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Default May 06, 2019 at 10:12 AM
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I can relate to so much of this. We tend not to have romantic relationships because they are just too darned triggering. We have had some relationships in the past, but lets just say they weren't good ones.
The friend thing, oh my gosh I can relate to this! Different alters have different friends, and when the wrong friends mix with the wrong alters it just doesn't work for anyone! Like you our current solution is to avoid all of them.

Hands down I would say DID most affects my life in the area of personal relationships. This system is just not stable enough to maintain a personal relationship beyond the level of a simple acquaintance. Maybe one day though...
This too. Relate. Relate. Relate. I get nervous about disclosing what I "do" on this site but I most definitely have different "rooms" of friends and work activities. At the moment, I have left the whole house of rooms. Not really in contact with friends or work activities and totally distracted by medical appointments at this time.

It is like I see the outside world, and they have their impression of who they believe to be me, and I am just here watching all the lightbulbs go off and on in my own mind and heart and guts. I think I am hiding because on the few occasions I've gone out, people seem to react and notice that I am not the bubbly funny energetic me they were expecting to see. And then they ask me if I am OK, or say I look sad. And the irony is...I AM ok. More so than usual. I have just given up wearing costumes for people on their schedule.

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Default May 16, 2019 at 03:56 AM
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DID saved my life. I'd have never lived through childhood. I feel blessed to have the skill to be able to dissociate. Treatment was rough but integration is amazing.
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DID saved my life. I'd have never lived through childhood. I feel blessed to have the skill to be able to dissociate. Treatment was rough but integration is amazing.
Needed to hear this today, sheltiemom2007. My T recently called it a "super power." Not that we want to live there...but just that it is a remarkable survival tool.

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Default May 21, 2019 at 03:55 PM
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I piggyback off sheltiemom2007. My fragments have helped me get through all the tough experiences I had early in my childhood, and throughout my life since then. On the other hand, it has also been very challenging on a day to day basis. Some good, some bad, some blah. Overall, I feel my fragmented state has affected and is still affecting my life in a good way.

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