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,...
In the past, I saw my DID as a disorder or disability or disadvantage. Lately, however, I'm seeing the ability to split as a gift and asset - not only at the time of the trauma but even now.
I went through hell getting to co-consciousness and partially integrating but now that I'm here I find I am far more adaptive and tough than most others. I can put up with more when I have to, push through things, learn new skills faster, have an incredibly wide-range of interests and abilities.
I am not at all discounting the pain or saying I'm glad I went through the trauma that caused my multiplicity. I am saying that the ability to split and the inherent abilities that come with being a multiple are pretty incredible.
I often wonder, if we saw our multiplicity as an asset - and doctors saw it as a positive ability to study - what that would mean.
I have several eyeglass prescriptions, different allergies, varying levels of strength. The body has arthritis but different people inside experience it differently. What does this mean to medicine? Do our brains have the ability to heal ourselves but we haven't tapped into that?
Anyone else ever thought about that?
I went through hell getting to co-consciousness and partially integrating but now that I'm here I find I am far more adaptive and tough than most others. I can put up with more when I have to, push through things, learn new skills faster, have an incredibly wide-range of interests and abilities.
I am not at all discounting the pain or saying I'm glad I went through the trauma that caused my multiplicity. I am saying that the ability to split and the inherent abilities that come with being a multiple are pretty incredible.
I often wonder, if we saw our multiplicity as an asset - and doctors saw it as a positive ability to study - what that would mean.
I have several eyeglass prescriptions, different allergies, varying levels of strength. The body has arthritis but different people inside experience it differently. What does this mean to medicine? Do our brains have the ability to heal ourselves but we haven't tapped into that?
Anyone else ever thought about that?
Lisa
Things we are thankful because of our DID
- our ability to gain 4 university qualification
- our ability to identify with kids, teens, young adults and older people
- our ability to multi task even tho the body/brain is male
- our ability to go on adventures both physically and in our dreams
- our ability to be ambidextrous
- our ability to have a wide range of interests
- our ability to use the strength of several people in any threatening moment
there are plenty of others but we're tired and cant think of anymore right at this moment.
We have to remember that all of the alters/parts are part of the main person and can do nothing that the core person can't do, even if there are differences. If a part is great at art, then the core is great at art. The only reason the others may not be able to do it is that the others have dissociated from it, blocked it.. and when integration truly happens then the whole person will have that ability. not lose it. It is part of the core person's abilities, or potentials, and only needs to be unblocked instead of solely channeled through one alter.