- Justin Donnelly: Your sister's manifesting a condition called dissociative identity disorder, DID for short. It means she has multiple personalities.
- Sarah Kinmount: What?
- Justin Donnelly: There's nothing to be afraid of. In fact, it's quite remarkable. A child powerless against abuse often creates other personalities or alters to survive the trauma.
- Sarah Kinmount: As a defense mechanism?
- Justin Donnelly: Exactly. The alters help the child say, this isn't happening to me, it's happening to someone else.
- Laurie Kinmount: Did my alters know all this and keep it from me?
- Justin Donnelly: Yes. And now, that you've remembered they'll begin to blend into you.
- Laurie Kinmount: Because they've been parts of who I really am all along?
- Justin Donnelly: Yes, Debbie is the child you used to be. Kate is your sense of self-preservation. Leona is the self you suppressed because of what happened.
- Laurie Kinmount: I'm a sex kitten.
- [laughs]
- Laurie Kinmount: What about Leigh?
- Justin Donnelly: Leigh was the key. He was the imaginary friend who floated you away from the pain. He helped you endure until the others could assume their roles.