Question

I´m really not trying to offend anyone here. I suffer from dissociation myself, but how to you guys "remember" your screennames and logon, if you have DID?

Gald to see a question here. I have a lot of questions myself.

If these are DID posters posting, then I think it must be the same 'part' that is posting all the time.

Personally, I dont believe memory or consciousness is shared by alters until the person is close to the point in therapy where integration can be accomplished. Once alters are aware of each other and there is a common ground of consciousness/awareness, then I would say its time to work at integration. Its the condition of having unshared expereinces /history and memory and awareness that is at the core of DID.

I appear to be alone on this as far as these forums go, but I just dont get having alters that act out as his or her own separate people once there is a common /shared awareness of them. Not for a long time anyway. Acknowledge them and let them breathe and then get on with integration is what I think. DID is an illness and not a career choice.

I even wonder if it is counterproductive to encourage people to post as alters. That is my own opinion by the way. But I am a person who lived with DID for many years and is now whole and integrated after much hard and painful work. So I think I do have as they call it, 'sking in the game.'

Your question is a good one. How do they all kow and remember thier passowrds etc?

When I was still in therapy I had a really bad day at work and even had to call and speak with my therapist in order to go on. I had just signed on to start my shift and something jsut hit me and I wanted to run and get out of dodge.
To make a long story short my doc convinced me to not give in to my anxiety and to keep on and get to the unit where I worked.

Well. I was a complete case. I got lost on the way to where I was supposed to be. Finally when I got there I didnt know my computer user name or password and had to call my nurse manager to get it. (I worked at a hospital) I dissociated pretty completely after that ended up doing my job sort of on automatic pilot.

***I think everyone dissociates to some extent and it is when it becomes more of a problem than a quick fix then its time a person really needs to get some help with it.

I hope you are doing well yourself. I think asking questions is a really good thing. Trying to understand is a good thing. Take care.

No offence taken - its a good question! I'm on a laptop, and I rely heavily on the website keeping me logged in, or on the function where my laptop automatically remembers my username and password. Without that I am completely lost.

I am definitely not the same me every time I log on. I have a hundred twitter accounts, forum accounts, and anything else online that requires a username and password that I have vague memories of creating but have no idea how to log on again. Much of the time I don't even know which email addresses I used to create the accounts, to ask for password reminders! A good example is my iTunes account - I have to reset that password at least once a month, as it only lets you fail twice before having to reset, and I fail every time I try!

same way I remember anything else in life...by writing it down. here in my location its standard for people to write down things they want to remember. as young as kindergarten they teach children to write down their important information like what their school computer log in accounts are and their accounts passwords. parents too teach their children / teens to write down their log in and password for safe keeping, my point even normal non dissociative people forget things like log ins and passwords\pin numbers/ ....

plus every website that I have registered for sends me an email that says something like...

thanks for registering, your log in is______ your password is ______

if you created this account please click the confirmation link below

________(confirmation link)_______

if you forget your log in and password please use this link

_____(Link to have them email a new password to you)_____

When I get these emails I copy and paste them to my computers confirmations and password folder i created with in my computers documents folder. and print off the email and keep it in a safe place.

my degree of memory loss kind of differs, i'd guess..well..i'm almost at least partly 'here' no matter what degree the dissociation is as i don't have 100% memory loss, though i am not 100% co-conscious either.

but i have the stuff saved anyway for some sites. for other things, things are written down. i don't have the best memory, especially for passwords. i don't have a million accounts for things either, but even though i have just a few, there's no way i'd remember the password for them all anyway.

i changed one of my email passwords at some point and have access to it on several laptops/my phone, but on a new laptop, i cannot figure out what it is or how i figured it out on the devices i have access to that email account...so, i'll have to change it again...i DO remember my email address though lol

A lot of times we dont!

I have the computer remember them for me when I can, and I click on "forgot your password" links a lot too.

I get a lot of emails from websites that i had no idea i was part of.i also have to get reminders of usernames and passwords when i dont know them. It is helpful to have an ipad these days that simply remembers all of these things for us.