Do you think Dissociative Identity Disorder is real?
Have you come across anyone in real life that has /had multiple personality disorder?
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nonsensiclesnail 路 F
pianoplayingsteve 路 31-35, M
@nonsensiclesnail your disorder must be pretty real if your second personality had their own bed and everything
UnderstandMe 路 F
@nonsensiclesnail what kind of issues? How did you manage being with her different personalities?
nonsensiclesnail 路 F
@UnderstandMe
How did we deal with it. Cautiously, taking it one day at a time.
She is a friend of my daughters and when they were in high school, she stayed with us for a month in the summer. I knew of her issues before she moved in. We would see it in little pockets, mostly because she spent most of her time out and about or with our daughter.
She would do and say things out of character, as someone else and then have no memory of it. A total personality shift, but nothing ever more than hurtful words or really brash comments. She would do her hair differently., war different clothes that the day before she was getting rid of because she hated and had no idea why she had them around anymore. But it was fine, mostly. Really neat lady, has lived an interesting life so far, but difficult. She鈥檚 dealt with a lot of loss in recent years which has made her a lot to deal with. Ive always thought she would do something great one day.
As an adult she lived with us for 3 or 4 months is all. She divorced her husband of two year after having decided, once again, that she was a lesbian and felt it wasn鈥檛 fair to him. She would have been longer but my son and grandson moved back in with us and she felt weird about it and got her own place. But this time, it was a lot harder and honestly was a relief when she left. I鈥檝e had very little interactions with her since. She made my husband very very uncomfortable.
I cant tell you how many times she offered my husband and I, never together, but separately, a thrupple relationship. She says she flirts when shes anxious. She gets aggressively sexual and possessive of people. She informed me that she was going to have my daughter one day, she was hers. But I know from knowing her all these years, that wasn鈥檛 really her. It鈥檚 part of her, one of her personalities, but not who she is usually.
She would have entire conversations with us, all giggle and smiles to. A few moments later believing she hadn鈥檛 seen us in three days. She mentally lives in the past in these down times and has a. Whole world of optimism and plans in the others. She鈥檚 on or shes off. She doesn鈥檛 have a lot of in between. It wasn鈥檛 an absolute personality change, like she didn鈥檛 have another name or anything crazy. She was just unaware of her actions, good or bad, a short time later. Depending on what version of her she was in the moments that you had talked to her previously.
The one thing I can say is that id never go along with her crazy moment ideas, i just kept her at arms length and didn鈥檛 argue in any way, or she would just go on and on and on and on and on. I. Would extricate myself from the situation and leave the house honestly. And by the time I would come back she would either be holed up in her room, or fine again. She has a lot of medical issues going on, she was on all sorts of things and if she forgot to take her meds, it was painfully obvious. I would usually jsut ask her about her pills and she would think it over and figure it out.
She鈥檚 spent a good amount of time seeing doctors, going in and out of mental facilities since she stayed with us. She鈥檚 not doing great. I would love to be of help to her, but a little part of me is scared of the havoc she will bring back into my life, so I stay away. Yet at the same time, I know she needs a support system. I dont think I can be that for her.
How did we deal with it. Cautiously, taking it one day at a time.
She is a friend of my daughters and when they were in high school, she stayed with us for a month in the summer. I knew of her issues before she moved in. We would see it in little pockets, mostly because she spent most of her time out and about or with our daughter.
She would do and say things out of character, as someone else and then have no memory of it. A total personality shift, but nothing ever more than hurtful words or really brash comments. She would do her hair differently., war different clothes that the day before she was getting rid of because she hated and had no idea why she had them around anymore. But it was fine, mostly. Really neat lady, has lived an interesting life so far, but difficult. She鈥檚 dealt with a lot of loss in recent years which has made her a lot to deal with. Ive always thought she would do something great one day.
As an adult she lived with us for 3 or 4 months is all. She divorced her husband of two year after having decided, once again, that she was a lesbian and felt it wasn鈥檛 fair to him. She would have been longer but my son and grandson moved back in with us and she felt weird about it and got her own place. But this time, it was a lot harder and honestly was a relief when she left. I鈥檝e had very little interactions with her since. She made my husband very very uncomfortable.
I cant tell you how many times she offered my husband and I, never together, but separately, a thrupple relationship. She says she flirts when shes anxious. She gets aggressively sexual and possessive of people. She informed me that she was going to have my daughter one day, she was hers. But I know from knowing her all these years, that wasn鈥檛 really her. It鈥檚 part of her, one of her personalities, but not who she is usually.
She would have entire conversations with us, all giggle and smiles to. A few moments later believing she hadn鈥檛 seen us in three days. She mentally lives in the past in these down times and has a. Whole world of optimism and plans in the others. She鈥檚 on or shes off. She doesn鈥檛 have a lot of in between. It wasn鈥檛 an absolute personality change, like she didn鈥檛 have another name or anything crazy. She was just unaware of her actions, good or bad, a short time later. Depending on what version of her she was in the moments that you had talked to her previously.
The one thing I can say is that id never go along with her crazy moment ideas, i just kept her at arms length and didn鈥檛 argue in any way, or she would just go on and on and on and on and on. I. Would extricate myself from the situation and leave the house honestly. And by the time I would come back she would either be holed up in her room, or fine again. She has a lot of medical issues going on, she was on all sorts of things and if she forgot to take her meds, it was painfully obvious. I would usually jsut ask her about her pills and she would think it over and figure it out.
She鈥檚 spent a good amount of time seeing doctors, going in and out of mental facilities since she stayed with us. She鈥檚 not doing great. I would love to be of help to her, but a little part of me is scared of the havoc she will bring back into my life, so I stay away. Yet at the same time, I know she needs a support system. I dont think I can be that for her.
UnderstandMe 路 F
@nonsensiclesnail must be a very difficult situation to handle for you but the way you handled her is worth an applause.The fact that you didnt loose your own senses or didn鈥檛 get angry in order to manage her speaks a lot about your personality and kindness.
Very glad that you shared your experiences with us.馃
Very glad that you shared your experiences with us.馃