i'd like to thank WanderingVet (or your Little) and the Littles of Precious97, Reed31 and DumpsterDiva for visiting and posting to the DID Littles Group. You are all helping the group come to life again. It's such an important group so this is a really good thing. Will some of the other members of this group please allow / and encourage their Littles to visit the group. And become active there? It seems that Littles c an suffer isolation and loneliness even more than their Bigs. The DID Littles Group mighty help them feel less lonely?

51%, I had no intention of slamming you. That is why I made clarifying statements such as the very first thing, which was, Please don't take this personally because I would feel (key word, feel) this way about anyone saying these things,...and, ..I mean that as a generic statement, not one just pointed at you..., and, (which actually (key word) might not be a bad thing in the long run, anyway).

I did not say I believe that I have real people "running around inside my head". What (my little) said is, that we are REAL. As in, real personalities...which in my experience, is what other people are inferring when they refer to the MPD as being "real" as opposed to being "made up in our heads". In other words, fictional. Or delusional. WHICH WE ARE NOT.
And further, I am not speaking about having different opinions because of their ages. I am speaking about different personalities, even at the same age and even the same gender. Different likes, dislikes, fears, favorites, etc.

And I disagree about control and PTSD, but that is a mute point.

Maybe that was your #1 step in gaining self-control, but I never did think there were little people running around inside my head. That sounds (key word, sounds) to me like perhaps (another key word) it was one of your littles that needed to understand that.

I'm not sure where I wrote that I did not want to get better. That is your assumption. And you know what making an assumption does.
It makes an ASS out of U and ME

Jen, thanks for sharing. I am exactly where you are at and totally agree with you. I totally can relate to you...So I appreciate you sharing... Thanks

Not to get completely esoteric, but I've gone to alternative healers and shamans to work with my MP. Not to "cure" it, not to integrate, but to recognize the strengths and value in it.

This is just my journey and I wouldn't suggest it to others or say it's the "right" path.

What a shaman told me was that yes, these "others" may have been created by trauma, but really they have their own spirit. And we are not so much bodies as we are spirits.

She told me that when I think of the others, not to think of them as an outgrowth of trauma, but that new spirits were welcomed in through a tear in my soul caused by trauma.

I know, it's pretty out there. But it did help me look at the others in a new way. Not a problem to solve but a team to work with. It allowed me to ask them for help and participation in my life and it seems to be working much better for me than seeing them as a "sickness."

I don't say MPD because I don't consider it a disorder any longer. How many people get to see the world through the eyes of so many? That, to me, is a gift.

That's really interesting Reed and I like that perspective. I also like taking "disorder" off the end of MP...there is talk of doing the same thing with PTS "D" because MP, and PTS are not organic disorders like bipolar or schizophrenia, but rather a result of external stimulus affecting someone in a way that causes MP or PTS...

Thanks for the post!