Multiple personalities is real

I never thought it wasn’t real I just thought that movies made it more extreme

Okay let me explain

When we started dating he let me know and told me everything. I knew what I was getting into. He had a horrific childhood like I’m not even going to talk about that.. just know that I don’t know how he survived to adulthood.

In order to cope he created different personalities. I thought.. well I had never met anyone with this disorder so I always thought that it was like a little more severe than bipolar disorder.

There is a different person laying in my bed right now. I met him the other night. He fell asleep before me and I was sitting up watching tv and HE sat up and just stared at me. Let’s call my boyfriend J.

He just stared at me, and I said “j are you okay like holy crap” because he just had this look on his face like he had no FUCKING clue who I was and he said “this isn’t j.”

Every hair on the back of my neck stood up and I waited a moment thinking maybe he’s playing but no. That was not my boyfriend.

He had told me “when I go to sleep someone else wakes up and sometimes they’re mean.”

That hasn’t happened, like at all. All he’s done is just sit up and stare telling me he has no clue who I am or he wakes up in a different spot in the house not knowing how he got there. It’s not a fucking joke like it’s a real mental disorder and I didn’t know that and I cannot explain how baffling it is to look at the face of the person you love and absolutely not recognize them at all and they don’t know who you are either or how they got into your bed. And his face and voice are like unrecognizable, one of his personalities is almost child like. I think one serves as the protector and came out once, but there was no reason for that so he left. I have had full on conversations with him that he does not remember at all.

Im wondering if anyone here has met someone with MPD or has it themselves and can give me advice on being supportive or helpful in any way because I adore this guy and will take him as he comes even if he brings extra personalities he created in his mind in order to survive his childhood.

So far I’ve made a habit of making whoever is present feel welcomed. Tonight someone else woke up and looked at me and I knew who it was because of his face and he laid on my chest and went back to sleep instead of sitting there looking petrified so I think I am doing okay

Don’t make fun of this post. He has been through hell and back and wakes up either as someone else or in a complete panic because of PTSD because he used to wake up getting beaten