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Originally Posted by amandalouise
your question......What do you think?
I think its fantastic that you know so much about your inside family even though you have psychogenic amnesia. me and my alters....
I am an adult woman with 4 children and married to a wonderful woman. I am integrated now but still have dissociative disorders and problem. I had dissociative amnesia (your term psychogenic amnesia) too with my DID. and I knew hardly anything about my system of alters (your word family) until after all my alters integrated. I had about 20 alters but only had limited co consciousness with 2 or three. the rest I had no co consciousness (awareness of their existence and other things too) now that I and my alters are integrated into one whole person again I am everything that they were, including their memories, which means I now know everything that they knew about their selves. but before this very little.
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Thank you for sharing this with me. I had complete amnesia and since last year, I had been integrating like you and I came out of amnesia just last year and so now I understand more about my system that it was in response to trauma, as a survival strategy and dissociation from the pain. Much of the traumatic memories were retrieved and now I am aware of these alters, that really help me. I am so glad that you are integrated and has a wonderful family and life.