
Aug 06, 2016, 10:31 PM
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Location: spokane
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In the event that anyone is enjoying this thread as much as I have and wondering if they missed anything, there have been one hundred questions asked so far. Here they are:
- Who is your most dominant alter?
- How long ago were you diagnosed with a dissociative disorder?
- How young is your youngest alter?
- Does anyone have a service dog and how does the animal help you cope with DID or other disorders?
- Which alter is your eldest?
- Throughout your life, how often would a "complete stranger" insist that you have a "lost identical twin"...?
- What is the strangest place/ situation that you have "come to" and found your self in?
- How many kids 10 years old and younger in the system ?
- Are you stable in your current day to day life?
- Do you have any opposing political or religious views fighting it out inside you?
- Have you ever had someone come up to you insisting that your child alters/ adult alters, are actually real friends/relatives and then they ask for phone numbers/ pictures/ locations of them?
- What grounding skills work for you and your system?
- Are all your insiders the same gender?
- Do you currently have a T?
- how many are in your system
- How did you find out about your alters and their names?
- How many people in your life know you have parts/alters?
- Out of all the Ts you may have seen, how many do you think were competent (or at least willing to learn) about working with clients with dissociative disorders?
- what is the weirdest thing that is happened when you have not been in control?
- If you are in therapy, how many total years have you been in therapy?
- Do you have a formal diagnosis of a dissociative disorder?
- what is something you and your insiders like to do together?
- what do your teens like to do?
- is your T able to recognize when you switch and who you have switched to in sessions?
- what is the longest you have ever been on ward?
- How old were you / the system when you first learned about dissociation?
- are your insiders mainly calm and collective, or angry
- Have you even taken the SCID-D?
- Do you email/phone with you t in between sessions? If yes, how often?
- Are you compassionate towards the other parts of yourself?
- do you have anything in your system that's not a person?.
- Are you still in the process of figuring out how dissociation affects you?
- Are you able to control whether your alters can come front and or force you to say things if you have a 'main front'person?
- do any of your insiders claim to have mentaal health issues that you yourself don't have?
- Did your T tell you you had dissociation issues, or did you tell your T?
- what is 1 real dislike of your system
- Do you have at least one person in your life you can trust?
- Do you have internal fights about what is calming and if so, what do you do when life is overwhelming to try to cope when nothing is going to make everyone feel better?
- have you recently discovered any more alters?
- Do you 'roll away' from things you are not yet able to know?
- does your system have a name?
- Do you respond differently to meds?
- Do you ever feel your dissociative disorder took entirely too long to be diagnosed?
- How long ago were you diagnosed?
- Do you have a teddy bear for your littles?
- When you feel like a child, what do you see when you look at your physical body?
- Do you like to cook?
- Do you have a part of you that likes to cook?
- Do you like it when you spend ages cooking something you are really looking forward to eating and then someone else eats it for you?
- what do you do to calm down an inside child who is upset?
- have you disclosed to your family of origin about your DID?
- has another insider ever put you in hospital?
- Do you have inside jokes going on in your head that are so funny you bust out laughing during unfunny moments and everyone looks at you weird?
- what does your inside world look like?
- Do you and your parts/alters/bits of self aim to integrate eventually?
- If you have complex PTSD and OSDD-1 or DID do you ever confuse emotional flashbacks with fragments or alters?
- do you feel that some of your insiders/alters/parts are trying to sabotage your therapy or the relationship with your T?
- Do you know any other people in your daily life who have a dissociative disorder?
- Do you believe it is possible for someone with DID to ever recover and lead a happy life?
- What is one trait about any one side / part / alter / aspect of yourself that you admire or like?
- what is 1 thing you wish you could know about your alters which you don't currently know
- Do you like to eat chips?!
- do your littles like drawing?
- Do you have an alter or part or side of you that likes to learn stuff? Any stuff. But a part that thrives on learning.
- when you meet someone for the first time, do you tell them that you have alters, or do you usually wait for them to find out
- Did you ever watch United States of Tara?
- do you have anyone who can speak other languages?
- do you have a hard time remembering what you have done from day to day or week to week?
- how is your day going?
- what is the longest period of time where you have not been in control?
- How do you regain control?
- Do you trance out a lot?
- what has been the most embarrassing place you have switched?
- do your littles take a stuffie or teddy bear or blanket to T to help them feel safe?
- does your system have a protector?, and do they do a good job
- How do you deal with the embarrassment when (or should I say - after) you act out?
- Can you ever feel comfortable?
- do you listen to your alters?
- do your alters seem to have their own preference or style in how they like to dress?
- what do you like about having DID?
- How does the next person deal with menus / eating out/ picking sandwiches in a shop?
- does your family know you have DID?
- many of you talk about playing with and comforting your others, but did you always want to take care of them or did you start out hating them or wanting nothing to do with then
- So, do you find comfort in a dog/cat/horse?
- How frequently do you dissociate / switch / otherwise experience dissociative type symptoms?
- are you happy with your therapist?
- Can you see a time when you will be happy / content?
- have you figured out all your triggers?
- At what age did you realize your feelings and seek help?
- what is something you all have in common
- if you have an angry protector, what is the worst thing they ever did?
- Do you have a part of you who is childlike and seemingly carefree?
- do you have any insiders that share the same name?
- do you ever have dreams where one of your insiders/alters is the main person in the dream? or is the one having the dream?
- If you have been diagnosed, how long did it take your t to figure it out?
- Do you ever worry incessantly about where you're headed in life?
- how has today been for you on the hole?
- Is openness and honesty more important to you than to the non DID'ers in your life?
- Do you have a special talent?
- Do any of you have separate birthdays?
I have answered them all for ourselves and am e-mailing the questions and our answers to T.
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My gummy-bear died. My unicorn ran away. My imaginary friend got kidnapped. The voices in my head aren't talking to me. Oh no, I'm going sane!
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