Multiple Personalities Support Group
Dissociative identity disorder is a diagnosis described as the existence in an individual of two or more distinct identities or personalities, each with its own pattern of perceiving and interacting with the environment. At least two of these personalities are considered to routinely take control of the individual's behavior, and there is also some associated memory loss,...
I just want to put this out as a warning. I am a Christian. When I first came to the Lord everyone was telling me that I was demon possessed and needed deliverance to be from these personalities, which they called demons. Naturally being new to all this I went and found a person who did deliverance. Not knowing at the time that Christians cannot be possessed, but they can be oppressed. She fought for a few months to cast out these demons. The ones that were oppressing me did leave for a season, but as far as the personalities they all just got so pissed off.
I was accused of having no faith to get through this and to be set free from these personalities. I was so ashamed of myself and disappointed that I just could not be rid of this problem. It just did not measure up. The Bible indicates that there is no shame or condemnation in Christ. So, why did I feel so belittled? This helplessness caused me one too many suicide attempts and hospitalizations.
By the grace of God He lead me to a Christian counselor. She had her degree in the proper education for counseling and on top of that she was well educated in the Word.
She was trained in PTSD and we found the connections to my personalities.
Yes, I am a Christian who could at times be oppressed by certain ungodly creatures, but I am not possessed. I have multiple personalities, because that was the blessing God gave me in order to cope and not go mentally insane from the abuse.
I hope this helps someone, because I wish someone would have explained this to me. It could have prevented me from losing my faith and hope that God would guide me and set me free.
I was accused of having no faith to get through this and to be set free from these personalities. I was so ashamed of myself and disappointed that I just could not be rid of this problem. It just did not measure up. The Bible indicates that there is no shame or condemnation in Christ. So, why did I feel so belittled? This helplessness caused me one too many suicide attempts and hospitalizations.
By the grace of God He lead me to a Christian counselor. She had her degree in the proper education for counseling and on top of that she was well educated in the Word.
She was trained in PTSD and we found the connections to my personalities.
Yes, I am a Christian who could at times be oppressed by certain ungodly creatures, but I am not possessed. I have multiple personalities, because that was the blessing God gave me in order to cope and not go mentally insane from the abuse.
I hope this helps someone, because I wish someone would have explained this to me. It could have prevented me from losing my faith and hope that God would guide me and set me free.
I too was raised Christian...so, the whole thing scared my parents. But now we know what we're dealing with. We're just trying to figure out how best to deal with it.
So, on top of all that, my older sister introduced me to this Charismatic church when I was a teenager. Well, it certainly was more lively than the tiny country Presbyterian church near where I lived with my mother. Besides that, several of my friends from school went there, too. And that's where I learned about the Holy Spirit, speaking in tongues, (which, oddly enough, some Christians think it is demonicly influenced) and, of course, demon possession. Now, this church was in a tiny little logging town about 5 miles away from the tiny Presbyterian church near where I lived. All that to say, along with being a very naive country bumpkin and NO realistic understanding of psychology (which, we were taught at the Charasmatic church, were really just a bunch of brain-washing mind-controllers).....(try overcoming THAT obstacle to get mental help!!)
Talk about needing to invert my point of view!!!! Good grief!!!
Well, as I understood then, as a teenager from a Charasmatic church, when I first heard of MPD which was on an Oprah show, I believe....demonic possession seemed to me, to be obviously the "real" cause of it. But that's because that's all I'd been taught, all I knew, and had NO idea what psychology was really like. But I believed that what I had been in told in church was the truth and they knew the truth, so what else was there to need to know?
Well, as it has turned out to be.....that would be.....THE TRUTH!!! lol!!