I'd like to hear from her former friends. I wonder what their side of the story is. In her Omega The Ghost video she describes what sounds like a very dramatic suicide attempt with a police search. Her friends were probably quite distressed by that and I'm not surprised that they didn't come running to the hospital. The only one who seemed to stick around was Jamie Martin, her boyfriend.
Her suicide attempt sounds like a story as well. Embellished at least. Anyone else I know who has attempted (like, really attempted, with the intention of dying), doesn't talk about it like it's a part of a movie plot. A quote from her, "The girl who tried to end her life regularly like a ritual," so which is it? Is suicide a singular event that is a severe point of trauma? Or a solemn habitual action?
I feel bad for the guy because he obviously has some real problems and Chloe's fans will rip him apart when they find the video. At least he was brave enough to say what all the other youtube commentators are too scared to say and the comments section seems to agree with his message for now.
I've refrained from criticizing him because he has bipolar disorder. I realize he's medicated, and all, but... yeah.
Going through my archive to put together a timeline for newcomers and I came across her Toi interview. She
does claim to have been abused. She also met with a psychiatrist prior to university who told her that her 'voices' were nothing to worry about. She promptly left his care and found someone who told her it
was something to worry about. This girl loves to doctor shop.
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Her first suicide attempt: She says she felt scared
AND dissociated. This is a contradiction. Dissociating is the feeling of detachment from oneself and reality, a complete state of disconnection. You would be unable to recall what you were feeling, because during dissociative episodes, you cannot form memories in the same way you do when you feel connected to yourself and reality. She would not be able to recall how she felt during it because she wouldn't have been connected to those feelings. She was released after 24 hours, meaning that the resident psychiatrist who evaluated didn't find any glaring issues with her and felt she was mentally stable enough to be released.
Her first dissociative episode: One of the things she mentions is that she felt like she was "playing a video game". My psychiatrist mentions that this is one of the key markers she looks for when people have factitious disorder presenting with DID. When you are playing a video game, you are in the driver's seat. You are in control of your actions, and you may be someone who is so imaginative and suggestive (which a lot of factitious/histrionic personalities are) that you become immersed and attached to the role-playing fantasy in a video game. What she's describing sounds like normal dissociation, and she's recalling it with the senses of being an adult.
Another thing about this story is that it doesn't strike me as likely that an 8 year old would be able to articulate, or even consider this level of distinguishing between feeling connected to reality and feeling disconnected from it. One of my only memories from childhood is of dissociating, but I didn't know that's what it was until recently. I had fallen off the monkey bars at school in a drizzle and had the wind knocked out of me, and I recall feeling like I was watching a memory, like I had died. When I got into 6th grade or something, I got super into witchcraft (The Craft was a popular movie at the time), and I told my friend I had out of body experiences. I was a very smart™ kid, and I still couldn't articulate that I didn't feel like I was myself or a part of reality. I also, even now, feel unsure if I'm actually remembering it, or if I'm only remembering remembering it because of what was told to me. Because there is absolutely no sensory information encoded with the memory, it's like looking at what you might create in your mind while reading a book.
"I felt like I was dreaming" sounds like normal dissociation. "I felt that nothing was real or solid" sounds like a lie.
Her first NHS visit: She states the counselor was confused by her depression. This doesn't sound right to me. Depression and anxiety disorders can have biochemical causes, and nutritional causes. She's spoken about having anorexia as a teen (and relapsing as an adult), which can cause depression. (and also, interestingly enough is the eating disorder that is
not linked to childhood abuse or PTSD). It is unlikely that a psychiatric professional would be confused about the source of severe depression and anxiety in the 21st century. In the same paragraph, she says that she had
literally no idea that she was being abused, therefore would never have suggested it, but then also had to be convinced that the issue was not "an environmental" one. Which is it? You had felt shame and guilt and sensed that you had been abused and couldn't get at the memory of it or you were blissfully unaware? It doesn't match up.
Her first visit with a psychiatrist: She says medication helped her. She says that DBT and group therapy did not help her. Dialectical behavior therapy is used to help patients learn coping mechanisms and develop healthy attachments. It is used to treat BPD (and it is helpful in patients who have had abuse and detachment from parents/guardians), PTSD, and DID. It has shown to be quite effective for patients with traumatic childhoods who did not have proper support systems to learn how to cope with stress. The fact that these therapies were not helpful and medication
was indicates to me that her issues are, in fact,
not based on early trauma and detachment from caregivers.
She also says that he told her her account of her internal dialogue wasn't anything he was concerned about. At this point, she likely had it stuck in her head that because the Crisis Team member told her it
wasn't normal, that this psychiatrist was somehow less qualified to evaluate her. I believe this must coincide when she started googling things to come up with her diagnosis and eventually found Dr. Remy Aquarone and the Pottergate Centre.
University: Her account here is that her alters were destroying her life and wouldn't let her get help by taking control of the body to make her miss appointments with mental health professionals. This doesn't make any sense whatsoever. They didn't feel "fulfilled" so they created chaos to have jobs? That's ludicrous, and insulting. I can't really dissect it much further than that. It's just offensive.
Yeah... the fuck? Just because you didn't have these things doesn't mean you were abused or neglected. Holy shit, these people man. Oh no, you didn't watch Fresh Prince of Bel-Air? That's so fucking sad mate, your parents should be executed via firing squad for their crimes against humanity.
She wasn't even ALIVE for most of the stuff in the list. I made a list in a previous post and the CD player was the only thing she WOULD have been exposed to. Imagine if they had said Walkman instead of CD player. She'd be crying because she didn't have that either!! Like great, you weren't poor, so you didn't have to play with fucking hand-me downs from the decade you were barely a fucking infant for.
The way she minimizes childhood trauma and abuse, and even just detachment from parents/guardians, and then plays the "well, I just don't remember mine cuz DID" card is just the worst shit an attention-seeking cow like her can do.
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I've been trying to put my finger on what about her bothers me so much, other than the malingering itself. I typically only get this invested when there's fraud involved.
I think what is so cow-like about her to me is that she is manipulating people by piercing typical intimate boundaries in relationships with strangers and taking advantage of the dynamics of parasocial relationships with children and codependent people with their own mental health issues to create income... in a way, it is a fraud in a class of its own.