Are these Alters? - possible triggers

Sorry, just want to add that you do need to have a DD diagnosed by a professional before jumping to the conclusion yourself. It can be many things as dissociation can be part of many disorders. Deciding yourself that it MUST be DID can be damaging as other things may be being overlooked. Remember that full blown DID is rare though Dissociative disorders are not. Please talk to your therapist about your diagnosis.

Best to you ((((((((((( Rhiannonsmoon )))))))))))

(((Rhia))) if your goal is to merge all of you together with continuity of thoughts, then you may very well achieve that. You might find that somewhere along the continuum is acceptable to all of you...between where you are now, and where you are a singleton once again. (And your goal might change many times along the way! )

Just to correct you...

There are no medications to treat DID. There are medications to treat the anxiety and depression that often go with it. Also some psychologists DO give medication.

Psychotherapy is the best thing for people with DID but it is usually for years not months.

Take care.

(((((Rhiannsmoon)))))
We do have to step in at times with each other but are not always able to do so. That comes with therapy and getting those within to work with one another. We hope that you can find a good T that will help those within to heal with love and acceptance. We do not know what is available where you live but we have learned that our greatest healing has come from those that were willing to accept us with out a title but with safety and sercurity. Safe Gentle hugs from all of us to all of you!

HEllo Pegasus

Yes I am aware of that. I just don't want to go to my doctor and be put away that scares me more than anything. I told my doctor last year about the voices and the things they say. He said that we should wait a while then book some test thing. I got very worried they would lock me away so I never mentioned it again. But a couple of the voices are getting louder.

This was the only place I felt safe discussing it. But I get the feeling now that I am wrong about that. I'll just keep it to myself that is probably the best thing to do. i've done it this long

Psychologists in Australia do not have the authority to prescribe medications. Only Medical Doctors can.

Thankyou Anderson,

I am at a point now where I feel I am disappearing I hear these voices, their discussions their fights, their discussions with me and their "directions" to me on what I should do or not do; Megan is getting meaner and at times really wants to say and do the most unacceptable things which I would never say or do.

I feel that I am a nobody and that the voices may not be real I am confused and scared now that I am really crazy and the voices though I can hear them are not really there. How could that be? I need a long rest I think. I was starting to finally accept that what I hear could possibly be real and that there was treatment to help each one heal.

The approximate age of each one coincides with a rape and serious sexual assault. I had made sense of some of that since reading the information posted. But maybe I have just invented them for some reason? I don't know and maybe I should just leave things as they are and let the voices have their say. I just need a good long rest. I'm confused again now.

Have you been able to find a therapist or start looking for one yet? I hope you can. That's the first step and the best one you can take. When you are validated and help is offered, I'm sure you will see a dramatic difference in how you pervceive what's behind the voices. Please stay safe.

(((((((( Rhiannonsmoon )))))))) You won't be locked up! No! The Doctor would help you, honestly that is what they are there for. Please mention it again and know that they are on your side.

You are very welcome to talk as much as you want here about what you are going through and we support you whole heartedly, my only concern is that you should seek professional help from a mental health professional near you in real life.

Rhiannonsmoon I agree with pegasus diagnosing yourself you can possibly be doing your self great harm.let me tell you about someone who used to live around here. his name was roger. he called in to the crisis center saying he heard voices, knew who those voices belong to and was losing time so he self diagnosed himself with having DID from reading things on line and researching psychology books. two months later we met Roger at his wake and funeral. he didnt have DID. he had a brain tumor which was causing his Dissociative Disordered symptoms. why didnt he take the time to tell his doctors - because like you he was afraid he would be locked up in some mental ward for being crazy. he didnt know that times have changed. the mentally ill are not locked up for every symptom any more.

Rhiannonsmoon please stop self diagnosing. contact your doctors and tell them you think you have DID and would like diagnostic testing. the only time people with mental disorders are locked up in mental wards or hospitals these days is if they are hurting their self or hurting someone else. having the thoughts of self injury, suicide or hurting others is a symptom of many mental disorders so as long as you go in without any cuts, burns or other self injury wounds and are not hurting someone else you wont be locked up.

you will be tested and diagnosed and then treated for whatever the problem is that is causing you to have DID like symptoms. who knows maybe the solution to your problem is a medication for some chemical deficiency or overload in your body or it could be vitamins for anemia or any other vitamin deficiency that may cause these same symptoms.

