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,...
Hi my name is Mycks, (short for makenzie). I'm no the main personality i came later. Her name is Liz. There are 5 of us, Liz, Mycks, Alex, Echo, and M. We are all different from eachother but we are a family and I love them all. Even M. She is a grumpy pants. We have only told one person in our personal lives about us, but she doesn't talk about it. We understand it's something that is hard to understand for people who don't have it, but it still stings a little. People always call us Liz no matter who is "out" it hurts us cuz we are here too. Liz feels guilty about it and i love her for that. We all have our fights with eachother. (cough cough M cough cough). This is our first time confessing stuff like this and it feels good. Thanks for reading and we hope to talk to others who are like us. :)
Love, Mycks
welcome to the group. I'm not Multiple myself, so I'm one of those that will never really understand. You've given me a new realisation, one I'd never thought about before. That you all have pretend (at least in part) to be the same person when you're out. Dunno why I never thought about that before, but I haven't. And yep, here's a good place to talk with people who are like you and and share experionces
kevin
I sometimes refer to myself as Team D (my first name starts with D) because yeah,we are all in there but can look just like the same old person to a co.worker who doesn't get it.
And even to someone who you explain the situation very clearly and thoroughly, they don't always understand or get it....like especially sometimes I will not know how to do something I've done a billion times, or will forget the way of it, and some people can't understand that.
Not to cop out on stuff, but I find it way easier to just tell people I have memory loss. Which is true. But when i need to, I stress the reality of having a swiss cheese memory condition, and sort of refer people to the movie 50 First Dates. I will just try to explain that my memory frequently dysfunctions and apologize foer whatever inconvenience.
In some situations that is just so much easier, and isn't a lie at least