Do we outgrow or outlive our alters and the need to dissociate on such a grand scale as time goes on? A lot of mine are long gone, so it seems, but I still feel not quite myself. I notice I'm having to deal with stress, more and more, and am trying, but am so used to having one of the others deal with it for me. I have two guides, guardians, I really don't know what they are that are with me all the time. They tell me that they aren't alters, they seem to know everything about me, even stuff not yet happening. One says he's my past self. Has anyone else ever heard of anything like this? Curious .