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Originally Posted by SoupDragon
I have never been given a diagnosis - managing to function with T's help and no doctor to date. However I have been having experiences that I wondered whether anyone else can relate to.
Does anyone remember the plastic boxes with 2 eye pieces that you hold up in front of your eyes and then push a lever and a different image pops in front of your eyes?
Welll this is how life is for me sometimes. I will be doing something and suddenly it is like a lever has been pushed and my consciousness changes - it sort of makes me jump and freaks me out for a few seconds, like I have suddenly woken from a doze and don't recognise myself, then I settle down again.
I would be really grateful to hear whether anyone has these sort of experiences (if I have managed to describe them).
Many thanks Soup
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the toy is called a view master and they can still be found in toy departments.
the switching between alters and me and from their thoughts to mine never scared me, probably because I had always been like that. What did scare me somewhat was gong through integration. I went from what I thought was normal (switching, hearing voices, sharing my body with others) to what was abnormal to me (being one whole person, one mind, one thought /point of view - mine, no alters voices, no alters switching)
thankfully my therapist recognized how hard it was for DID people to go from switching from alter to alter, mulitple points of views, mulitple senses, to that of experiencing everything as one whole person. She started a therapeutic group where we could talk about our integrative processes and its problems of going from many to one.
