[RozG]

Hi everybody

My friends are really supportive about my D.I.D. but just talking about it, thinking about it, reading stuff freaks me out and sometimes triggers it.

Is this normal? And if so how do you all deal with it?

[Monty_girl]

I think it's normal. It's all hard to take in. But it does get easier. It just takes some time to get used to the diagnose. I just have to remember that this is the way that I survived.

[RozG]

Thank you, I'm glad to know you think it's normal

welcome.....

Just from my own experience with DID..... I was totally "freaked"... when I got the DX - but that was about 20 some years ago... without the internet... without the experienced therapists that we have today...

I "remained" freaked out... because I had a very lousy therapist... who didn't know how to manage DID... he.. made it sound so "freaky"....

And... it isn't... it really isn't.... once I got myself to a good experienced T... it... was "life is normal".... but... you just happen to have this "thing" called DID.....

And once I let go of the "fear" of DID... life settled down for me...

There are times... when it is very hard....

For instance... when I walked into a matress store... the salesman.. said something alone the lines of "oh.. you changed your mind"... and I said.."I have never been here before"... and he said.." hmm... you looked exactly like a person that was just here"..

well it did turn out that an alter walked in... then didn't buy... and then I walked in.... and wasn't aware.. of the situation..

soooooooooo... I just went with the flow.... bought my matress...and made light of the situation....

after awhile... at least with my job... you just get very good... at covering..

there was a post awhile back... from another DIDer... about that subject...

the one thing that helped me to really be OK... was to see each of my alters as a part of me... so therefore me... to love each and every part of me..also to trust my alters..

once that happened... for the most part... the fear... went away...

if I dwell on it to much.... though... the fear can sometimes temporaryly come back...

just my experiences....

[wanttoheal]

Hi Kalamity_Jane Welcome to PC.
Just remember that you are not any different now than you were before the diagnosis. You just know what it's called now. For me, I just denied it. But unfortunately the diagnosis didn't go away by denying it lol. Hang in there. It will get better.

[RozG]

Thank you for sharing your experiences, it's very helpful. All I ever hear from my doc is what can be done in the U.S. that can't be done in the U.K. No good to me but this site is because of all you wonderfully supportive people.

Thank you.

[RozG]

lol you're a smart one. Inever thought of it that way before, about being the same "person" as before the diagnosis.

Thank you