Baptist College
It
soon became apparent that the Baptist college Kristin had driven off to
without first checking it out isn't the environment that she needs to heal from
dissociative identity disorder and
cast out demons. The
"real spiritual warrior"
Baptist college president / pastor didn't believe in
casting out demons and had no idea about
dissociative identity disorder. He
believed in waging spiritual warfare only by preaching the Gospel. While the
Gospel should be preached to everyone, including to those who have demons, Jesus
commanded us to cast demons out of people in His name, not just
preach the Gospel to them.
Kristin's days at the Baptist college were filled with classes, homework, chores, and then being sent out in groups to knock on doors and invite people to the Baptist church. She had a roommate and a curfew, so the only time and space she had to cast out demons and let her child alters surface to talk was in our car that she drove to a secluded location at night and then drove back to the Baptist college dormitory before the curfew.
She also said the air quality in the area is bad, although she didn't know the source of the air pollution, and the showers run only cold water on most days. As the weather cooled, she began to get sick. The Baptist college had a policy of letting the students skip their two hours of daily chores if they pay extra money. Kristin agreed to use those two hours to rest and take care of herself if I were to pay the extra fee, so I paid it. Once it was paid, however, she began to use her free time to drive her classmates into town. She was one of the few students at the dormitory who had a car and seemed to like the attention that using it to drive others around brought. I reminded her that her spiritual well-being and those of her alters are more important than taking her classmates to the supermarket, as well as our agreement that she will use the extra time to rest. But she didn't listen, got sick, and began to frequent the local hospital.
She did seem to like being with Americans her age for the first time in four years, but said that some of them have demons, and that there is a boy, a 19-year-old named Johah, who she said is infatuated with her and follow her around like a puppy.
The college's course work consisted of its president/pastor, his wife, children, and church members, many of whom have no accredited post-secondary education, pumping Baptist doctrines into the students, whose homework is to regurgitate on paper what they heard that day. Kristin began to ask me to proofread her homework, and I was surprised to find that she could no longer write as before. When I first began to exchange emails with her five years prior, she wrote so well that I had even told her that she has been gifted to write. Now, she wrote like a pre-high schooler and had trouble putting together a coherent sentence.
Dissociative identity disorder 'experts' claim that as the alters integrate into the core person, the core person becomes more and more functional as he or she is enriched by the integrating personalities and abilities of each alter who integrates. But I had felt that as Kristin's alters integrate, her personality is in fact becoming more different from that of the alters who integrated, and she is becoming less and less functional, as she in fact lost the abilities of the alters who integrated. The loss of her writing ability was a clear evidence that the latter was happening.
I reminded Kristin that she had driven off to that Baptist college to be helped spiritually, not to focus on getting a diploma that would be useless anyway since the school has no accreditation, and advised her to quit and drive to the counselor referred by the lady and with whom I had been corresponding when she drove off. Kristin didn't listen and insisted that I continue to help her not only proofread but in effect re-write her homework.