DID symptoms are the same symptoms that come with all kinds of things. google hearing vioces and you will find schizophrenia, bipolar and lots of medical problems that have this same symptom.

please contact your doctors. dont be one of those people that end up diagnosing their self with a a mental disorder and trying to self treat it and end up dead because it was a medical instead of mental problem

((((((((Pegasus))))))))((((((((calista+12))))))))

Thank you so much for telling me that; I worry that they will see the way I shake & cry, or stand there looking (apparently) as if I'm in another world completely unaware of my surroundings for a period of time which is mostly because I'm listening to the voices and telling them off in my mind. But I am going to see a doc about it, something isn't right and it needs attention..

Again thank you Pegasus

I don't know where you got the idea I was diagnosing myself; I'm not about to do something that I am totally against.

I am going to see a doctor about this, which I actuallly mentioned in the first post; I was merely discussing how I felt and what impact this has on my life and if the impact of the voices in my head

Rhiannon

(((Rhiannonsmoon)))
It is good to come here and to unload. For many of us this is the only place that we can come and talk about what we are feeling and dealing with inside. At times we also have to take each other with a grain of salt. For even though we do have the basics in common we do not live in each other shoes. When I/we read your post those within feel a kinship for even though we do not share all of our names the way you describe what is going on in your life mirroir mine so much. As to the Doctor, we have learned to take each one. One on one for each one you will meet will have their own good and negative points. Just do not forget to breath! When all goes crazy it is when we forget to breath and to trust that help will be there maybe not in the form that we want it but it will be there.
Safe Hugs and thought from all of us to all of you!

(((( (((( (((( ((((Anderson)))) )))) )))) ))))

Thanks to everyone...I have to wait for an appointment to come up to see the psychiatrist who is over 2 hrs away...we may just go the day before and stay in a hotel or something; it would be nice to stay in some really lovely place that way I would be able to manage to convince myself there is a treat if I leave the house

Thanks again...I'm not saying I have DID or any other dissociative issue that is not my place to say and I may for all I or anyone else knows just have imaginary friends...I just don't know and I won't know untill after I've seen the psych, but it feels good that I am doing something about it rather than just putting up with the arguing and fighting that goes on in my head. If it is a tumor which I doubt because I looked up the symptoms, then that willl be dealt with too...

Rhiannon

I'm so glad you got an appointment. Try to make it special since you have to stay over in a hotel. Just relax, be yourself and trust yourself to tell the doctor what is going on with you. Just make sure, when you tell the doc about voices, he understands you clearly. Good luck. Let us know how it goes ok?

Thanks so much Calista+12, I've Pm'd you

We hope things work out for you

(Webber)Erik and all

Rhiannonsmom,
I am sorry this is so distrubing and scarey for you. I have what my therapist called a "splintered personality" we had not done enough work for her to be comfortable with the diagnoses of DID. I do not hear the conversations. I just have people tell me the things that I did and I was either asleep or cannot remember what i was doing.
I have three that I know of, Me, Tiger Lady and the Little Girl. I had seen them in my dreams for years, that is where I would hear them. Tiger Lady is all about blunt brutal honesty. She says there have been too many lies and it has gotten us hurt so NOW is the time to stop it. I know the Little Girl is timid and sits in a room, bare walls, a mattress on the floor, no sheets adn she wears a flannel night gown with tiny pink rose buds on it. She stays cowering in the corner and is terrified of Tiger Lady....or maybe the truth of it all. I wear the face that makes everyone think everythign is ok. I ahndle the drama and the emergencies and caring for others. I keep anyone from seeing inside.
But yesterday was a new one. I had never seen that one. It came with a great painless explosion in my head, follwoed by a brilliant white light that I could see, even when my eyes were closed. I was fully aware, I did not lose time, but I was different. It was a mellow child, the feeling was like sitting on the edge of the creek with you bare feet in the cool water, listening to the birds churping in the trees. It amzed adn terrified me, but that one would not let me keep the fear, it shoved it in a hole adn comvered it up. It would not let me talk...I tried, but could not. But I could see and hear everythign going on around me, but i could feel nothing, not even the pain I feel every minute of everyday...it was all numb.
Know this, you are not alone and we may all be stummbling trying to find our way, but stumbling in the dark is alot less scarey when you are holding the hand of a friend....we are all here.

Much comfort and safe hugs...