Hello! :)

Hi. We've been lurking on this for a while reading everything (ewwwww creepyyy) but never posted or said anything, some of us are too shy
Felt like I should say hi while i'm here cause SOMEBODY has been on at all of us to post on this for a while (We're worriedguy's girlfriend...some of us)

so yeah, Anna, the host, is 18
then there's me, Summer - i'm 13, and i'm the happy giggly one
there's Blue and Lucy, they're kids, they're boring and they follow me around too much...
there's Jenna, she's 25, she thinks it's her job to keep me under control
Cat, who's 12 - she always comes out for sex and doesnt let me have any
Sorcha, she's 13 or 14, she likes me but she's a cow to the rest of us

there's more i dont know or dont want to think about or havent heard much about of cant remember at all right now...

there was a point to that post, but i've forgotton it so i'll just say hi


Okay, Summer's away, I'm Jenna, she doesnt like me but I know everyone else best

Other than the ones Summer mentioned, there's the less nice ones who arent as happy:
Frances, no age, is blank and thinks very little;
Melanie, who's landed us in hospital for three suicide attempts in the past six weeks, i dont know her at all;
Katherine, she's older than me, doesnt come to the front much - she tries to carry the depression we all feel;
Evie (I think she has an age) - no one knows her very well, she claims she's not even an alter. She spends all her time convincing Anna we're not real.

feeling strange again, so i'll say this quickly:
Does anyone have any ideas how to help Melanie get over herself and stop landing the rest of us in hospital?
Lucy is 8 and really scared of everything. She's retreated inside the past few weeks after coming out when Summer had been drinking and had a slight dispute with our SO...any ideas how to let her know she's safe again? She seemed really cute but had major issues with safety and connecting with anyone...

One other side issue - after recent admission to a psychiatric hospital we were diagnosed with borderline. It goes against all of us to tell people of authority (like doctors, psychs, counsellors...the list goes on) anything about what goes on in our head BUT we are starting treatment with a psychologist next week, how can we come out our shell and talk to them? and then go about convincing them DID is real and that we really have it, etc...
except you dont have it you're just convincing yourself you do....

Okay end of post, going to submit it before we lose the will to do it!

Thanks for listening to/reading our random thoughts, dont know if anyone will remember posting this but oh well!

(dont think there was anything triggery in that...or hope not, suppose the moderator will tell...we dont know what triggers you people, we know that anything, however small, can trigger us but we tend to just let it happen...okay end of post now )

Hello to you my dear

happy to see that you posted after watching the forum
for awhile.

I can not offer you any advice today.
We are in a small crisis mentally and cannot offer help right now.

But surely glad to meet you here on this forum.

Claureshia

dissociative-identity/topic107835.html -This might help with denial.

I'm not yet diagnosed and I still doubt myself a lot, but hopefully everything will work out eventually. :roll:

You need to be completely honest with the therapist's about what you feel and all of that. Otherwise you'll get misdiagnosed and you don't want that.


Good luck and welcome!

Hi Anna. A competent psychologist will believe you, even if you don't believe you. It might help to say your boyfriend figured it out and checked with a DID support group and we all said yup, sounds like you are a multiple. And by the way our track record of spotting other multiples is really, really good.

yay it's anna, anna's here!! hi anna!! i was hoping you'd come here!! i hope you like this place!!

-cassie


We've followed worriedguy's thread and were hoping you would join this place and that it would be a safe, nice place for all of you, and helpful to you as well. So welcome all! We are very glad to have you here!

These threads might be a good type of starting point for you if you're interested:

-- This thread contains DID resource websites along with organized threads from this forum that discuss discovery experiences, wondering if you have DID, common questions, symptoms, all about alters, inner worlds, self-harm issues, conflicts between alters, relationship issues, doubt/denial issues, and much more:
- DDNOS/DID Resources: http://www.psychforums.com/dissociative-identity/topic100829.html


-- This thread focuses more on the "causes" of DID, DID development, system structures, switching/co-consciousness/co-hosting (what they are and can feel like), brushes on doubt/denial issues, and has a couple good threads on communicating/accepting/understanding/working with alters:
- For all who question how they have DID/think their's is odd: http://www.psychforums.com/dissociative-identity/topic104081.html



For starters though, addressing the self-harm issues, this thread might be good for you to start out with:

-- Stopping hurting myself (may be triggering): http://www.psychforums.com/dissociative-identity/topic101170.html



As for trigger warnings, pretty much anything that could be triggering to someone else, *Trigger Warning: examples*, such as s*xual topics, mentions of abuse/violence, fighting/arguing, angry ranting, self-harm topics, etc., *End Trigger Warning*, those deserve trigger warnings. (I think there's something about trigger warnings in one of the locked threads at the top of the forum page, but I'm not sure). Pretty much if it could be triggering to you, and you aren't sure if it's triggering to others, you can always put a "possible trigger warning" just to be safe.

But otherwise, feel free to post anything you're comfortable with here, from questions to rants, and again, welcome!



- Mixture


(Oh, someone wanted to share this with you in case it might be helpful as well. It's our newest system map that we posted not too long ago. Hope it's helpful in some way, if nothing else, in helping you know that you're not alone in your experiences:
-- My System Map 2013 (hope it's helpful to others): http://www.psychforums.com/dissociative-identity/topic107106.html)

Hi & welcome here I'm glad to see you (all) posting. I've been PM'ing a fair bit with your boyfriend, as you know, and I'm so happy that you're able to come on here and get support for yourselves now Best of luck with everything.