you do what ever works for you...

some people talk inside, some people write, some people have internal meeting rooms built in to their system of alters, some people buy things for their alters, some people do arts and crafts and their alters communicate through drawings, painting and other crafts ....gosh there are so many different ways people choose to communicate with their alters.

I was unable to for a majority of my alters to communicate with them due to I had limited co consciousness (how much I heard when the alters were talking, how much awareness I had of the alters and of when the alters were in control....)

treatment providers here where I am located do not encourage alters to take control and do not encourage people with DID to encourage their alters to come out or people with DID to switch into their alters because frankly here treatment provider can get arrested, lose their jobs, lose their credentials for encouraging a client to become more dissociating rather than working on grounding and becoming more stable, more focused, more control over their dissociative problems. this is because here encouraging a client to become more dissociative (calling out their alters, encouraging their alters to come out and such things) can cause a client to create false alters for the attention of their treatment providers rather than healing....a treatment provider causing a client to become more dissociatve, create false alters falls under emotional abuse, neglecting a clients well being and other crimes now here in NY.

for this reason my treatment providers and I focused more on my gaining control over my dissociative symptoms, not encouraging dissociation. dont get me wrong the alters took over control still based on what their job, purpose, reason for being was, just like they did all my life. we just didnt encourage them to do it any more than what they were created to do, to be, part of their job, purpose reason for being. my treatment provider told me if they have something to say and its part of their job, purpose, reason for being then they are going to say it regardless of what she and i do anyway, just like they have all my life. thats just part of being DID, some alters have a lot to say and others dont, some are protectors, some handle emotions, some handle specific events\situations\....but they all just do what ever their job, purpose, reason for being is and nothing she and I could do was going to change that. so we just let things happen naturally.