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Originally Posted by loliielena
Firstly I know I need to see a professional about it but I’m very scared. I’m only asking for opinions maybe some guidance. I know you can’t diagnose me.
I’ll try to make this as short as possible. I was sexually abused for over 12 years and my coping mechanism has always been dissociating. And it’s always been a huge part of my life. When something traumatic happens I dissociate. When I can’t handle something I dissociate even with small things but I generally just have a lot of triggers. I thought it might be dissociative amnesia. But I black out on a consistent basis and based on documentaries and research, dissociative amnesia isn’t on a consistent basis DID is? I’ve always known I have some sort of dissociative disorder since I was very young when the abuse started. But I didn’t research it for a long time because I was scared.
I just recently got curious and now I’m like wow....... I could have DID.
I also am childlike in general but I have this other uh....... state of mind I call it. Where I black out and it literally feels like a little girl around 5 years old is taking over my body. And she feels so alone and has no one to talk too. She or I,... I don’t even know how to address her... wants friends but they see me as 22 not 5 and it makes her cry and feel so alone. It’s so confusing. She cries then I snap out of it. And I’m like wtf?
How do I make her not feel alone... she wants to play and be loved.
I black out and don’t remember getting to certain places, saying certain things etc.
Any opinion or advice is appreciated thanks a lot in advance.
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just noticed something that brought up a question ...
you use the term "black outs"... here in the USA having "black outs" disqualifies a person from having DID.
Im wondering if you mean what my location calls "co consciousness". this where a person switches into being an alternate personality but can still know a bit about whats going on.
my point is if you are co conscious with your alters this is a great thing. it means your healing process will be much easier because you wont have to do the therapy stuff to develop the co consciousness. in other words if you are DID being co conscious takes many years off treatment and merging together happens faster.
example i had limited co consciousness with my alter beth and none with my alter Green. beth merged together with me with in a year of therapy where as with green it took over 10 years to happen.
being co conscious I didnt have to guess at what was needed and what to do because that alter could let me know.