I don't have multiples; my ptsd has caused other forms of dissociation. However, while reading this thread something popped out at me. Maybe we should remove the word "just" from the description of ego states. It seems to have a dismissive or diminishing effect and if you looked at it without that word it might not be so painful. Of course you exist, every darn part of you. I would be devastated if i felt any part of my fragmentation didn't exist. It's the integration of these fragments that I am working on in therapy. So, although they are not multiples, they are there and they are parts of me just as much as my fingers and toes!