News of Dissociative Identity Disorder Forum

Hi!
It's my first time using a forum in YEARS, so I'm very nervous heh :']

As is stated in the subject, I suspect that I might have DID or OSDD. For the past 3-5 years (I'm not sure) I have read scientific papers and personal blog posts of people already diagnosed. There are periods where I track and journal about my possible indicators of DID/OSDD for days, weeks or even months, and there are ...

Hi! I'm Carrie! I'm the host of The Overlook Hotel System! Our recent headcount is 12! We joined this to make more friends and possibly get advice!

Recently had an assessment with these two psychologists who asked all these hard questions I couldn't answer.

Well, after that was so dissociated walked around in basically a big circle for a while.

I feel as if I've been underwater and am just now resurfacing.

I literally can't beat to look at 'my' other post on here from ages ago because oh man.... I didn't write that!

I just feel like I'm crazy.

But the ...

So we lost a primary member of the K system and it's been a rather surreal experience and not sure how to feel about it. Kate, our negative and self destructive alter has kind of been withdrawing more over the last few weeks and last night in the inner world she had a seizure and "died" in a manner of speaking. We know she likely went dormant but it felt very real. We have also ...

Hi,

This is my first post here, and probably also my first post on a BB forum in at least half a decade. I remember standard practice back then was to make an introduction post of some sort but I was unsure of where to post one. I hope this is alright.

My introduction to the mental health system was in 6th grade, I was 11 years old. I was hospitalized for a few days ...

I wondered if alters exist, should there exist some inner guide telling the true self at any given moment?

I found something like that in my OSDD case, and it is sometimes telling one alter to front, sometimes other alter, but focuses on one or two alters most of the time.

Trigger warning: Nighttime abuse? (I'm not sure of what the specific warning should be, nothing explicit is mentioned-- I just know it is a very heavy topic and could be triggering)

Hello,

If it's okay, I would like to paste here something that one of us wrote last night (I don't know who, as we have very little in-system awareness or communication at this time).

Here it is:

There are those of us who live ...

Is this possible? I always see people talking about having very distinct alters as if that's synonymous with having overt DID, but all of our main parts are very different. Obviously we have some overlapping interests/behaviors/etc, but they're all very complex and fairly different from me in a lot of ways save from some fragments.

I would definitely say we're very covert as most people in our life have not noticed it, even the few ...

My system and I are looking to strengthen ourselves with coping skills. My alters come to the front but I never loose consciousness. I currently know common coping skills for myself however my alters want to be armed with coping skills at their disposal. We are looking for skills that can be enacted internally or without my participation such as imagery. Please let us know what helps your system! I'd even like to hear of ...

Wanted to start a thread for us to track and share some general experiences as we really start to begin our journey with communication and healing together. We only recently are getting to the point that we're somewhat able to communicate and are aware of most (?) alters.

Obviously we will be cautious and won't share a lot of private details, especially about individual parts. They are free to share their stories here if they ...