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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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Well one could argue that DID is a special form of crazy, right?
DID is an illogical disorder in that the self can believe all sorts of things. I mean to think that a person has another person or another self living in their mind is pretty special on its own don't you think? And yet us DID folk insist we really do have others and they really are NOT a part of 'me'. Is that any more illogical than believing it is 1993?
What about an alter who believes they are a male (in a female person) or vice versa? Is that any more illogical than believing it is 1993?
What about an alter that believes they are an animal? (I have a couple of them). Which would you say is more crazy - 1993 or "I'm actually a cat"?
What about an alter that is 5 years old in 72 year old body? Crazy? Not crazy? Not sure?
DID is all about self perception and self identity. It is about avoiding the realization that all that horrible stuff happened to ME. So we become a parade of not-me's. I guess what I am trying to say is that pretty much the only limit of possibilities in establishment of not-me's is the limit if human imagination. Alters are just not logical.