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[chipmunk-planet.livejournal.com]

Hello, I just found this group from a Wikipedia article on dissociation. Looks good!

My official diagnosis way back when was DDNOS, but looking at criteria and all I was probably poly-DID (had 120 alts at one time, we're down to 18 they tell me). Married (pretty sure he's DID also, we have interesting conversations), three kids. We're all doing pretty well, thanks.

Look forward to poking around and getting to know everyone.

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[kyouketsusha.livejournal.com]

Welcome! :)

[drleanne.livejournal.com]

Welcome to the group! I'm LeAnne of the SplitAngels (http://www.splitangels.org) system. Hope to see you around lots!

[maryanni.livejournal.com]

Nice to meet you, as well. This is a great place for discussions about all types of experiences involving multiplicity. There's a great amount of diversity of experience and opinion.

Welcome!
-Juliana of WhisperSung

[inner-clique.livejournal.com]

howdy. I'm LeAnne (different than the other one that commented XD) I'm in The Clique and The Clique is in the Kasiya Group. us Cliquers are mostly all teen girls. I guess that's all I have to say XD see you around. LeAnne

[mysticeden.livejournal.com]

Hello!
Whats DDNOS?

[drleanne.livejournal.com]

dissociative disorder not otherwise specified. this term was a fav of docs who ran into co consious multiplicity

[mysticeden.livejournal.com]

oh lol so its a "we don't know what the hell it is soo.... we'll give it a new name!" type thing. It's funny how much they don't know. A lot still don't belive in co consiousness from what we've seen anyway.

[chipmunk-planet.livejournal.com]

I didn't have many who were co-conscious until after I started therapy. A big step was getting people to talk to each other. Once that began happening things got a lot better.

[mysticeden.livejournal.com]

Yeah I think for people with multiplicity steemed from abuse especially, and all those who cant talk to the rest too, thats a big step. My/our life has gotten better since we were able to communicate with each other. But its funny, once a psychologist thought we were lying about being a multiple because we could talk to each other and knew a bit of what the others were doing. 9_9

[random-element.livejournal.com]

Probably been overdone all ready, but welcome to the group, and feel free to look around. I'm poly-DID too, though I was "caught young", or so I've been told. Was your system (hope no one jumps on the I-word...just an innocent question) integrated in part? I know some of my alters naturally merged together, which I didn't expect. Sorry if I'm all ready asking too many questions, lol.

[chipmunk-planet.livejournal.com]

Yes, as you can tell the majority of us have integrated. It's been a positive experience overall.

[kangetsuhime.livejournal.com]

I don't know that people can tell ;) That's why people ask rather than assume. Many systems of reduced numbers have members simpley leave or fade out, rather than integrate, so it's sometimes not initially obvious exactly what a person has experienced.

[chipmunk-planet.livejournal.com]

Forgot to add: most of it has happened 'naturally', I suppose, as most of the treatment I've done has been what you would call 'holistic' or 'alternative'. I did have 18 months of regular therapy and hypnosis, which was at the beginning of all this (right when I was diagnosed back in 1999).