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,...

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Whoaaah...can't do it

KittyTwist
KittyTwist

OK.


I just temporarily joined a DS group, Incest Survivors.


Dude, I don't think I can do it.


Its like, I have enough trouble dealing with my DID, I don't known that I want to actually look at WHY I got DID.


Is that wrong? Or not wrong but, I mean, I have been in *therapy* for years. But not on a long while, and all those years never seemed to help cause they didn't k ow I had DID for so long. And once we did know, I haven't been in therapy much since then.


I want to be the hopeful, optimistic me I am. I don't want to be moping around in the past and suffering. 


Can you deal with your altars and the things that make you switch without actually having to face all the ugly details?


Meh

Dahrien
Dahrien
Im in similar place in my DiD therapy. I have a lot of memory dealing with past traumas, if it's something worse...dont want it...kind of why my brain was merciful enough to me to lock it up wasn't it? Truthfully, not sure what the answer to this is. In my mind though, all you need to do is deal with them, not dwell on them. Talk about it, only to the extent your comfortable, and avoid a lot of intense "remembering".
KittyTwist
KittyTwist
This is exactly why I liked DBT therapy so much!
After I met with my DBT therapist, I would leave feeling like I CAN DO THIS! I CAN TOTALLY DO LIFE!
Whenever I left other therapy sessions I felt stressed, crazy, defensive, shameful, not understood or whatever and just not good about things.
Thanks for sharing that you are in a similar place Dahrien, or whomever of you posted this. It helps!