Has anyone achieved complete Integration of all alters?
It seems to be the goal of most DID therapies but some of our 'insiders' don't want to and we see the advantages of letting some remain separate?
We have managed to integrate smaller fragmented parts or ones that maybe came out a couple of times many years ago and have been dormant since anyway.
But some are very distinctly different individuals who have had periods of hosting for several years, have their own identity and nicknames in the outside world too or come out regularly to do what they want as themselves, they have no wish to be integrated.
We have a 'social mask alter' that deals with official appointments/social events and matches the paperwork of the legal identity and the others that tend to come out when home alone...which is most of the time being housebound with ME and arthritis too now.
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