LIFE WITHIN A LIFE...I AM LOST!!!

Chapter 8 :: The Missing Dairy

Dr.Tanya purposefully had not placed the diary back and had asked Lisa's parents to pretend as if they do not know anything about the diary.
She also prepared her parents mentally as to how the situation would be once Lisa finds about the missing diary.
She informed them that she could confirm about her diagnosis after seeing Lisa's behaviour that night. She gave her contact number to them and asked them to call her in case of emergency.
It was around 10 pm by the time Lisa reached home after spending the whole day at Sophia's place. Since she was really tired, she decided to write her diary next morning.
At about 4 a.m Lisa woke up, since she could not find her diary her anxiety was increasing and started shouting & throwing things. she had pulled all the clothes out of her wardrobe where she usually kept her diary.
Her parents rushed to her room to calm her down, but she was in a state of panic and did not recognize them. She started throwing things at them and shouted " who are you and what are you doing in my house". After a while she collapsed and fainted.
Her parents were shocked and immediately called Dr.Tanya . She was in fact on her way to Lisa's house along with Sophia. She tried to calm down Lisa's parents with a promise that she would explain the whole situation to them once she reaches their home.

Lisa was still unconscious when Dr.Tanya reached her home . She asked their parents to calm down and to listen patiently to what she had to tell.
Dr.Tanya took out two diaries from her bag. She told it since these diaries were missing, Lisa got worried and behaved strangely. Lisa's parents were fully confused.
Dr.Tanya said that her guess was right about Lisa suffering from Dissociative Identity Disorder.
Dr.Tanya : "according to my diagnosis, Lisa is suffering from this disorder since she was 12 years .
Here you can see two diaries. one is Lisa's personal diary with entries of regular happenings in Lisa's day to day life.
But the second diary is the one which she used to write every night when she used to wake up as a different person and that person is none other than your daughter's best friend Sophia's twin sister Stella!!!, because Lisa and Sophia would discuss about Stella every day since Stella faced a very hard situation in her childhood".
Lisa's dad interrupted and asked whether it was the School party with fashion disaster theme, since almost every day Lisa would talk about it to her parents and would end up crying and feeling really bad for Stella... in those days.
Dr.Tanya continued "Yes sir, you are right. It was after that incident Lisa started to note down about all these in a diary. But as per my assessment I believe Lisa is also not aware of the second diary which she has been writing for the past few years , since it was as her sub-conscious personality "Stella", she would write the diary and not as Lisa.
Every midnight she used to wake up as "Stella" and write the second dairy. The first symptom of this was when she cut her wrist attempting suicide in the midnight".
Lisa's mom recollected the incident. She was shocked to know the truth.

Dr.Tanya said " as I have gathered from Sophia, Lisa used to complain a lot about her headaches in school days after the Stella's incident and she used to also go through many mood swings. All these are symptoms of Dissociative Identity Disorder.
But since it was not diagnosed and treated in childhood it has persisted till today that lead to her strange behaviour at the school reunion party. But do not worry I have the solution for this problem".
Lisa's parents could not believe this at first , but after hearing Dr.Tanya's explanation they reconciled to the fact and were really glad that their daughter's Psychological problem had a solution.
Dr.Tanya asked Sophia to tell Lisa about the happenings of the previous night, because she felt Lisa would be more comfortable to understand and accept the facts, if her best friend explains the truth.