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Duckie-Casual Contributor
How do others with DID manage having alters that make poor choices? Especially life affecting ones like minor crimes, substance use and abuse, and violence?
What has helped?
How do you explain it to people around you?
How do you explain it to authority?
In response to: DID, negative impacts and managing the fall out
tymeModerator
Thanks for raising these questions @Duckie- . These are things I honestly haven't thought much about.
I'd be really interested to hear what others say and I'm sure it is not uncommon.
Have you ever spoken to a professional about this?
In response to: Re: DID, negative impacts and managing the fall out
Duckie-Casual Contributor
@tymeI am currently waiting on appointments for these exact issues and unfortunately, government crisis support has been unhelpful assuming I haven't associated rather than addressing the distress that re associating to such issues are causing
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