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Posted by terrics on March 4, 2005, at 8:51:46
Can anyone with DID explain how the 'others' first presented themselves? For about 3 months now, and 99% of the time on weekends I 'hear' 2 voices. They are not from outside of me and they are not from within my head. They seem to be a part of me, not another whole person like I think DID would be like. They 'talk' to me. eg. They call my name fairly often. They tell me to do the dishes, etc. One speaks German which is pretty funny because I do not know what he is saying although at one time I understood a moderate amount of German. The other one speaks English and is a female voice. None of this scares me and they do not say anything bad. Oh, and they often say 'everything will be O.K.' Does this make sense to anyone? terrics
Posted by Susan47 on March 4, 2005, at 11:09:42
In reply to How do you perceive? DID, posted by terrics on March 4, 2005, at 8:51:46
Are you comforting yourself do you think, with the voices? They sound helpful, but I don't know if I'd encourage them to continue in this format. Can you make it your own voice? Maybe that's a bad suggestion. I don't know anything about DID.
Posted by alexandra_k on March 4, 2005, at 16:23:43
In reply to How do you perceive? DID, posted by terrics on March 4, 2005, at 8:51:46
Lots of people hear voices for lots of different reasons...
And different diagnoses aren't really so much black and white categories as existing on a continuum with normal functioning.
>None of this scares me and they do not say anything bad. Oh, and they often say 'everything will be O.K.'
Sounds like they are fairly good company and helpful to you. It doesn't sound like they are distressing or harmful so they aren't really problematic. Do you have a therapist you could talk to about them? It sounds like they haven't been around all that long (in the grand scheme of things). Maybe a medication would make them go away or maybe not. But maybe they will go away anyway when you have need of them no longer.
Posted by Daisym on March 4, 2005, at 21:00:18
In reply to How do you perceive? DID, posted by terrics on March 4, 2005, at 8:51:46
Terrics,
I don't have DID. But I've found that there are age states completely frozen and encapsulated. Right now I know of two strong ones, a 6-year old and a 11/12 year old. It freaked me out completely to begin to feel these regressed feelings and to find myself completely taken over. Often I have internal arguments between age states. Not voices, but thoughts that belong to someone else.
In therapy, we've named the younger part (little daisy) and we talk about "her" and "me" and "us" etc. It makes me a little crazy but it works for now.
I hesitated for a long time to admit this to my therapist but he pulled out little daisy himself and talked to her. Now it is very common for them to communicate directly.
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