Essay On Truddi Chase

This autobiography is an account of Truddi Chase’s experiences through her various personalities. We see through the eyes of herself and her multiple personalities what the sexual abuse she received from her stepfather had done to her. Truddi Chase has not been present since the age of two and the sexual abuse from her stepfather continued until the age of sixteen. Truddi lived in short periods asleep, this would be when her person was taken by a succession of another person. Since she first fell “asleep” 92 separate individuals have taken over her body. This group of people are known as the Troop Formation. The Troops come together to write this book throughout their sessions with Truddi’s therapist Dr. Phillips. We connect with Dr. Phillips as we read about the progress made at each therapy session and we watch him struggle to diagnose and treat her. The Troops come together and manage to tell the story of both Truddi’s childhood abuse and her journey through therapy. Truddi herself says she only has but five memories of her entire life. The empty shell of Truddi says, “I don’t believe I have what most people would call emotions or feelings- just an awful fear, a guilt I can’t explain, and a sense
Sister Mary Catherine is a nun that keeps the sexuality of the other member in check. Some of the member are dead because they could not live through a particular bad part of Truddi’s life. Truddi begins to become aware of the Troops as they emerge to write or tell their stories. Once a member of the Troops is done telling the story a person called the Weaver forms a wall so Truddi cannot gain access to the memories of her horrible and damaging past. Dr. Phillips soon realizes the woman who comes in to speak to him is not at all the actual Truddi Chase but only a shell of her person that is taken over by the 92 characters that control