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Originally Posted by amandalouise
no hurt feelings. knowing stuff about the alters is called co consciousness. some people have lots of it others only have a little bit.
example I heard voices all my life , and I knew there was a couple others but for me it was just normal. I didnt think anything of it until after I was diagnosed with DID.
it was during therapy that I learned what some of my alters names and what they did for me. but sometimes i had limited co consciousness. I could be like a back seat driver when one of my alters were in control
A lot of people you see posting have been in therapy for years on and off. not everyone is at the same stage in having DID. Im fully integrated so Im able to use my alters names, memories and such.
when people say they took a walk with their alters it isnt like waling with your best friend. some people have rapid switching from one alter to another and some co consciousness so the alters share back and forth whats going on.
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Thank you all for sharing your insights and expereinces on this.
It is the co-consciousness thing I have the most difficulty understanding. If you are fully integrated then do you no longer dissociate? Are all your alters assimilated into one stable personality? Am I correct in understanding you know about your alters and their names --but you no longer dissociate to the point of actually being here as an alter. You dont talk about or acknowledge the alters as being separate from you since you are integrated?
That is my understadning of integration, and after years of therapy, that is the point I hope I am at, although I cannot really know for sure. I am hoping time will prove this to be correct.
thank you so much for talking /sharing about this