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Originally Posted by rise13eyond
I guess I'll start. Since the page is open and eventually someone is going to have to start typing. Just to get this out there, not all of us actually care. Some of us, mostly myself I guess, are glad to be here even if the situation isn't ideal. I could hope for better, but I know enough about this to know it's a permanent situation. So better get as much out of it as you can. I can't believe I'm spewing out this BS but here it is.
Yeah........Now he's said his bit for some reason and I can get on to what I opened this for. Kinda had this come up because we got a new system member, who conveniently didn't mention his name, Damon. But since that isn't the point I wanted to make I wont say much about him. But it did get me wondering, what about alter jobs? I mean their purposes, whatever. I mean you get new ones, even old ones, they must serve some kind of purpose, but how do you really figure that out? I mean exactly what is a 5 year old supposed to do for you? I mean there are some of us who posses useful traits the rest of us don't. Guts for example, as in being brave, because god knows the kids aren't. It's all......I guess weird, I dunno, I just feel like I should be able to figure these things out more. And I'd REALLY like to know why the monkey Damon now. Sadly I don't think anyone else can figure this out for us, it'll be something we have to do ourselves, but any input would still be nice.
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my dissociative type alters all came with their own sense of agency. (sense of agency is a new diagnostic criteria since 2013, its just a new word for saying that all dissociative type alters have their own jobs, purpose, reason why they were created, how much control they have .... lots of things this new phrase covers)
to find out what each of my alters sense of agency was all my treatment provider and I had to do was to keep a journal documenting when I had my dissociative symptoms, ...
example by keeping a dissociation journal I discovered that when I felt numb, spaced out and disconnected because I was triggered by rain storms, the alter rainy would take control and handle this trigger by getting home, wet clothing changed a warm cup of hot chocolate and a sandwich,
evidence of this is my dissociation symptoms, wet clothing in the clothes hamper, pb&jelly and bread on the counter, empty hot chocolate wrapper and dirty mug on counter.
so now we knew what Rainys sense of agency was... in other words her purpose was to handle the trigger rain storms, get everyone home safe and dry and a snack.
my suggestion maybe you can start keeping a journal documenting times when you all switch and what the triggers are that is making you dissociate (switch) and which alter belongs to which trigger that they handle.