Integration is done with a trained T over a long period of time, and it can involve many things.... from psychotherapy, journaling, exploring your base belief system, hypnosis, validation, time with each alter, a life line map, mock confrontations with those that wronged you, to supervised anger management with a tennis racket and a pillow used as the source of your pain, etc.

I was lucky to have found two specialist trained in DID treatment and an out patient program that dealt specifically with DID... I struggled and over came a lot with in the eight straight years I spent in T as an in & out patient and during this time I went from 15 indiviual alters down to just two w/ a few fragments.

I am able to cope better with life now and my emotions are slowly becoming mine to own... this happened as the integration of my alters took place over years of therapy... some of the alters went without me knowing it (I later felt the loss of there presence, pain, issues) while others said their final good byes - my oldest and most wise alter literally died at age 78, but not until she let me know that I was strong enough to care for the little ones.

Living with DID is a very complicated and often stressful time in life for both the patient and their family / friends.