Could this be the end of my disorder?

I have reached something very promising with my dissociative mind.

Toni and Tiana dissociative states is now alternatively fronting depending on our internal organization and external circumstances respectively. Remaining 8 dissociative states are merely affecting decisions and are organized in group of 3 and 5 extending Toni and Tiana respectively.

I think dissociation is not going to stop, I have combined what I could thus some of us are combination of previously dissociative parts. I think this is my maximum, and I now have sense of ownership of my life, so perhaps this could be the end of my disorder despite still dissociating.

It sounds like you have all reached an arrangement you are happy with for daily functioning, if that works for you and your life thats great. We all have very different lives and issues to cope with so if you found whats works best for you thats great!

Cooperation is not the end of the disorder, but it's a huge step in therapy and it helps a tremendous lot in the daily life!

Congratulations on this huge and important stage!

Also: it might be your maximum now, but the more you work together with your parts/alters, the farther you can go

You have reached "functional multiplicity " some of us (this system included) believe there is no need to push beyond FM. If full integration happens it will do so naturally but it is not necessary.

Others believe that FM is only a half way house and you arnt better until you are fully intergrated and therefore "cured".

Its up to you which you belive in.

Eliseahorse wrote:You have reached "functional multiplicity "

No. This stage is cooperation. "Functional multiplicity" is when all the alters are integrated but not fused and all the traumas are healed. It is also called "resolution".

Have a look at the ISSTD Guidelines and The Haunted Self. Or read >> this article (fr->en translation) << to better undestand the difference between cooperation and functional multiplicity.

There is a lot of misinformation out there calling "functional multiplicity" the stage of cooperation. This is due to phobia about therapy, phobia of integration/fusion and inner phobia between the parts/alters.

I also think it is just cooperation, while functional multiplicity in case of my disorder would be when connections between all my states become natural thus seamless switch between deciding by each state like it is all one whole. Events that caused creation of those states have been resolved.