[just2b]

I am very visual. Trying to give T an representation of what I experience. It's very hard to put DID experience into words. And can't really compare it to a movie or tv show. So one thing I was thinking was doing a collage or 3 D model of what internal pictures are...like I sometimes "see" nature scenes or rooms or whatever. Not sure what I mean by 3 d model things but I see it in my head. However I am unsure how to get any of this started. I am already sensing that other parts think it's a joke or a stupid idea or it will never materialize.
So just wanted to see what others thought?

[Gr3tta]

I and my alters draw pictures for my T all the time. I think its a great idea!

[just2b]

I don't know if it's really possible..but suddenly I have this intense need to draw her (T) into this (my) world. That is cool you can draw...I do stick figures...feeling creative!!

[amandalouise]

Originally Posted by just2b

I am very visual. Trying to give T an representation of what I experience. It's very hard to put DID experience into words. And can't really compare it to a movie or tv show. So one thing I was thinking was doing a collage or 3 D model of what internal pictures are...like I sometimes "see" nature scenes or rooms or whatever. Not sure what I mean by 3 d model things but I see it in my head. However I am unsure how to get any of this started. I am already sensing that other parts think it's a joke or a stupid idea or it will never materialize.
So just wanted to see what others thought?

only you know how your DID feels to you so you are the only one that will be able to know what will represent what DID is to you.

for me Dissociation was a lack of feelings, numbness, sinking into the surfaces that i was on. example during abuse as a child i would feel numb spaced out, and a sinking into becoming the mattress in which i laid upon. to represent that I used words...I felt numb spaced out and sunk down until i felt like i was part of the mattress. the same with walls, chairs ...I felt numb, spaced out and felt a sinking into that chair, walls what have you.

when my therapist asked me to represent that intangible terms I gathered items that represented that ( a pair of glasses smeared with vaseline to represent fogginess, oregel to represent numbness, chairs, walls were wood , a mattress is fabric, cotton batting and metal springs, ...) I gathered a piece of wood, fabric cotton batting a metal spring and glued them on to a matting board. and there we have a representation of what dissociation was to me.

someone I know when their treatment provider asked them to explain their DID they printed off their posts and glued them to a cardboard box.

another person I know took a pair of glasses and cooking oil in to their therapist. when their therapist asked what dissociation was like for them they took out the glasses, put them on some tissue and then squirted the vegetable oil on the lenses and handed them to the therapist to look through.

my point it that this only needs to be as hard to do as you want it to be. you know what DID feels like to you so just go with your gut and what ever feels right for you.

a suggestion read your past posts they will most likely have many descriptions of what DID is for you and how you have already know how to explain what your DID is and feels like to you. once you read your posts you will probably know how to best represent this to your therapist.

Im a truly awful artist, so modelling and drawing wouldn't work for me! I have found this video on youtube, which I thought was a brilliant demonstration for singletons of what my life is like. Heres the link - start at 42:00

I haven't shown this to anyone yet, as I haven't actually been diagnosed and feel attention seeking if I tell people this what Im like without the diagnosis first. But if my T ever asked me to represent what was going on inside - this is where I would start.

Hey hi! I started to watch but I just can't watch a 90 minute video ATM, but I saw some part of it.

I thought about this and I really like Amanda's friends idea and take all my posts and make a novel out of it.

My other instant thought would do a people holding hands paper cutout with faces 20-30 long and write who all we become in a day, and snip off one by one with scissors representing triggers or times. For a dramatic flair, some of us would like to set one end on fire...but we know that's impossible.

You are more creative then you think you are....our thoughts are own prison. You'll do fine. Get well!