ask anything about DID

Yeah, that would suck. How could I beat them up if they were in your body?

 

*history of Japan voice*

Hire a psychic~

Alternatively, you could do a thing like in that one concept video game where you enter people's minds to give them therapy, and it had that experimental peripheral that reads brainwaves and so your tension level causes things in the game to be affected. That was kinda neat.

 

I like the idea of hiring a psychic, let's do that

 

Haven't caught up on the thread, but...I scored 60 on the thing. Though I think some of it is due more to faceblindness and ADHD than dissociation.

 

basically though

 

I just read this whole thread. This is all really interesting!!

I'm late to the party but I scored a 29 on that test thing. I feel like I probably got it wrong, though. Like I'll look at a symptom and be like "yes, that sounds like something that probably happened to me sometime, that seems familiar" but I don't have many specific memories. My memory is, in general, kind of shit, so that might be normal.

I do get these weird physical sensations pretty regularly when trying to sleep, like my internal map of my body gets disconnected from how I feel it. Opening my eyes makes it stop. I've been assuming it has something to do with how sleep paralysis is handled, or something. That's the closest thing to disassociation that happens to me regularly, I think. Sorry if this is the wrong thread for this. I thought it was interesting/relevant because of how the brain handles dreams and sleep and consciousness and stuff and how that seems to be linked!

 

So how do you tell Tumblr-DID from actual DID? Some of the things I would've thought would be indicators apparently aren't and there's gotta be some variance in how people experience DID.

 

generally:
- has a lot of fictives from new media, or factives of brand-new celebrities
- system is made up ENTIRELY of fictives or factives (while it is possible for a system to be made mostly of fictives/factives, it's impossible for it to be entirely fictives or factives.)
- alters don't appear to serve any particular purpose but are merely there because the host wants them to be
- no memory gaps whatsoever appear to exist
- new alters are added as the host finds more characters they like/want in the system
- new alters are added sans any sort of trauma or stress and show up "out of the blue, for no apparent reason"
- "gateway system"
- alters have the ability to leave the system or come back to the system at will

 

What on earth is a gateway system?

 

basically, they claim that their system acts as a gateway, that alters can enter and leave from other worlds and other systems, and that their mind is somehow connected to these other worlds and systems--every other world and system, apparently--via a gateway.

 

Are you telling me these people are multiverse crossover AU-kin

 

yes
that is essentially what I am telling you

 

tfw you find out two of your headmates are dating and you have to wonder just what level of narcissism this puts you on

 

Oh boy

That must be quite a thing

Is that even like... allowed? If you tried to put your foot down as the Arbiter Of The Collective Consciousness would they listen?

(Huh, I typed that without even realizing that your username actually is chaoticArbiter so there you are)

 

hahahahahahahaha
as if anyone listens to me over here
they don't
I could certainly attempt to put my foot down, but no one would care
so I suppose it's going to be allowed
even though it makes me supremely uncomfortable
like
what even
two people my brain created are dating
isn't that like dating myself
ugh
shudders

 

I think it is indeed pretty much like one part of your brain started dating another part of your brain. Or, like, I'm still not sure what parts of the brain are like, "segmented" with DID but it's probably something like one block of personality and trait memory dating another memory block.

Boy... consciousness can get weird sometimes.

I feel like there should be something you should be able to do about this, but I'm not sure what to suggest, especially seeing as iirc you'd decided not to try and integrate/take control of your alters and rather are just sorta letting them be?

 

the thing is, like, even if I wanted to integrate, I can't without agreement of others, and literally none except Dan are on board with that.
I suppose I could integrate Dan, but then we'd just have one less authoritative voice around, and sometimes they actually listen to him.
but like...I mean, each of them are their own fleshed-out personality, it's just they have jobs and things they do for/in the system based on their main personality trait(s). but because my brain created them, it's basically like two parts of me that have taken on life and begun to date each other....? that's the closest I can think to explain it.
it's weird. it creeps me out. I don't like it someone make it stop
this is like, narcissism on a whole new level in my eyes
and of course they don't understand because they view themselves as people in their own right and not part of me, and so they don't understand where I'm coming from and....
ugh

 

I would be very freaked out if anything like that were happening to me... but I suppose you must be used to this style of thing at this point. Still though. *paps*

Edit: How did you find out, by the way? Has this been going on for a while?

 

apparently it's been going on for two months. and they just now opted to tell me. we've been getting better with internal communication, to the point where we can have a few conversations daily, and they used the first one this morning to be like 'hey it's Yang and Neon and btw we're dating' and now I'm. I'm just. aaaaaaaaaaaaaa why. why this.
and honestly....as much as I thought I was getting used to shenanigans and shit, I'm. I'm really not. this has thrown me for a loop, I didn't even consider this as a possibility.

 

Yang and Neon, huh?

Spoiler

Your brain takes its rwby shipping to a whole new unprecedented extreme. /shot

But... yeah. I... don't know what to suggest that might help... I don't know if you know anybody who's more qualified to intercede in weird alter shenanigans if you really want to change this. But, I don't know...

It's strange how your alters do things which are directly contrary to your own intentions and desires sometimes. It's sorta contrary to the usual rule that, even in altered states of consciousness, your brain tends not to do anything that isn't contiguous with your personality on some level. It's like... DID really does instill separate "personalities", or at the very least, maybe your alters represent parts of your overall consciousness that contain personality traits walled off from the you you, or perhaps, that are otherwise overridden by other, stronger desires or traits. Which results in things like, while overall you are utterly opposed to alters dating, two of your alters are now dating. I'm sure some Freudian types would say that this means, that, on some level, a part of you does want your alters to be able to self-date, but I'm not too sure, the personality segmentation thing seems... somewhat more likely? I wonder though, does that mean that your "main" consciousness only represents a part of your full personality, the rest of which is locked away in the alters?

(Sorry for the speculation, tell me to stop if this is too personal or intrusive to be wondering about...)