The next psychiatric hospitalization came a few months later. It was called Rapha, (Jehovah-our Healer). It was based off Dr. Robert McGee’s book, In Search For Significance and each day part of the book was incorporated into our therapy. It was foundational for us for several reasons. The material itself was deeply healing. Also, one of the videos they showed enlightened me to the fact that the counselor my husband and I were seeing was doing things that were clinically unethical and possibly dangerous. Rapha connected me up with a new counselor who was in our home town. This counselor couldn’t prescribe medicine but there was a psychiatrist who worked with the clients at that counseling center.

This was also pivotal for two reasons. For one, my husband refused to stop seeing the counselor we had previously been seeing together. For the other, this was my introduction to the psychiatrist who would eventually diagnose the MPD (Multiple Personality Disorder) which was later renamed DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder)