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,...
I would like to start off this post by saying that I as well as my husband are Agnostic.We have never believed in anything spiritual in any sense of the word.Be it with organized religions or metaphysical beliefs.We are completely analytical and skeptical when it comes to those things.With that having been said this disorder has shown us things that have completely changed our opinions on human nature and how the human brain works.And we have been proven this over and over.
Here are the definitions for Sapping and Zapping.
Sapping means the extraction of physical energy from another
person by the patient. It is a physical process, not an
emotional one. The sapper is an alter who feels too weak to exist by herself alone, so she proceeds to utilize energy from those around her. (The female pronoun will be used for patients, since 85% of my patients were female.This is not to say that men cannot accomplish the same actions.)
My experience with sapping has happened on numerous occasions.Many of my alters that have felt to weak to come out have used energy from my husband when they were reliving their memories to accomplish that. I know this to be true because after they have emerged and told their stories to my husband on many occasions he has been completely drained afterwards.Sometimes to the point to where he can barely keep his eyes open he is so tired. He has told me he will gladly suffer this if it helps my alters in any way.
The other intrapsychic process these patients may use is called
zapping. This word comes from the comic book hero drawn with
his index finger pointing at the villain, while a lightning
bolt shoots from his finger. ZAP is written in bold print on
the background. Zapping is the opposite of sapping, in
direction, and may be used in conjunction with sapping. It is the
injection of a psychic force into the victim, which can cause as
much harm to the mental apparatus as any bullet or arrow can to
the physical apparatus.
This has happened to me and my husband on many occasions as well.One notable time being 7 years ago I was unknowingly being assaulted by an abuser from my teenage years.He had found me in adulthood and again manipulated me in to situations where he could assault me. At this exact time my husband had a heart attack and it is our believe that this heart attack was caused by my alters subconscious anger being injected in to him.We know this to be true because this anger from other alters throughout the time since I discovered I have MPD/DID has cause my husband chest pain on many occasions.
My husband can also tell when I switch and not only by the obvious vocal or manneristic cues.I don't have to say a word or move and he can tell I have switched.He says his eyes blur just like mine do and he will ask me if someone else is there and he is always right.He will also have feelings such as anger,sadness or hopelessness for no apparent reason and he will ask me if someone is there that feels that way and he is always right.The only times where he has been a little off is when we are co-conscious and there is a blur between who we are.
I also have problems with electronic gadgets.My watches never keep time(my aunt also has this problem) and any POS touchscreen gadgets such a credit card POS's or the touchscreen at DVD rental kiosks always malfunction on me.I know that these touchscreens operate on the premises of electromagnetic pulses so I assume when I switch these different alters with varying degrees of electric energy in my body cause these malfunctions in these gadgets.
Here's a link to Sapping and Zapping if you guys would like to read up on it.The guy is kind of an a&* in his description of his patients doing this to him but at least he does explain what Sapping and Zapping is.I actually discovered this paper well after my husband and I knew of this psychic link.It was a validation to read and know others have experienced it. http://www.dissociation.com/2007/docReader.asp?url=/index/published/SAP%26ZAP.TXT
Here are the definitions for Sapping and Zapping.
Sapping means the extraction of physical energy from another
person by the patient. It is a physical process, not an
emotional one. The sapper is an alter who feels too weak to exist by herself alone, so she proceeds to utilize energy from those around her. (The female pronoun will be used for patients, since 85% of my patients were female.This is not to say that men cannot accomplish the same actions.)
My experience with sapping has happened on numerous occasions.Many of my alters that have felt to weak to come out have used energy from my husband when they were reliving their memories to accomplish that. I know this to be true because after they have emerged and told their stories to my husband on many occasions he has been completely drained afterwards.Sometimes to the point to where he can barely keep his eyes open he is so tired. He has told me he will gladly suffer this if it helps my alters in any way.
