Shelly:

Hi emptyinside, welcome to PC!

Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry that you can post on this board, but thanks very much for doing so!

I totally get your story and accepting ones multipleness is the stepping stones to treatment and recovery. My voices of the others worked into my "thinking" which in turn is actually a collaboration of sorts where we all discuss, debate, vote, argue,...to us though, it was like just thinking. It wasn't till later that we were able to discern the peculiarities of each individual voice once we came out of voluntary denial. After that, it all fell into place. Co-conscience is such a weird thing.

It wasn't really to recent that we started name tagging our posts for some part of us thought it would be easy to see the differences. In some instances you can, but mostly not. I've found that it makes better sense to anyone reading to know the author first. In our head we all read our own writings mentally out loud, but I read everyone's one day and it just didn't come across individualistic like it suppose too, let alone make sense, soooo....

But your others are very welcome to post their thoughts, too. I've found that it has helped free up some apprehension of coming forward and presenting, but like holding back is one of our short comings, :P

Anyways, glad to meet you and hope to hear more.