Does Splitting Stop At A Certain Age?

Unlike the majority of DID cases, Johann wasn't abused as a child. I mean, he was in some ways neglected, and experienced a lot of traumatizing events. Say another traumatic experience happened (I ask out of sincere curiosity and wish nothing of the sort on him), would it cause another split, or do you think the system would be able to deal with it the way it is now because he's an adult?

I apologize if this is a stupid question. ._.

Some people with DID continue to split as adults; others do not. As an adult I have experienced some events that would be expected to be traumatizing but I did not split. I did dissociate a lot of the physical and/or emotional pain of those events, but as far as I know I did not create any new alters. On the other hand, there are many reports of new alters forming in adulthood. Some posters active here now have such new alters.

From Azel: (I feel crazy when I write things from him but am sticking with the 'if you know what you are doing is crazy you yourself aren't crazy' line of defense) Depends. Others are created with the purpose of handling an aspect of life. Some others handle many, some are very speciallized. If a situation comes up which causes the shell personality to retreat, another personality will come forward that is better able to handle the situation at hand. If no one is capable of handling it as they are, there is a chance for another other to be created, especially if the chance of this event becoming a reoccuring event is a highly likely possiblity.

I did not exist until a little over 2 years ago --- according to those inside. I would never know this however if I did not ask them. I don't have memories before I split, but I have the ones they share with me and its similar to having my own. I would not know they were not mine either if those inside did not tell me this is how it is.

I do know that my level 25 alters decide who will be host. Also all my 17 hosts "live" on Level I. When I am replaced, I assume I go to level I to "live".

My split was because we felt our kids needed us, so we had to come home to care for them. No other part could handle coming home to a loveless marriage. I married a huge gorgeous body builder who did not know he was gay. So here we are and I am pretty much emotionless... which is what is needed to live her.

With 262 Alters and 17 have been host, I seem to be able to split easily. I don't think I can do big changes unless someone else takes over as host.

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New Note:

We are trying hard to switch hosts. I can tell when Glenda comes. You know how a body part feels when it does not get enough blood - it gets tingly. My head is like that when Glenda is out. But she always replied to me in the past. This morning she did not. It was those on Level 25.

With all my questions I came to the conclusion we all feel this is what we need, but we need a traumatic event to make it happen.

We are not able to just ... do it.

Wait tylas, are you saying you *want* a traumatic event to occur so you will split and your system will create another part who you are hoping will take over as host?

Not exactly. Glenda has been host many times. She needs to take over as host now. She is the most complete, competent and best of us. I have just realized we need a push to do it. I don't think it will take much, but we need a little zap.

Remember - it's all one brain. We are all one and we are all separate. It's not like I am dying. It's not like Glenda is coming alive. It's just that the best of us to handle things right now - should be the host. Glenda is the one that went to college for the most part. She is also the smartest of us. She was replaced when we went to the OTC to train and quit studies.

I do want her to be host. I do not want another part created. We have enough parts that have been host before - 17 of us.


Events I know of in the past that caused us to change host are things like - Angel spanked our son. She got replaced. Genevieve would not come home to take care of our kids. She got replaced.

I see what you are saying. You don't want to create a new host, you just want to replace the host with another already there. That makes perfect sense. I was just a little shocked when you said all you need is a traumatic event. I would hope there'd be a way that wouldn't involve putting your system through any more shock or trauma.

We have been trying all week and it does not seem there is.

They do say that I just need to drive down and take a glimpse at Mommy Dearest. That is trauma enough!

Tylas, my system is in synch with yours about a host change. If we could switch hosts from me to Jonathan, it would make life so much easier. People who know "me" would find the personality change a bit odd, but he's recently carried out complete interactions with my staff and colleagues at work and they don't seem the wiser. It was always his ability to pass for me but his design has been to support me, not overtake my hostship. But that's what the life needs. So we feel I need to make some colossal blunder or make a suicide attempt (which I'm not about to do to test this theory) for our entire system to push me out of the way. Given our evolution as a system, I'm not sure that's possible anymore, nor does the gatekeeper who does seem to retain ultimate control, if he chooses to exercise it. Jonathan is getting stronger but I still keep accidentally coming back out front, mostly during a lull of some kind.

As for splitting, we're sure it continues in some systems until the need to do so feels gone.