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Originally Posted by Kayraymultipleme
So, I need advice. We were recently diagnosed with DID, and we also have a diagnosis of BPD. Our therapist told us that he has realized that the symptoms of BPD that we exibit are coming from other alters. We have an alter who was the original and she hasnt been out for 25 years. The body is 25. I am the host, and she thinks she is still a kid. She doesnt know she has aged with me. She knows all the knowledge that I know. She is a watcher in the system. She is to unstable to be out in the world. She still believes it is 1993. Is this valid? I am I going crazy??
Ray
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You asked: "am I going crazy??"... sorry only you and your treatment providers can say whether you are going crazy or not or whether your system makes sense, is logical or in your words valid.
here where I am and with my treatment provider we dont use the term valid or crazy with mental disorders. we have a saying here. everyones system is how ever and what ever they needed it to be to survive the extreme trauma's that resulted in someone to dissociation to the extreme where alters were created. in other words it is what it is, you get what you get and you have the hand that was dealt to you...
also here at psych central no one here can say someone is crazy or not valid or any other unsupportive/ discriminating language. we accept everyone for how ever and what ever they post.
that said I can tell you that I am integrated/ one whole person again. before my alters were integrated just about every one of my alters were the kind that did not evolve or age. they were stuck in what ever their sense of agency was. (sense of agency is a new, since 2013, psych term in relation to DID here in the USA. it means what alters can and cant do, how much control they have and other things too, that your therapist can explain the technical side of this and how sense of agency relates to you and your alters)