Introduction

I'm Katie. I'm a monster. In a good way.
My host (and we don't usually use the labels host and alter, but it seems like it will be easier to use the generally accepted terms here), Zu, has had DID for the vast majority of her life. I've only been around for about 15 years, 12 or so as a fully formed person. I'm a psychologist (irony of ironies, right?) and I'm a performance artist. I share the body with three others, one of whom we're fairly certain split off from me. It's taken years and years of therapy and soul searching to find and make peace.
We've never really sought out people with DID before. It never seemed important, I guess. But now we live with another system, and one that's not as, I guess healthy, as ours. And that's what finally got to me. We need peer support, and no amount of denial and acting like the big tough monster is going to change that.
I hope we can become a part of your community.

Hello to all of you and welcome to the forum.

Welcome tot he forums!

Hi Katie! How are you a monster in a good way? Is it like the monters from the movie monters? Lol.

Very interesting that you're a psychologist. Do any of your clients trigger you? If so, how do you handle it? Seems like it would be hard. I've wondered sometimes if my T has DID. I asked once but she said no. I suppose she wouldn't tell me if she was.

Have you ever treated anyone with DID? What better T to help you with that? One who's gone through, and is dealing with her own. I think it's cool.

Welcome to the forums, it's nice to meet you. There are a lot of nice and interesting people here, I think you'll like it. Hey, go check out my party, it's pretty cool. It's called, "i'm throwing a party, let's have some fun." I think you might enjoy the atmosphere.

Firelamb

Welcome to the forum. I am a support person of a man with DID.

When you say you now live with another system that is not as healthy as your own, do you mean a subsystem?

Hi, welcome

I'm Andrea, or An, or Annie. I'll field the questions 'cause Katie's taking a sabbatical, or something.

firelamb67:
She's a monster 'cause she started out as a guardian/animal sort of thing and grew from there.
She's never had a patient really trigger her. She's pretty tough.
She doesn't specialize in dissociation (not that she's not very well educated an experienced with the subject), she specializes in personality disorders, but we're all working with a DID patient in an unofficial capacity. Which brings me to...

Patience:
No, she meant another system external to our own, another... Body, I guess? She told me the other night that being put here, in this situation, had made her believe in a higher power. Which is pretty cool I guess. Everyone has spiritual experiences differently!

And to all the warm welcomes, thank you! It's very good that a place like this exists.

For reference, the other system is my wife. She's definitely not ready to be here yet.

"The Girls" have been a huge help through all of the epilepsy issues and now this.

A bit late, maybe, but even so I wanted to welcome you to the site.
Welcome all of you, glad to have you here.

Late as well I've been reading as always, but life sometimes gets in the way of me posting as much as I would like. Welcome to the forums , if you ever have any questions or concerns feel free to PM me or any of the other moderators.