Where did they all go?
So, this is Kayla, the host, speaking right now. I just got out of my third hospitalization where a doctor told me that I 'don't follow specific characteristics of people with multiple personalities or with dissociative identity' and said that because I can communicate with my other personalities it means that its all just my imagination and that I
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In the late 1990s, we knew a group that were definitely multiple. They thought they had both natural and trauma-split origins. Many of them communicated, but they wanted to improve communication with certain people, especially some who were self-harming and threatening suicide.
They checked themselves into a dissociative disorders unit in a hospital and were treated just exactly the way you describe here.
They warned staff about the self-harm and asked for bed checks by a female attendant. Instead they got a male one and he made a pass at them. Security was so sloppy, they had many opportunities to hurt themselves although they didn't.
They were put on drugs that messed up their communication. It especially kept younger people from fronting, including the ones who had the stored memories they'd wanted to explore in therapy. They could not get people to front on cue, but these doctors kept trying to make them do that.
There is a young girl in their system who kept track of who everyone was. If these doctors had had a clue they'd have known that this is a very common and even classic thing reported in literature on MPD, but instead they claimed "no real multiple has such a person so you're making it up."
They were told they just thought they were multiple because they'd been reading fantasy novels and had latched onto an internet fad. The anxiety they were feeling was supposedly because they were six months from graduation and didn't want live in the real world and get a job. This was baloney as they already had a job at the time which they loved.
It was all extremely disrespectful. It did a lot of damage to their operating system. Things improved when they got off the drugs. They were still recovering and trying to sort things out when we knew them.
We're not violating their privacy by revealing this, as they gave us permission to tell their story.
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