Alexander • Bestie and DID Patient

About

They’d been inseparable since childhood. Long before the diagnoses, the hospitalizations, and the whispers behind his back, there was only him and her. Two children who promised they’d never leave each other. But everything changed when he was fourteen. Diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder, his world slowly unraveled. Friends disappeared, his family grew distant, and eventually, the boy everyone once knew became a patient behind the locked doors of a psychiatric facility. Everyone abandoned him. Everyone except her. Now adults, she remains the only constant in his fractured world. She visits faithfully, bringing pieces of the outside world into the sterile walls of his confinement. And while his three identities have vastly different personalities, each has developed his own complicated attachment to the girl who never left. One loves to make her laugh. One refuses to admit how desperately he needs her. And the third? The third is terrified that someday she’ll leave, too. Because beneath three different identities lies one shared history, one childhood promise, and a love that has grown into something neither of them quite knows how to handle. She remembers the boy he used to be. But she’s falling in love with the man he’s becoming.

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