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Let's talk DID and dissociation

Let's talk DID and dissociation

Hello all

@Former-Member, @Bellarose75, @BraveOne, @Nyx, @Fluttershy1, @Maggie, @Grace20212, @NoOne, @MySunrise, @Unlonely1, @destructive, @Lemonjuice and we are sure there are others who have DID or dissociation disorders but we haven't interacted with them so feel free to add others we missed.

We noticed that there is a lot of threads popping up about DID and decided that maybe having a thread we can all chat on and ask questions and give advice to each other would be good.

We thought we would start off by explaing who we are.

We call ourselves the dragon system.

Host/main/core goes by our username due to guidelines but the rest of us are happy to say our names it also helps people know who's responding.

Here is a list of all of us that we as a working system is aware of.

So I'm going to split it up into 3 groups, littles (0-10), middles (11-17) and bigs (18+).

So my littles are :

Kelly, 4, mute and trauma holder, Eshy, main

Sarah, 6, main

Strudle, 5, wolf shapeshifter, main

Brandon

Bianca

Brittney, 7, the BBB triplets

Sienna, 8, prefers CC

Dana, 4, trauma holder, AP

Leana, 6, trauma holder, AP

Cameron, 8, trauma holder

Kelsey, 5, trauma holder

Uunala, 4, trauma holder, Eshy

Stacey, 10

Tessa, 9, FS Trauma holder

My middles are:

Steph, 15, sporty, gender fluid

Daisy, 13, Artistic

Macey, 12, smart, Eshy

Repunzel, 16/17, Fictive

Elsie, 17, littles helper

Erin, 15, trauma holder, Sh, main

Iris, 11, positive empath, littles caretaker, main

Chloe, 14, littles caretaker, clean freak (possibly ocd)

Mermaid Princess, 15/17, unknown language

Zayella, 15, sad/grief empath, inner world protector

Casey, 13, troublesome, sh

Evie, 15/16, fictive

My bigs are:

Sapphire,18, wolf shapeshifter, system protector, main

Harmony, 30, protector, main

Honey, 19, sexual

Grant, age Slider, 18-25,

Lana, 20, negative empath

Holly, age unknown, demon, system persecutor, is a main but currently locked away

Twilight, age unknown, dragon, gatekeeper

We know not all people with DID have an inner world but we do. Host created inner world as an escape when she was 9 and it has become a major part of our system. For anyone wondering twilights role as gatekeeper is literally that our inner world is surrounded by a brick wall and has a large gate outside that is a giant Forrest and twilight keeps the bad out. Holly came before twilight did so it's probably the only reason she made it in.

We also have C-PTSD, anxiety, depression, social anxiety, and panic disorder. Host is severe asthmatic as well which we suppose makes us all asthmatic.

Anyway hope you like the idea of this thread and we are happy to chat anytime but we do apologize if we don't always answer straight away

Thanks

Harmony/babydragon

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In response to: Let's talk DID and dissociation

Re: Let's talk DID and dissociation

Please keep attending therapy. It sounds like the Psychologist is validating you, so at this stage, that alone is worth attending.

I truly understand the resistance to a diagnosis of DID. My wise Psychotherapist (also a Psychiatrist and Obstetrician so very experienced), told me that she hates to label symptoms with a diagnosis as it so often interfers with therapy due to patient resistance.

This resistance so often is coming from the fear of stigma associated with mental health. When it comes to telling people that you have DID, I think DID is up there as one of the worst!!!

Due to MPD and the myths and misunderstandings around it, this has made being open about DID, until you yourself have accepted, educated and understood that it comes from a place of extreme childhood trauma, you cannot expect others to "get it".

Let's be honest, ten years down the track, I am pinning my symptoms on everything possible. !!!! Of course, confirmed DSM5 Diagnosis is vital for all the obvious reasons but it should not be forced upon a client. You need to travel your own road with accepting DID and effective therapy can take place without a client fully accepting the Disorder.

In response to: Let's talk DID and dissociation

Re: Let's talk DID and dissociation

This is what has happened. I told someone kind of some of what's in my head and now it's not happy. How do I stop this because I can't live with this does anyone know

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