The other intrapsychic process these patients may use is called
zapping. This word comes from the comic book hero drawn with
his index finger pointing at the villain, while a lightning
bolt shoots from his finger. ZAP is written in bold print on
the background. Zapping is the opposite of sapping, in
direction, and may be used in conjunction with sapping. It is the
injection of a psychic force into the victim, which can cause as
much harm to the mental apparatus as any bullet or arrow can to
the physical apparatus.
This has happened to me and my husband on many occasions as well.One notable time being 7 years ago I was unknowingly being assaulted by an abuser from my teenage years.He had found me in adulthood and again manipulated me in to situations where he could assault me. At this exact time my husband had a heart attack and it is our believe that this heart attack was caused by my alters subconscious anger being injected in to him.We know this to be true because this anger from other alters throughout the time since I discovered I have MPD/DID has cause my husband chest pain on many occasions.
My husband can also tell when I switch and not only by the obvious vocal or manneristic cues.I don't have to say a word or move and he can tell I have switched.He says his eyes blur just like mine do and he will ask me if someone else is there and he is always right.He will also have feelings such as anger,sadness or hopelessness for no apparent reason and he will ask me if someone is there that feels that way and he is always right.The only times where he has been a little off is when we are co-conscious and there is a blur between who we are.
I also have problems with electronic gadgets.My watches never keep time(my aunt also has this problem) and any POS touchscreen gadgets such a credit card POS's or the touchscreen at DVD rental kiosks always malfunction on me.I know that these touchscreens operate on the premises of electromagnetic pulses so I assume when I switch these different alters with varying degrees of electric energy in my body cause these malfunctions in these gadgets.
Here's a link to Sapping and Zapping if you guys would like to read up on it.The guy is kind of an a&* in his description of his patients doing this to him but at least he does explain what Sapping and Zapping is.I actually discovered this paper well after my husband and I knew of this psychic link.It was a validation to read and know others have experienced it. http://www.dissociation.com/2007/docReader.asp?url=/index/published/SAP%26ZAP.TXT
My dad always stopped watches within a month or so of getting them, and he wasn't DID, so there may be an unrelated inheritable aspect to this as well.
I have no issues with watches... My issues have been with smoke detectors. Probably six or seven times, in three different houses, when I was extremely anxious, the hard-wired smoke detectors have gone off. But make no mistake: they neither stay on steady like for a fire, nor beep rhythmically as if their batteries were low. Nope, they alarm, then stop, and alarm again, irregularly.
The first time it happened I was spending the night at my then fiance's home alone for the first time while he worked an overnight shift. I was afraid to be there alone, and just after midnight was awakened by the alarms going off. I checked the whole house (shaking so I could barely walk) and finding nothing, was only more nervous about why they kept going off. It seemed all I had to do was shoot an angry glance at one and they'd start again, scaring the crap outta me.
After that it happened when I went to water my mother's plants in her brand new house while she was on vacation. I dropped the watering can and scooted home. When Hubby came home, I made him grab the video camera and follow me back there. Sure enough, I touched the door handle and you could hear the things start to go off. We videotaped it for about twenty minutes before they just stopped.
The last time was at our home. We had watched a movie before bed that turned out to be very triggering. I was sure I was going to have flashbacks and nightmares, but instead we were awakened in the middle of the night by the smoke alarms. I started screaming at them hysterically to knock it off, while Hubby insured that we were not in any danger. That last time, I did something different. I had been trying to work with a spirit guide, and so I asked him to please make them stop and not do that again because it only scares me. They did stop, and it has never happened since.
All this was before I found out I was multiple. Perhaps my spirit guide was actually one of my alts, or perhaps not... but anyway, I'm soo glad that it hasn't happened again!
Other oddities include: compasses going nuts. Try to hike when that is happening. ha ha.
Sapping is pretty commonplace.. Zapping... interesting. :)
ZAP.. SAP. OH what fun. Going to look into this, good topic.
~K of DH
We can't wear watches either and tend to kill electronic devices....cellphones and microwaves oh and once our oven. I've also watched a friend have a part come out, get into a horrible rage while standing next to her computer and have the whole thing go up in flames. Literally....
It was terrifying!!