welcome.....

Just from my own experience with DID..... I was totally "freaked"... when I got the DX - but that was about 20 some years ago... without the internet... without the experienced therapists that we have today...

I "remained" freaked out... because I had a very lousy therapist... who didn't know how to manage DID... he.. made it sound so "freaky"....

And... it isn't... it really isn't.... once I got myself to a good experienced T... it... was "life is normal".... but... you just happen to have this "thing" called DID.....

And once I let go of the "fear" of DID... life settled down for me...

There are times... when it is very hard....

For instance... when I walked into a matress store... the salesman.. said something alone the lines of "oh.. you changed your mind"... and I said.."I have never been here before"... and he said.." hmm... you looked exactly like a person that was just here"..

well it did turn out that an alter walked in... then didn't buy... and then I walked in.... and wasn't aware.. of the situation..

soooooooooo... I just went with the flow.... bought my matress...and made light of the situation....

after awhile... at least with my job... you just get very good... at covering..

there was a post awhile back... from another DIDer... about that subject...

the one thing that helped me to really be OK... was to see each of my alters as a part of me... so therefore me... to love each and every part of me..also to trust my alters..

once that happened... for the most part... the fear... went away...

if I dwell on it to much.... though... the fear can sometimes temporaryly come back...

just my experiences....