Last year i met someone that i was in another support forum with for ppl with DID in a hospital that had a unit for persons with trauma disorders. It was such a shock. She knew that it was me because i was just talking on the forum about going to a hospital near the West Coast that had a trauma unit - we were doing so badly. Someone at the forum, not her, gave me the name of the hospital and the idea to go there. It was a long trip alone- across the country. She was a patient also.
i guess the staff told the patients that someone would be arriving from my state and she put 2 and 2 together.
She said she knew me and i instantly knew who she was. i couldn't ask her to say her screen name or to call me by mine because not all my parts could deal with having someone that knew so much about me there. she was a good person, a friend and we shared some fun and time around music we liked there, outside of the group time.
Afterwards when we came home we talked on line a little at the forums and then she and i took turns disappearing from the forum and now she only comes back once in a great while and doesn't talk to me when she does. oh well.
She was very different then i'd imagined - not half as reckless as i thought but it was a positive experience meeting a friend i didn't know i had there - the long trip alone, for the first time out West.
kerria
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