Anybody else switching many times a day?

I have just begun on my own with no help from anyone, journaling. It is fun to see the different parts of me, and amazingly different handwriting. Each of us 'check in' and comment. There is a lot of us.

moonlightmagic wrote:Any hope for me or my kind of DID persons? How I could get more control of switching ~ taking turns of who is out and when, I have heard it is possible. How to please everyone? How to make it work? I have few books about did and working with alters but I feel like they don't go so deep within that topic.

Yes, there's definitely hope. I think, in fact, that as long as you keep working on it, successful cooperation is inevitable. My adopted son switches many, probably dozens of times each day. But most alters don't actually want to stay out for hours, they just want to interact with me because I'm safe (especially the littles) and spend a few moments or minutes in the body, more if there's a project or TV show someone's focused on. They used to switch a lot before they moved here. It sounded chaotic though was getting better.

Except among hosts, my system hasn't been switching much for quite a while and it's actually become a problem I'm trying to solve in therapy and via journaling. Cooperative switching among alters isn't necessarily a problem for a person with DID.

Communication of some kind needs to be happen. Even if there's no direct communication, like co-consciousness, writing notes to one another can let each other know what each of you wants and create agreement about key things in making everyone secure, such as an income. One or more alters need to commit to establishing and nourishing communication.