sadness

[boodie]

I have a very very dear friend, someome that I love very much, she has DID,(Dissociative Identity Disorder (until very recently known as Multiple Personality Disorder - MPD) http://www.sidran.org/didbr.html

Over the past few years, as well as talking to her, i have talked lots to various aspects of her many alters, one in particular, a little child, who was rather fragile but strong at the same time, she took all the pain for the other littlies in the group.

Well tonight my dear friend tells me that the little girl, who was very sweet, just couldn't handle the pain anymore and she died, now if you've never known anyone with DID, you wont understand how REAL each of these other alters are, each has dislikes and likes, and is different.

My dear friend is very sad, and so am I, I shall miss the little girl very much, she always brightened my night and loved it when I told her bed time stories

it's just like a very much loved friend dying.

Comments

[sjwt.livejournal.com]

I sware,
im this *||* far away from MPD..

[dancinglights.livejournal.com]

I understand... I was very close to an mpd collective for quite some time, and similar things have happened. *hugs*

I think the oddest thing about it is if, quite some time later, little quirks of that personality begin to surface in the others, simply because of the way an MPD mind can work... I'm still not quite sure how to handle it. It's like seeing the ghost of someone that most people don't believe ever existed....

[funnelwebkitten.livejournal.com]

Thank you, thats exactly how I feel, I know to people who havent had any contact with someone who has DID, it may seem very strange, but each of my friends alters are real to her and to me, and it was just like losing a loved child.

I don't know what to say or do for her, according to some stuff i've read the dead alter could come back, or as you say reappear in another alter.

thats gonna be a bit strange for both of us

*hugs*