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I know DID can be frightening but we are more afraid of the unknown. Learning about DID can help.

Personally I believe it helps to see DID as a condition we can learn to live with rather than an illness or a disorder.

Medication doesn't do anything for DID but an antidepressant can resolve some of the anxiety and depression connected with it.

Agreeing to keep a journal that alters can write in may help with memory difficulties.

Something to realise is that you are probably not a person with alters but an alter yourself.

You may be made up of alters - one fractured personality presenting itself like separate personalities.

Now for the good news, recovery is possible but many Dissociatives believe that would be like cutting off their right arm as they have - whether they know it or not - come to rely on their alter friends. Many, myself included, have chosen to accept the condition and learn how to get along with and co-operate with all our parts.

I have a lot more information on being Dissociative but what works for me may not work for you. I expect there are lots of different views on how to cope with this condition right here in this forum.

It’s that old adage, is it a gift or a curse. Many, many people - once they get passed to initial shock of diagnoses - see it as a gift.

Staying calm seems to be quite helpful. Getting too stressed out makes it worse.

Best wishes. Just know that you are not alone in this.