((((( Amanda1960 ))))) for us, a very big part of the DID is the denial. Me personally - I don't like to admit that the h3ll on earth I went through as a child could ever happen to any child - much less to me!!! Yes, I would like to think of myself as a mentally strong person with an iron will. So "accepting" that I was "fractured" due to the abuse of others - well it is indeed a tough pill to swallow.

So in the past, I liked to tell myself that the other people in my head were just people I put there and that I had control over them all the time. I tried to tell myself that I WANTED to be the others sometimes- so I was acting like that when I wanted to do it. I wanted nothing more in the world than to just believe that this "type of thing" happened to "others" but I was somehow "stronger" and it did not happen to me.

.... Now that is honesty for you from me to you ....

A trained therapist can give a DX. Trust the expert first.