Someone I love and care about very deeply recently admitted to be having what he called 'multiple personality disorder.' (Which I'm assuming is now refereed to as Dissociative Disorder.)
In all honesty I had no idea what it was, or how to even comprehend how it worked, so I started to read things on the internet. And it spooked me a bit simple because I don't understand it. I've never experienced it.
A couple weeks ago me and him got into a rather bad fight. He was saying and doing very hurtful things even when I wanted to drop it and was telling him he was right.
Tworeds the end of the fight I was so overwhelmed and drained by the fight that I ended up sending myself into a rather bad anxiety attack. I remember he reached his hand out to help me and as soon I clung to him it was like his whole additude and being just changed.
After calming me down he broke down crying and all he could say was, 'I'm so sorry. I tried so hard to come back. I could see that I was doing things to hurt you but I couldn't stop myself.'
Quite frankly, I don't want to be scared of him. (Like I stated earlier. I really care for and love him.) But in all honesty, I'm a little scared that I'm going to piss him off again and send him right back into the way he was that night.
I don't want to sound ignorant or say anything bad about people who suffer from this disorder, I just simple want to understand what to do, how to reconginze signs and how to help him when he's going into this state of being.
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Even on a cloudy day.
I need a heart that carries on through the pain
When the walls start collapsing again.
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