DID Question

Someone we know told me last night that they used to have an alter that had so much energy in her that when she'd come out the lights would flicker and that she blew a fuse a couple times when she came out, she said that this alter's energy would connect with the electricity some how. We have never heard of this before so we are wondering if any of you have? This came from someone we feel might be lying about being DID.

Thank you,

Roxy

We dont know if they are telling the truth or not but we are really hard on electrical items. We drain batteries faster then normal and are hard on things electric in general.

Back in the 90s when my large system was in turmoil and acting out we had that problem. Phones would get messed up, even computers. My T at the time did some research and discovered it wasn't uncommon. A fellow DIDer had it much worse than me. It became a running joke.

Now that there are only four alters left plus myself it doesn't seem to happen. So what your friend told you could be very true.

Judy and Company

Me too!

My hubby says I'm "electrically dysfunctional," lol.

It's not that usual and I have heard of this phenomenom many times before.

Welcome to the DID forum!

Thank you for the replies (and the welcome ). I think what makes it hard for us to believe her is that she seems to come up with things after hearing about them. For example, she never mentioned this, and then she read it in an online group a couple nights ago, and just had to tell me that she used to do that. Or whenever she meets a "new" alter of ours (one she didn't know) all the sudden she has a new alter. She also read in an online group that it was possible that the person who thinks they are the core of the system to not be the core, and now she is saying that she is not the core of the system, the one who was born, that she is an alter that took over at a very young age and nobody really knows who the core is (I don't know if I'm making sense). She also found out that our core is integrating and then all the sudden she was blending alters. I don't know, I know other friends of ours have walked away from her do to the abuse she does to us, and I know they are questioning also if she is telling the truth. I'm wondering if she might be a pathological liar and therefore now that she's been saying this for so long if she really believes it? I really just don't know anymore.

Thanks again for the support!

Roxy

I see what you are saying. Trust with such a person can be hard. We don't know her so we can't make any advice to believe her or not. Her story does seem to be one of convience so we are skeptical but trusting her is a choice you have to make. Not an easy choice. We are here for you.

Denise of the clan

That can be so. I don't know about your friend, but I know that this is at least partly true for my BF. The guy I met, the guy I live with is the "public face" of The Core. They're the same, but not.

And that electrical stuff? That doesn't have to be just about DID. I've had some very bizarre electrical phenomenon happen around me before - all the way from flickering lights to an unplugged TV coming on (during a fight) to an apartment that didn't have electricity for three weeks (when I was really suicidal). Weird messages flashing on the microwave timer. All sorts of stuff. It doesn't happen as much as often anymore...

It can be hard to tell when people are being "real" or not. It's possible they don't even know themselves. Maybe it's just that hearing or reading about some idea or process that can trigger the actual event.

Thanks again for the replies. We know that the person you think is the core may not always be the core because that is what happened with another friend of ours. We just find it so hard to believe her because nothing "new" is said from her until somebody else says it, and it's usually things that would get a lot of attention, if that makes sense. We are trying to believe her just incase she is telling the truth but it's hard when we've been hurt so much in the past, you know what I mean?

Thank you, all of you!

Roxy

roxy,

i can see how frustrating this person would be, you do not know when and what to trust as it comes out of her mouth. just a thought, a person who does make up things or say them only after they hear of them somewhere else must be pitifully insecure inside. also, this person may have had an abuser who messed with her mind so much that she was never sure of what was and was not truth. i had abusers who demanded conflicting behaviors from me - at the same time!!!! b****s!!!!! it put me into such painful confusion and insecurity and misery. i did not cope by "copycatting" things. i don't remember much at all except learning to do the impossible on a moments notice while not crying and it was sheer hell. sorry if that is too much info.

i guess i am urging you to seek a balance with her if you can, where you give her the benefit of the doubt unless you are absolutely sure she is lying and then maybe gently confront her - sadly all of us broken people are pretty hard on friendships. it is not that we want to, or mean to be difficult, but we are hurt and "hurt people, hurt people"! i hope you can find your way through the maze!

leslie and the pixies

Thank you, Leslie, for the reply. We all are giving her the benefit of the doubt, because we know what it's like to be called a liar when we're not lying, but we are also trying to protect ourselves so we don't get hurt again and again. Some of our littles have grown so attatched to her and one has witnessed one time when she was physical to one of our other bigs and another time when she said it was one of her alters who was physical with us, and that little does not believe it was another alter of her's, that little said she say her in her eyes not another alter. When we get in an arguement or when she does something she shouldn't be doing to us (such as the physical things she's done) we are told it wasn't her that it was an alter, and then she integrates that alter and when it happens again it's not her it's a different alter. Something is just saying she's not being honest. I don't know. Maybe we are wrong. We know from first hand experience how difficult DID can be and so we continue to give her the benefit of the doubt, and hopefully in the long run we are wrong and she is telling the truth.

Thanks again for the reply.