"It makes me uncomfortable because I feel like it feeds the disease not the cure."

Just because in your phase you are done with switching does not mean others can not benefit from this. As I stated above, it is known that in therapy, having the alters come out and express themselves freely helps in the recovery. It is known that they do have their own lives and feelings and memories and that they need to be able to feel safe and come out to express those.

"I'm not judging you or saying you aren't entitled to your opinions and to post freely, I'm saying I feel like I can't freely say what troubles me in such threads. I'm talking about feeling shoved out myself if I don't talk about alters as if they are real people."

It should not be about whether or not they are real people but whether or not their feelings and minds are true and real. And they are. They may be a split off from one personality but they are all real minds.

Just because they go by different names and have different ideas and memories don't make them "real". The definition of a person is a human being who possesses certain atributes of character. Who have minds, who think, who has a past present or future, rights, duties... Etc. Now tell me, no matter who is out that we are not a real person? Just because we switch does not mean that I, my body, and my alters are not real. I'm as real, as well as they, as they come. The term real means The state of things as they actually actually exist rather than they appear to be. Sounds like alters are pretty real to me. They don't "appear" to be there but in reality are not. DID is a REAL condition with REAL alters that just split. How can anyone decide what is real or not with someone else? Otherwise we would call them imaginary friends.

" I merely mentioned it here and already you've 'corrected' me. That's what I'm referring to."

I am sorry you feel that I have corrected you but when you post on here you are going to get responses that you don't like or agree too. You ask opinions and you post threads to get feed back and that's what has been given. I have not attacked, nor will I ever, your credibility or your right to be on this thread. I have never asked to have any non DID members removed from this thread and placed in another thread nor have I ever complained of getting responses from alters. Because I am thankful for each and every heart felt response. If it wasn't heartfelt, others would not take the time to read and write back. Even my response here and above are heart felt because I do understand you feeling isolated but remember no one can make us feel a certain way emotionally, we chose whether or not we let those emotions get the best of us.

"The point of therapy was to change that though, not reinforce it. " The point of therapy is to learn to live co consciously for some, the point for others is to obtain information, the point for others is like you say to change that thought and the point for others is to learn to have better control. We are all in different phases of our recovery. And we all have different goals and reasons for therapy. The point of YOUR therapy may have been to change that thought however the point of my therapy was to become co conscious and allow myself to switch more willingly. To listen more to my alters and such. We are all in it for different reasons. Please be kind to remember that because you're not the only one who hurts from these things. I know many people who hurt from being called "not real" only because they are a split personality.

I'm sorry if I offended either one of you, I assure you it was not my intention. Sometimes I speak strongly and it's taken the wrong way. I just am trying to explain the other side of this debate if that's what it's turned into.