Hello again. I have had your post on my mind since first reading it. I even posted a couple replies. I admit this matter really hits home to me. I have a lot of feelings as well as opinions about this. Being a survivor myself. Now recovered, now integrated, self aware and self identifying. I was diagnosed very late in life and with so much time being/seeing life and living life in peices (alters/ others /functions) therapy was even more tortuous.

I have come to beleive that it is very important to be able to catch this and diagnose and treat this early on. The more time spent living in reaction, living without a full awareness and recognition of a sense of self and a sense of being connected to a past and part of a continuing life expereince, the harder it is for the patient to recover from.

*** I find is very hopeful that your daughters condition has been recognised at a young age, and that it is being dealt with by someone who understands DID. I find it very hopeful that you have a therapist who recognises what is going on with your daughter, and that you also want to help and work with this.

It is even more hopeful to me that your daughter's personalities have come out and that both her doc and you are aware of them and can inteact with them.

Each of these personalities are connected to that trauma that initiated your daughter's DID condition, and being able to have them available to connect to provides access to what happened and what your daughter has been dealing with in her own internal unconscious fashion. To be able to connect with each of them and hold fast both to the needed discipline of 'house rules' while still allowing each to express her'self' is an amazing opportunity for your daughter to get grounded in where and what she comes from and in the end who she is.

I wish you all the very best in this journey you are taking together. The human brain is an incredible thing. As someone who lived with DID for many years of my life and who was diagnosed very late, it is really good to know that this has been caught at a young age when , in many ways, your daughter has her whole life ahead of her.