Multiple Personalities Support Group
Dissociative identity disorder is a diagnosis described as the existence in an individual of two or more distinct identities or personalities, each with its own pattern of perceiving and interacting with the environment. At least two of these personalities are considered to routinely take control of the individual's behavior, and there is also some associated memory loss,...
Hey I was diagnosed with DID over a year ago. Have met a lot of my people (personalities).
I have also been learning about what happened in my childhood & I am sure there is a lot more to learn. I have always had gaps no memory like missing puzzle pieces of my childhood & wanting to have the whole puzzle put together.
Either through my people journaling in their journals or coming out in therapy & talking to my therapist. Little girl age 5yrs. has shared about the S abuse that happened at the hands of our bio D (our father) it’s to hard to call him our father so we call him bio D. Suzie age. 12yrs has shared he S abuse that happened to her & today in therapy I learned through my therapist that someone new had come out no name yet but she is 8 or 9yrs. & she shared some detailed S abuse that was disturbing.
Sorry for the long post but I guess just wondering if anyone can relate in that I feel so... disconnected like all this stuff happened to them not to me. But they are me... and I don’t know what to do with this info.
I feel like maybe I need to connect that this happened to me & have feelings about it? So I can work through it and heal?I guess it’s also hard to believe that this all really happened... I don’t know it’s all really overwhelming and confusing to have no memory of all this. But I know that’s exactly why I have DID is because it was to painful to live through so I split. Anyone have any thoughts?
congratulations on all the work you have done in therapy...it takes a lot of work and courage. Not everyone makes it in therapy or even makes it to therapy or else spends years trying to find the right one.
you appear to already be on the path of healing. Learning to live with our parts and work with them in healthy ways is different for everyone depending on how their 'system' is set up. I think most people in here will agree that loving all our parts and validating them is important.
Some parts may need to be reassigned roles as you live in adulthood because they can me more productive to your well being. Eg. protectors may no longer be needed to push everyone away because some people can become part of your support network and friends.
anyhow , hope you have a good day...and to all your parts...hugs.
Just know a monsoon of triggers and intervention those that will just like to add on will ensue. It has to be a liking of being this way to survive understanding you are in world those in the world unless you make them share can come off negative like the overall protector. It has to be nice words that encourage small talk and the journey it self not really anything profound like a ll the things the alters are learning about one another.....
My psychiatrist does not subscribe to integration which used to be the goal for DID patients. Instead our goal is to learnto accept, appreciate and learn to work together. That approach seemed to be helpful and it quashed a lot of the fear and uncertainty.