living with DID/ Dissociative Identity Disorder

@mudsum They are even normal from what we have come through.....whatever normal is....

oh I so know this! How are you? Well, do you have an hour and a half?! It's like asking how Telstra is, except companies are at least theoretically united towards a common goal of shareholder profits... we're not united towards anything. hmm maybe more like how is Melbourne? The only answer is f- knows.

not even ice cream

We were given a picture frame a few weeks ago, one with places for lots of photos. Chaos was what happened. One wanted her pressed flower cards, others birthday cards, the lads wanted their motor bikes, the red bus, the...the...this went on for at least a week. It's up, crooked, they are always crooked. Nothing is simple, and everyone has an opinion, even the smallest in the group. Never boring that's for sure. I feel like ice cream now..

@Maggie yep, you made me laugh.

I've been thinking that this is a lot like politics. I don't know if anyone else is interested in politics. Given the current (ie last decade at least) of politics in this country I expect it's healthier not to be, but anyway I am. And one of the things I see is that when particular politicians have a thing they want to get done they can't just go and do it on their own, they need to have the support of their own party and often selected people from other parties in order to make it happen. So they go through a range of complex machinations - sometimes even agreeing to something that they don't believe is good in the short term, in order to get what they think is a longer term gain.

That's like us, right? Except we don't have to just do it over monumentious social or economic changes, we have to do it about getting out of bed in the morning, and having a shower and deciding what clothes to ear and etc.... and then simultaneously more serious things like, 'will we continue existing tomorrow?'

So as f-d up as our politics is, it's shown me that i/we aren't an alien - lol - we're just a microcosm. I also have a tendency to overthink 😉

@-Rayne- Now you made me laugh. This is so true, the politics comparison.I wonder if the overthinking is also part of it, so many different opinions, who will win this one, then on and on we go. Thanks for replying. Have a good day, all of YOU.

Hi @Maggie @mudsum @Former-Member @sketa and anyone else,

I have a question for you. Our new therapist thinks we're losing more time than we realise and wants us to try and document it. Has anyone done this? He suggested a notebook but we couldn't see how that would really work so today we got a phone app that makes a sound every hour, so we can just note that its x:o'clock and we're here, plus whatever things we remember doing in the previous hour. The only problem was that when we were walking around or whatever - not sitting at our desk - we didn't hear the sound. So the gaps we have might just be because of that. Anyway, yes, wondered if anyone else has done this and has a better method?

Plus, how are y'all? It's quiet in this thread...

Hi briar,

I tried to notebook everthing i did for a month to see where i was loosing time bit instead of using a diary or journal i found a journaling app. It was encrypted as that was a concern for me and at the end of each day it would back up to drop box and a copy to my therapist. Its still hard to do and i still had plenty of blanks. It was easier when i asked friends to email me with their encounters with me including dates and time. Just dont be hard on yourself when you realise you have missed a week or two when you thought you had been doing it.