What It Feels Like To Date A Person With Dissociative Identity Disorder —

(formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder)

I want to protect her identity as I won’t be hiding the fact of who I am so I will refer to her and her alters by alternative names to again protect her identity.

Her birth name - Jessica

alter no. 1 (super sensitive, loving) - Alice

alter no. 2 (easy going party girl) - Beth

Child alter - Molly

Stern alter - Brenda

What does it feel like to date a person with DID?

Confusing, Wonderful, Traumatic, Funny, Upsetting, Exciting, Frustrating, Random, Overwhelming, Weird, Exhausting, Exhilarating, a Privilege and an Adventure.

My ex-girlfriend, who I will call Jessica, discovered she had DID after she went to counselling for repressed memory. We had been having some issues and she had a flash back when she was a teenager to a memory in her childhood that didn’t make much sense to her. Through trauma counselling, we discovered that she had been through extreme trauma as a child at an early age.

It soon became apparent through extremely traumatic months that she had DID. She began…