hi London
sorry I'm not much help, I'm not multiple. Hopefully other members will respond to your Q soon
kevin

I have the same problem I lose a lot of time. I don't remember. I don't know what the others do when their out 99% of the time. I do keep a dashcam in my car and cameras in my house. My husband helps a lot. My therapist, he's pretty cool. He let's me bring my ESA dog to sessions.

thanks guys.. and thats a good idea Sway..

heres something that has been helping me a bit

i visualized a wall, and i sorr of said to !y team, if there is information that EVERYONE needs - phone number, name, address, et - put it on. a post it note on the wall. or tack it on, however you want to so it. i think post its are fun.

if i notice myself getting nervous or afraid, i try to be aware of it. if i get really wacky, hopefully i am with someone that can talk me through it and help me remember what upset me. try to have that alter write down whatever scared or upset them and see it on the wall later when i am another me that can objectively see that thing that caused the panic

hey KittyT
I think your internal wall a great idea, for post it notes or as whiteboard or just a wall with a box of crayons :)

thanks K2, you da best!
when i first started using it i had to consciously do it, like all dramatically.
now i think its started to happen more naturally.

i think its importnt, because so many things are personal to a particular alter. no one else might be aware that bologna sandwiches are a really bad idea for a meal, so this way hopefully everyone can access that info!I
(i like bologna, it just popped into my head, so hope i didnt hurt bologna feelings anywhere)

you could never hurt my bologna feelings, I don't have any, I haven't a clue what a bologna is and doubt if I've ever met one. Must be a USofA type thingy?

hey Sway
I like the idea of the cameras, but are they difficult ot set up and co-ordinate the saving of videos? A strange question perhaps, but do you recognise any / all of your Alters when you see them? And what's an ESA dog? What breed is yours?

K2hsharpe,
The cameras are not hard to set up. In the car I'm not sure if the others know their being recorded. But when I pull the card I can tell by the way they drive, the music that's on which ones driving. Same thing with the house. They all watch different things. We have some movies and shows we all like but we all like are own stuff. Esa stands for emotional support animal. It's a certified type of service dog. In order to have one or get your dog registered you have to do it online and pay a fee and then have your mental health professional such as a therapist or doctor write a letter. My therapist wrote me one and now one of my dogs is certified but still working on training. My other dog does pretty well so I'm going to get him certified as well. My therapist thinks it helps some.

Owe and my dogs are Jax who is Chinese shar pai, Kane is shiba Inu and golden retriever and Snoopy is hound mix. Snoopy is certified and Kane will be.

hi Sway
i guess it was a silly Q about you recognising your others, a Non-Multiple's mistake :)

emotional support animals sound a greta idea. I think we have something similar, we call them Companion Animals. They also need training but I really know nothing about them. Is the trainingf long or complex? Your 3 certainly sound exotic breeding. We have 2 dogs, an old lady Blue Heeler who is 15 and an annnoyingly youthful 5 year old Smithfield Heeler

The training depends on what you want your dog to do. Mine comfort me when I'm having problems. Some trading only take a couple weeks I hear if you bored them with a professional but it's really expensive. Where still working on the basics and they know certain commands. Their pretty good in the stores that I know of. Last night was really hard i couldn't lay still in bed the others were talking and arguing and i was just having problems. Kane knew what was wrong and put his body on mine and wined some. It's his way of helping.

I’m not really a professional but I’ll try to tel, you how I kind of know? (Sorry if this doesn’t help)

I am able to recognize my alters and remember what happens so seeing what happens isn’t as hard as me as for some others. My alters come out during the situation. For example, if I need protection or am frightened, I switch to a different alter (I actually have two for protection now and I’m not 100 percent sure of which one comes). I can recognize the switch because I either feel a little dizzy or everything seems out of touch, like I’m not connected to reality.

Again, I’m sorry if this isn’t helpful but this is how I sometimes am able to tell if I’m switching and some of the triggers?

bumping the thread

I pay attention to my accent, what we see is really important inside, and the front most selves. On a personal level, this can be really really difficult to note switches and triggers. For us, it was helpful at first to know what you internalized as basically carbon copies but as them experiencing from some triggered moments had to be understood from some other areas....Only a few are hurt by copiers clones and anyone else can understand to quote a fictive then you are it. I think the best way to understand is to know that when in not performance mood then you all cohabitate to some degree until in certain switches where there was no awareness. It usually takes time and experiences to know all the presentations before you call for made thoughts made feelings.

I still ain't understand made thoughts and feelings all that much, but at any rate some understanding is better than none.