picture a nice beautiful house, and a nice beautiful lawn with a couple trees and a flower bed. you own this house. looks good when you first move in there. then a little bit later the lawn grows, you do nothing about mowing it. the trees one day need pruning bur you havent gotten to the lawn yet either. now you have two problems the lawn and the trees. then the flowers need tending to but you havent addressed the lawns issues yet nor the trees issues yet. Now you have three problems to figure out, then the windows need washing, but theres that lawn that needs mowing, trees that need pruning, flowers that need tending, that makes 4 problems, then the paint starts chipping off (5 problems) then chimney needs cleaning out, (6 problems needing to be addressed...)

this goes on and on until you have reached your breaking point and are so overwhelmed you cant even think which problem to address first.. the lawn, tress flowers, paint, windows, chimney, walls, flooring, plumbing, wiring ...

Thats how DID progresses. you start out one whole person. then you go through extreme traumas (problem 1 through perhaps 7-15) and split into how ever many alters you need to survive your childhood.

now you are an adult with alters that only know how to deal with your childhood problems. you havent learned how to cope with the adult world so one by one as the adult problems get the best of you, you dissociate and the alters formed in childhood now have to deal with the adult world problems too.

Slowly but surely each one of those alters formed for dealing with childhood issues reaches their limits of their capabilities / purposes because they are children who's purposes were to deal with your childhood issues.

then one day neither you nor your alters are capable of doing what needs to be done in order for you and the alters to survive. many people with DID reach this point and end up suicidal because they are so overwhelmed with past issues not being dealt with and no coping tools to deal with the present overwhelming issues. it all ends up spiraling out of control until one day you end up gone. if not physically then mentally to where you cant be maintained out patient anymore and have to live out the rest of your life in mental institutes.

here in america there are places to get free mental health services like therapy and many of them deal with all kinds of mental and physical problems.

theres places like I work at which is a crisis intervention center, theres also churches, NAMI is nationwide, any mental health agency in america can direct you to crisis centers and other places that have free services for the homeless and low income. your medical doctor too can point you in the right direction to free mental health care places, therapy and support groups in your area.