Can Alters Have Alters?

-- Parts can have parts?: http://www.psychforums.com/dissociative-identity/topic111231.html




- cassie (age ?)

Una+ wrote:Yes. The term for this is polyfragmentation. Numerous contributors here on the DID Forum have reported their system is polyfragmented, and there are many threads here about it.

PolyAnna know
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Hi PolyAnna.

Why are you sad? There's nothing wrong with being the way you are

Thinking of you.


Cassie: Was that link for me? I'm asking because it didn't answer my question but I wasn't sure if it was to answer me or to write to the original poster

the link was meant for the original poster

i didn't see your question at first, sorry

yes, polyfragmented means systems that have 100 or more alters


Polyfragmented DID: Most systems have a few alters, but those systems that are poly fragmented have 100 or more alters. [4] "In general, the complexity of dissociative symptoms appears to be consistent with the severity of early tramatization." [63] Such large systems are often broken into subsystems as a method of self-preservation and organization of trauma memories. The alters in one subsystem often do not know of the alters in other subsystems.

taken from here: http://www.dissociative-identity-disorder.org/terminology-2.html




- cassie (age ?)

Yeah I wasn't sure.

But then what is it that Una+ means? I'm confused

Thanks

i would imagine it could be possible for there to be polyfragmentation going on, in the sense of alters having alters/parts having parts, without a system being truly polyfragmented in the sense of having 100+ alters. maybe. i don't know for sure.




- cassie (age ?)

Ok thanks. I will keep looking

A LoT Of The OtHeR AlTeRs HaVe AlTeRs ToO. ThIs Is GeTtInG CoNfUsInG. AnD I ThInK I'M GoInG To HaVe To BeCoMe HoSt AgAiN. SuCk. I HaTe It, BecAuSe ThE BodY Is FeMaLe.

Sorry there's a bit of an overwhelm for your system JuDe.

lifelongthing wrote:But then what is it that Una+ means?

The original descriptions of polyfragmented systems were of systems that had "nested" internal fragmentation: alters of alters. Naturally, polyfragmentation often (but not always) results in very high numbers of alters. Some authors writing for a general readership simplify the description of polyfragmentation by mentioning only the very high number of alters, skipping the details that are the actual defining characteristic of polyfragmentation.