I’m on a roll with posts today, so I’m going to keep going.
To those who have already interacted with my post on amnesia thank you so much for the information and suggestions, I really appreciate it. But I do have another question for you guys.
When you switch, what does it look like? For me I start to find it really difficult to focus on anything when I switch out. I go into a dissociative catatonic state where I’m processing everything but I can’t move anything -not my eyes, not my fingers- unless I am fighting very hard. Once I get to that point no one can break me out of it but myself and I don’t usually try very hard because I’ll only come back for a minute or two before dissociating again.
But when I switch back in, it’s totally different. I am fully functional the entire time and it can really hard to notice unless I realize I’m acting different.
It maybe important to state that I don’t typically lose control or consciousness when I’m not in the front. I am still very much there, my personality and everything about me is gone. But I still retain my memories. It’s basically PDID but I try not to use that term because I live in the states and it isn’t recognized here.
I just wanted to know if anyone experiences something similar when it comes to such a big functional difference between switching in and out.
Thanks in advance.
-Apollo still
Glad I could help 😊-Apollo
One of the most validating things you can do as a system is try to act like one of your alters, you will very quickly realize you can’t, because it’s just not you. So whenever you need a validation boost, turn on a camera so you can look back on it, and then pick one of your alters and pretend to be them for a few minutes. It’ll look stiff and awkward and not quite right. Because it’s not them.
This tip has been from Apollo. Goodnight people’s
Hi! Just wanted to let you know you're doing awesome and I'm proud of you!
Thank you so much. 😊 we appreciate you!
So these tags were on my post about amnesia. And I want to address it. Short answer, no you do not. You need blackout amnesia (assuming that’s what you meant by full amnesia) in order to have DID.
DID is not the only way to have a system, OSDD 1-b has very little or no amnesia and still has alters, so does p-DID.
Though I do want to differentiate between the different types of amnesia.
Emotional amnesia: where you don’t remember any emotions that you were feeling during the event.
Greyouts: when you remember what happened but have no memories of it, as if someone told you about the event but you weren’t there.
Blackouts: when you don’t remember anything about what happened, and you often don’t remember that you missed something.
I’d also like to mention that amnesia often doesn’t happen in the moment, often the memory will fade over a short period of time until they’re gone. At least that’s what I experience.
Anyways, here you are @sprites-your-cal
Hope this helped
-Apollo
It is so fricken annoying when you are the only alter who has good posture, and because of all the time shrimping it hurts your back to sit/stand straight.
-Loki
Here’s a video of me from this morning when I went nonverbal, I’m using ASL (American sign language) to the best of my ability to talk about why you should learn sign. It’s a great tool for nonverbal, neurodivergent, HOH, deaf, and other individuals to communicate. If you can decipher what I’m saying congrats, I know it’s not super neat or grammatically correct, I’m still learning.
(NV stands for nonverbal)
Ha ha, doctor’s appointment in the morning to see if I have a chronic disease. Let’s see how this goes.
-Apollo
I can’t tell if I want to change my name because I hate my old one, if I’m questions my gender again, or if there’s a new alter who needs a name.
-Apollo (for now)
People in my head go brrr
-Nick (my boyfriend who stole my phone)
That moment when you (a guy) realize your boyfriend is gay :O
-Apollo
[Box 1: Text: This system doesn't like being referred to as parts.
Box 2 Text: This system is asking you to stop calling us parts please.]
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