Dr Jeni Haynes has 2682 people in her mind. She’s now telling how she lives with her ‘alters’

Dr Jeni Haynes has spent her life trying to make people believe what is, to many, unbelievable: that she has 2682 people inside her mind. Haynes was diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder (DID), formerly known as multiple personality disorder (MPD), a decade before she took the stand in a 2019 trial in a Sydney court that put her father, Richard Haynes, behind bars for 45 years.

Dr Jeni Haynes has 2682 people in her mind. She’s now telling how she lives with her ‘alters’. Dr Jeni Haynes has spent her life trying to make people believe what is, to many, unbelievable: that she has 2682 people inside her mind. Haynes was diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder (DID), formerly known as multiple personality disorder (MPD), a decade before she took the stand in a 2019 trial in a Sydney court that put her father, Richard Haynes, behind bars for 45 years. Setting a legal precedent, six of her alternate personalities, or “alters”, gave evidence, recalling in photographic detail the abuse, rape and torture she endured throughout her childhood. Dr Jeni Haynes, who has dissociative identity disorder, tells her story in a groundbreaking SBS documentary. “We’re perfectly sane people using an incredible survival strategy...