Opening Pandora's box?

Hi all!
I'm Lily, I am the host probably of a not too big system.
This is my first time trying to come out of the shell about this, I recently talked about this with my three life companions (girlfriend and best friends), one of them has DID as well.
I am pretty new to all of this, the whole system is, for a long time I tried to live in denial and this brought to several misdiagnoses during the years. Now, I am learning to be less diligent and controlling and I am letting my system be, a bit more (although we are still very covert) allowing my alters to be themselves around the people I trust the most.

The more I am learning not to be a control freak when it comes to my alters, the fewer headaches I have (I used to suffer from bad headaches and migraines NON-STOP, literally they have been never-ending for years), now it's three days that I am headache-free! It's nice to feel my alters as happy. However, the more I "let myself relax" the more I dissociate and the more I discover. In a few days I "discovered" two other people, alters that now I know and that it feels like I knew forever but still had no idea they were there. Is anyone else felt this way? Did any of you met new alters the more you "accepted" your condition?

I am still doing baby steps, still struggling with the idea that I am imagining everything, as I know a lot of people struggle with at the beginning. It's nice to feel like there is a place where I can talk about this and ask questions.

Opening pandora's box,

good places to start here!

I came here because I moved to a new town and so far no one or place to hang out with others like us. the best place is online gives you a safe place yet learning more of what it is like being who we are.

so Hi from all of us unitywithin!

Oh hi!

This is Millie! It's a gigantic pleasure to meet you all! I am co-conscious with Lily for the first time, as she is still learning about us and trying not to freak out too much every time one of us ""manifests"" in her life.

We just moved too! In a new country (actually, back to the country we are from after 5 years abroad) and everything is a bit new and CoVid is not actually making it easy to socialise! Let alone talk about the system at all.

It would be nice (for some of us at least heh) to make friends with people that know what it feels like!