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Originally Posted by Betty_Banana
That's the bad thing about online forums,people giving their own thoughts and opinions without really knowing for sure.
That's something I have noticed on other forums,specifically dissociative disorder ones,other members making nearly everything about alters.Any thoughts,moods,impulses,urges,whatever, other members try to convince them it's not normal and is an alter or part of DID or other dissociative disorders.
On some forums you can read where new members are questioning whether they have alters and within a very short time they're discussing their alters and systems.And then they proceed to convince others that they too have alters.
Pretty scary if you ask me
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yes I have seen that quite often a few dissociative forums out there, where they have turned into in my opinion pro disorder site where they reinforce and tell others to post as being their alters or get lost. they have an impossible amount of "alters" listed in their signatures. (bet they don't realize that there is an actual limit of how many alternate personalities a person with DID can have before a person is institutionalized until they are integrated. the brain has a limit to how a persons personality can be divided it, before its impossible to function coherently, physically and mentally, the amount is drastically different than what you see in these pro disorder sites.
on those other sites granted the admins and such cant be everywhere but after so many postings that remain, especially on sites where they do not delete any threads, everyone on those sites know the admins are not really doing their jobs and that BS postings wont get deleted so these pro disorder people know which sites they can get away with forcing others to post as alters instead of getting better.
Ive already sent the admins of those sites messages to let them know the dangers of what they are letting their members do to each other and where it could lead and also some state laws for various states that could affect their sites. I don't hold my breath for any major changes on those sites, so ….
I will be more careful about posting if at all, on those sites and more diligent on private messaging / emailing with those that are actually working toward healing /not dissociating, and actually over coming their problems, those that are on the same treatment plans and healing that I am on. get back to actually taking care of my problems rather than worrying endlessly on the same issue of whether or not this normal part of mine is an alter.