Personalities..

Hi everyone,

Basically i been having problems where i have been switching to younger ages and i have no memory off switching.. I was sexually abused as a child and when i switch to 9,10,11,12 and 13 years old, i tell people around what happened to me but as its happening again.. Does anyone go through similar or know what i am going through?

Claire..

do you mean something like say you have an alter named green. when green takes over, green tells people that they have been abused and what happened during that abuse?

if so I find that to be amazing..it can happen but very rarely because most if not all children abused to such extremes before the age of 5, that it creates alternate personalities/DID, have been taught/conditioned/programmed to.... not ....tell some even to the extreme that there are alters who's job, purpose, reason for being is to prevent telling at all costs, even punish the host other alters with self injury if the host/other alters tries to tell.

for me it took many many years of therapy and the abusers prosecuted, and locked away plus a lot of deprogramming my alters so that they would be able to talk about the abuse we went through. and even then any time the words were said punishment would follow. I ended up inpatient many times.

if you have an alter who's job, purpose, reason for being is to tell what happened thats amazing and is a good thing because with this alter telling /sharing what happened you wont have to do a lot of repressed memory work, you wont have to do a lot of the years of treatment that others with DID have to do because they dont have any way to find out what happened to them, what triggers/trauma's that cause them into switching into alters. for you it will probably just be a matter of matching up the abuse events this alter talks about with things like grounding and other ways for you to control things like anxiety, depression, strong feelings that you feel which makes you want to dissociate.

my suggestion..honor this alters wish and security in knowing they are now safe and able to tell what happened and move on to the next stages of healing with a mental health treatment provider. it really is a positive step in the right direction, having an alter who is comfortable and feels safe with sharing/telling about the abuse you went through.