doesn't lose time when her personality state changes. She remembers that we ask her the same questions, and as far as it goes in her mind, she gives us the same answers even though that's far from the truth. Any proof otherwise merely changes her personality state again.
Overall, these personality states are harmless. Jane just wanders around doing her own thing. She's actually rather charming and witty in her own way. However, she does get the occasional 'dangerous' trait from her changes. Sometimes we'll find her sneaking into places with no clue how she got there, or she'll get paranoid or desperate.
She's in remarkably good shape and much stronger than she looks and from what the guards say, 'fights like a sexy Jet Li'. This could imply that she's had some training and PTSD might be playing a part in this. Luckily these dangerous traits are almost never in the same personality state or…we might have another problem… Apparently it is very unwise to attack her directly unless you know what you're doing. Of course, if you simply ask her a question about her past, then the personality state will change. As I said before, these dangerous traits are rare. So, while they can be a problem, they're also easily managed.
Now when things become especially interesting is when Jane becomes 'anchored'. As noted earlier, the majority of her personality alters when she switches from one personality state to the next, with her short-term memory remaining and rewriting itself to fit the new personality state so that no time is lost. This however, changes when she anchors to another person.
What I mean by anchoring is…hm…how should I put this…? On occasion, Jane will come across someone who fits an archetype that all her personality states seem to be searching for. Most of her personality states speak about comic book characters, superheroes especially, and I feel she looks for that heroism in people. She searches for someone as noble and altruistic and selfless as the characters she read about. If someone seems to fit that mold in her mind, she anchors to them.
Her next personality state will then solidify around that person. Her world will revolve around that anchor and aspects of her personality might change to suit that person. Her past will still change when asked about it but she's aware of this and tries to guide conversations away from those subjects. And even when this happens, only her past will change. Not the entire personality state. Her 'present' and immediate past from when she met the anchor will remain the same.
While it may be tempting to encourage this more…focused state, it's also the most dangerous. When Jane is unanchored, then when something conflicts with her current personality state, she merely switches to a new one. When anchored, she has two responses to a conflict. She either changes a part of her personality state to fit it or destroys the conflict entirely.
For example, when she was found, Jane was staying at a house that wasn't hers. The police still haven't found the original residents. As far as she was concerned, that was her house and anything that didn't fit that belief needed to go. Jane also taps into those dangerous traits more frequently when she's anchored. She'll want to know everything there is to know about the anchor and she's remarkably resourceful in ways of finding out that information. The anchor rarely even realizes that they're being watched.
I'd like to think that if Jane found the right anchor and moved somewhere remote where just the two of them could live out their lives then she'd live a happy life. Unfortunately, most people aren't wired that way. We seek out others like ourselves. One person usually isn't enough. That's why we usually need both family and friends. And if anyone or thing comes in the way of Jane and her anchor, she has them dealt with. Usually in the form of a disappearance unless she feels personally slighted. And in that case, she becomes very…inventive with her punishments depending on the severity of the slight.
She'd never hurt the anchor itself. She's so dedicated to the anchor that she would gladly die for them in fact. This focused state remains the same unless the anchor fails to meet her expectations of a 'hero' and to a lesser extent if they say or do something that directly conflicts with her personal reality. Depending on the conflict, she'll go through the…rather unnerving process of rewriting the memory in her head. She doesn't respond to anything in the outside world while this is happening. She doesn't blink, she doesn't eat, she merely repeats the new memory over and over until she can overwrite the trauma of the conflict. The amount of time this takes varies.
Now…I've seen firsthand what happens when Jane no longer sees an anchor as her anchor. It's…
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If…if someone tried to weaponize that state of mind with the way that she moved and…
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Anyway…I've…never seen any human being that focused on causing another human being physical harm. I don't…have words for it. I am not a religious man but if you told me that Lucifer himself possessed her at that moment, I would not be able to make a sufficient argument otherwise. And of course, afterwards she gets a new personality state which makes her the victim of the situation.
That aside…she is clearly a victim. Though some of my colleagues do not agree. I must believe that for her to lash out to that extent, she must want so much worse for that hero to save her. Probably from herself. To shatter such an…undoubtedly brilliant mind as Jane's…I feel that that's the true monstrosity here. Something happened to her that was so horrible that she can never stop running away from it. She's always searching for a hero to keep for herself. Someone who can make her feel truly safe. Even her made up pasts are never happy ones. Everyone deserves some happy memories.
I did have something of a breakthrough recently. Jane appears to be cognizant that her pasts aren't real without being anchored. Her personality states aren't quite so different anymore. She appears to me more eager to get treatment. She wants to get better. I feel like I'm beginning to get through to her.
Jane still doesn't appear to be able to face her past but she's aware of this. I'd even go as far as to say that she's having…fun…with it. The pasts that she's coming up with are more and more ridiculous. I'd almost see this as a regression if she didn't seem to see it as a joke. She is acknowledging that there is a problem and that gives me a foothold that I can make some leeway with. I'm planning on using hypnosis tomorrow to see if I can get some consistent memories when her mind isn't in such a guarded state. I'm cautiously optimistic."
(A/N: And there you go. Hopefully that will satisfy a lot of peoples' curiosity about "Hailey" at least to an extent. I know people want to know more specifics about Hailey's past but there are so many interesting options that until I need to choose one, then they won't solidify in my mind. As I've told a couple of you, this is probably not the last you will see of Hailey. I obviously find the character very interesting and put a lot of thought into her, so…if you see a girl by the name of Hailey show up in another story, be afraid…be very afraid.
Oh! Don't know how clear this was, but Hailey's 'breakthrough' was totally her anchoring to Dr. Yankem. She just knew enough that if she appeared anchored, then they'd give her another doctor so she played the part of a slowly recovering patient. I was going to do a full police report on the aftermath of Hailey's hypnosis(which despite what TV tells you is apparently NOT a good idea to do on someone with DID) but I couldn't be bothered so I'll just tell you what happens.
The hypnosis triggers one of her 'dangerous' states out of self-defense with getting too close to the initial trauma, and she snaps, killing Yankem and anyone she knows has seen her. Since she's kept in isolation so that she doesn't anchor to anyone, this wasn't a long list. From there she destroyed all of the records of her stay that she could find and escaped, resetting to another personality state and wandering around(coming across the goons' boss at some point and doing him a favor) until she found Dave and we know how that ended up for her. Oddly enough, I think Dave would have fit her ideal pretty well if it wasn't for his remaining friends.)