You are welcome, Malady peoples.

I don't know the details of the abduction stuff you wrote about, but it does sound as though it would have been very difficult for ANYBODY to cope with that, let alone someone with a dissociative disorder who has prewired reactions to trauma. I hope you find a way for malady peoples to stop beating yourselves up about however you reacted to that. I have no doubt you did the very best you could with the skills and survival strategies available to you at the time... and you are *here*, so however it panned out, it was *good enough*.

The whole 'dealing with situations how we have best dealt with them in the past' thing... I bet it applies to both the big and small things. You know, like situations where we might be triggered emotionally, or the more dangerous situations where we might find ourselves as victims of current abuse. Until we are actively able to teach ourselves new coping strategies, perhaps we naturally default to whatever has helped us survive in the past.

It's okay though... us humans are capable of learning new things at all stages of life. Awareness is good - it gives us a place to start the inner communication ball rolling.

As children us DIDers worked separately inside as a means to survive the things we could not change. Maybe now it's okay to work together inside to change the things we no longer have to simply 'survive'.