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Originally Posted by zoiecat
I am new to the discovery of possible others within me. I've been in therapy for a couple months now starting EMDR and have started hearing a few voices. Does I guess always been I mean voice but recently it helped her voices come out a few times and then there's the little girl voice which kind of seems more like a presence rather than a voice. I told my therapist and he was very open to the concept he said it makes perfect sense and told me it was dissociative identity disorder. I told him I didn't have that and he said okay well there's a broad spectrum. I'm just very confused and not totally convinced so I'm just wondering how did you discover you had others and how did you start relating to them.
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I learned I had dissociative type alters when i was in college my first year and one of the psych courses requirements for those that intended on pursuing a career in the mental health field, was to undergo psychiatric evaluations and enter treatment based on the psych evaluation, this assignment was to show students what it was like to be in treatment while at the same time receiving the training of being a treatment provider. My testing results showed I had DID.
maybe a little more information will help you....
dissociation is a broad area where it happens in normal, medical and mental health problems. what makes it a disorder is its severity and whether it meets the diagnostic criteria.. every country has its own standard of what is and isnt a mental disorder and what the defining issues are for that mental disorder. you will find links at the bottom of my post. these links are for the DSM 5 (my locations mental disorders and diagnostics) to find out what your location goes by contact your treatment provider.
the fact that you are now starting to hear your voices more clearly that shows great progress, it may not ......feel.....like it. but it shows you have come a long way if your alters are now able to communicate with you. this makes the healing process much shorter and easier then say someone who has no awareness that their alters are there and no co consciousness abilities. now that you can hear your alters you can all work together to help each other to feel better and fix your problems. we have a saying here where I am two heads are better than one. which means things are easier and better if you have more than one person helping out. now that you have your alters talking with you/ you can hear them they will be able to let you know all kinds of things like what trauma's caused you to become DID, what they and you need to better care for you and your alters. even your daily life will improve now that you can hear their voices because you can listen to what they say and get things accomplished.
congrats on your progress and keep up the good work, keep following what ever your treatment provider and you are doing together.