Sybil Squared

Patricia Burgus, 42, has won a $10.6 million settlement in a lawsuit against her psychiatrist and a hospital. Her suit alleged that when she sought treatment for depression from Dr. Bennett Braun, he used “repressed memory therapy” to convince her that she had 300 personalities, was a cannibal who made meatloaf out of her friends, had molested her children, and was the high priestess of a satanic cult. She says she was committed to a psychiatric hospital for two years, and her two children for three years, after she was misdiagnosed as having a split personality disorder, but her own common sense prevailed. “I began to add a few things up and realized there was no way I could come from a little town in Iowa, be eating 2,000 people a year, and nobody said anything about it,” Burgus said. (AP) ...On the other hand, sometimes even your best friends won’t tell you about your shortcomings.