I sought mental health treatment so that I could have good quality of life. I did not want my mental illness to interfere with my career or my personal relationships.

When you say things that you do not remember or rather your other selves say things that you don't know about, it causes extreme confusion in your personal relationships. My alters don't think like I do and say things that I do not feel. But my significant others could not tell the difference between the personalities. There are differences but unless you are an astute study of character and personalities you would not recognize the difference.

In 1992 if I could have gotten to Dr. Colin Ross, I would have been okay. He would have understood my need to have dissociative disorders explained to my loved ones. I do not switch a lot but my alters are very developed and have no boundaries on what they say to my loved ones.

Treatment is to improve quality of life!