A girl with 5 personalities

Chapter 1: How it all started

My name is Mia Cohen, and I am a girl with Dissociative Identity Disorder. I’m a 13-year-old girl who lives in Colorado, U.S if you all are wondering how I got DID, well here’s how it happened.

I was just 7-years-old but my mom and dad along with my two siblings, Mika and Matthew, they’d always yell at me and tell me what to do or how I should act. Since I’m a really sensitive girl, this really makes me cry and my parents always tell me to stop crying because I’m not a baby anymore and I should care less about what people say about me. I did want that to happen but as a sensitive person, it’s very hard for me, a lot. I never really experienced going to school because my parents think it other kids might influence me some bad things, so I was homeschooled until I was 11 years old.

When I was 12 years old I went to school for the first time but my parents and siblings continued to yell at me and I was so happy because I thought the yelling would stop and be over now once I get out of the house for an hour. But I didn’t know that’s where everything will get worse. When it was the first day of school, I excitedly but shyly went to school feeling a bit nervous and thought to myself if it’s just normal and imagined a scenario where I’ll meet so many people. As I arrived at school wearing a long pink dress I excitedly roamed around the school, all the students were looking at me as if it’s their first time seeing a girl like me. While I was walking while looking up, I suddenly tripped and fell to the ground, I saw all the students were laughing at me but I just let it go and continued walking, but while I was walking I bumped into a girl then she pushed me to the ground and said “watch where you’re going weirdo” then I was holding my tears but in the end, I couldn’t handle it

“Aw, a little girl about to cry?” She said mocking me while making a crying face, I looked around and saw everyone staring at me, I felt really embarrassed. I tried not to let a single teardrop and go to the bathroom to cry it all out when suddenly, a girl bumped me and spilled her hot coffee on my pastel pink dress, then everyone laughed at me once more, because of how embarrassed I felt, I suddenly felt really dizzy then my vision became pitch black.

When I woke up I was in my bedroom bed and my sister Mika was there staring at me “What, How did I get here” I asked her with a calm tone “Mia? Is that you now this time” She said “What are you talking about, I’ve always been myself” I said when I suddenly felt pain in my arms and hands, I took a look and my hands have bandages I was really surprised “what happened to my hands” I stuttered “According to mom, you had a fight with three girls and you beat the s**t outta them” I was shocked by what she said. she smirked at me “what, but I would never do such a thing! Even if those girls were mean to me I would never pick a fight!” I told her while freaking out, but then she showed me a video of me fighting with three girls while my hair is tied, I was so surprised when I saw it, it didn’t look like me at all.

“where’s Matthew, Mom, and Dad?” I asked “Well, Mom went to a doctor and Dad and Matthew are downstairs,” She said “why are you being so nice to me,” I asked her once more “what, you don’t remember?” She said while smiling “remember what” I said worried “You talked to all of us earlier, you made us realize some mistakes we’ve been treating you” She said. I got more and more confused about what she said because I don’t remember doing any of those things she said and I especially can’t even do those things. After a few minutes of thinking, Mom suddenly came and she’s with a doctor, I was wondering if I might be sick or something “Doctor, here she is, earlier today she was at school and she fought 3 girls who based on her explanation was bullying her on the first day, she said her name was, Lucy, but my daughter’s name is Mia and not Lucy” My mother explained. As I heard the name Lucy I became really confused, I don’t remember exactly everything after I collapsed but I hoped I didn’t do anything wrong. After the doctor gave me a check he said nothing seems wrong with me and suggested mom to take me to a psychiatrist. I got a lot more worried about that.

While mom and I were walking to the psychiatrist, she was so quiet and she looked a bit scared, I wondered why so I tried talking to her “Mom, can you tell me what exactly happened to everything, I’m really confused and I don’t remember anything” I told her with my normal gentle voice. Mom started to inhale deeply then talked “I don’t really know either, you just suddenly became so tough then you became so hyper and cheerful then suddenly you became like a quiet loner who wants to be alone then suddenly you started studying a lot and reading more books, I don’t know thinking about it gives me a headache,” she said rubbing her head. After a few minutes of talking with the psychiatrist, the results have arrived, me and my mom sat down on a seat and looked at the doctor looking so scared

“Ma'am, I’m afraid Mia Cohen has been diagnosed with, Dissociative Identity Disorder” I was so shocked, I felt a bit surprised, Dissociative Identity Disorder, A mental sickness of a person having 2 or more personalities “And Mia has been diagnosed with 4 more personalities inside her” It made my jaw drop, different 4 personalities? Yeah, it’s really really tough to handle it, especially when you don’t remember what your other personalities might have done that you don’t really like. After that, we went home and Mom told Dad and my siblings that I have DID. End of chapter 1