Of all the topics I’ve had to write on this blog, I relate more with this one. I was diagnosed with Multiple Personality Disorder some years back. Taking drugs and therapy to suppress the “dark side”, to manage the so called mental illness.
That was a major mistake. I shouldn’t have listened to my family and the doctors.
Thinking back now, there’s no way I can know what I’d achieved with the suppressed personalities. I know I am a poet, a writer, a farmer and that’s about all. I might have used drugs to inhibit the scholar in me, or the athlete in me.
My deepest regret is that I might have suppressed my personality that has the capacity to injure, to maim, to flay, and to commit murder. Phoenix is here, but I might have killed the Ted Bundy in me.
©Ridwan Akinkunmi Ajagbe
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