When this happens to me I pick ONE thing to work on for instance I have DID.

DID affects every area of a persons life be it the waking hours as well as those at night when the person is asleep. If fact one of the problems a person with DID has is that they don't nessesarily need sleep every 12 - 15 hours like a normal person. when the person slips into their mental safe places mentally they get the rest they need so they don't notice that their physical boy has been go go go. and physically when the person is off floating in their mental safe place the body is kept funtioning based on what memorys got trigeered in to replaying. So for example if it isnt the memory of being abused and then going to sleep but the memory of cooking physically the body doesn't get any rest. But that doesn't stop the body from funtioning because the person who was mentally floating becomes mentally aware again of the present time. They find food has been cooked but mentally they are rested and so continue as if nothing happened. Physically the bodys organs, muscles and so on needs that sleep time. With the person mentally not noticing when its time to physically rest when they are aware and the body physically unable to take that rest time when the brain has the body reacting from the past memory content. the body physically crashes because the muscles and so on have reached their performance limit. a person can be walking across the street fully aware feeling great and the next thing they know the person is sitting in the middle of the street with a broken foot. literally.

DID has all kinds of other ways it affects a persons life in every aspect of the persons life. There are literally so many problems going on at once its hard to decide what to work on first. I sort of didn't have a choice what to work on first. I was the one sitting on the street with a broken foot. so that had to be taken care of first of all my problems.After exray and casting and medication was done the next step was get me on a regular sleeping schedule - easier said then done with a person with DID. I dont recognize when I am physically tired and mentally tired I go off to la la land. I had to teach myself NOT to go off to la la land for mental rest breaks, DID's don't have a sense of time. so in order to teach me what being physically tired meant I had to use an alarm clock that told me when it was time to get up and time to sleep. once I had myself on a sleep schedule of getting up at the same time and going to bed at the same time my therapist and I went the next step, and after that the next step.

We basically had to break things down into steps and add things at each step. When something was added the things added before it was habit.

Kind of like learning math. a person doesn't suddenly wake up on day andcharge full steam ahead into doing agerbra and geometry. They first learn what numbers and counting is, then when that is habit they learn adding, when that is habit they learn subracting, when that is habit they learn multiplying when that is habit they learn dividing and so on and so on.

Break one problem down into accomplishable steps and add on from there at the pace you can handle. since problems naturally intersect into other areas of a persons life you will not only see the problem being solves as being more manageable but the rest of your life will also become more managable.