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[themournfulduck.livejournal.com]

I've watched this community for a little while.

I'm pretty much alone in my body except once in a while there's this girl Nadia. I'm not sure she counts because I made her up in eighth grade. But sometimes she seems more real than others.

She helps me out sometimes, figuring out problems. I swear sometimes she comes up with solutions I never would have thought of by myself. And lately I've been having her try to help me stop my nervous habit of gnawing my lips and fingers. It hasn't helped much because she's not present every time I do it and I often don't notice until I'm bleeding.

Anyway, this is an interesting community.

Comments

[browncoatrebel.livejournal.com]

Welcome.

We have some system members we created on our own, too. I don't think that makes them any less real than other members.

--Kate

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

All my others were self-created, mostly quite deliberately. It doesn't make them any less real, I think.

[weirdiguess.livejournal.com]

Seems to be origins don't matter as much as what they are now. Could say all of us in here were 'made up'.

[0semya0.livejournal.com]

Welcome.

It sounds like Nadia is a very supportive/helpful imaginary friend, which is cool. Sometimes people forget that you can have imaginary friends and use your imagination without it becoming "real", if you get what I mean. But I'm obviously not in your head so I can't say positively what or who Nadia is, only you can make the distinction.

[mirrorbrothers.livejournal.com]

Before we found sites like this, we used the term "imaginary friend" for me. What's the difference between an imaginary friend and a non-fronter?

Johnny

[our-menagerie.livejournal.com]

I think only the person who is going through trying to figure things out would know the answer to that. I agree it is a tricky thing. However, I also dont believe that everyone who has an imaginary friend or two is multiple.

Alexis

[mirrorbrothers.livejournal.com]

Ah, well, I guess not. But at least one imaginary friend did turn out to be a multiple. :-)

[weirdiguess.livejournal.com]

One's imaginary and one's not? You got mislabelled. If somebody were really imaginary, then, you know. They'd be imaginary. I think?

[ex-memepr0g.livejournal.com]

Welcome to the community. In our own system, there are some of us who emerged through the creative processes of the group, and others who merely walked in. In other cases, there were those who were always present, but were only 'realised' through the creative process, which made their life-stories more apparent.

[themournfulduck.livejournal.com]

But I notice all other sorts of pain.

But that's not an entirely unlikely possibility, and I will talk to someone, if I can.

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

I think you're on the wrong track. This person did not suggest that she had MPD or dissociated. The way I read her post, she sounded like she was describing an experience which may have some things in common with being non-MPD multiple.

We've got the same habit - have had since we were quite young. It's a kind of over-grooming due to dry skin. It can be related to being a bit nervous, like biting your nails. And plenty of people can go unaware of minor pain for reasons other than psychiatric disorders.

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

A lot of the people on this community are multiple without having either MPD or DID. It's also possible to be multiple and not dissociate. There are some links on the community userinfo page (http://community.livejournal.com/multiplicity/profile) that might be of interest to you to find out more about this.

We understand about being blendy or mooshy or blurring like that, we have been very mooshy lately.

[weirdiguess.livejournal.com]

Hey, wait, not noticing you're biting your nails and stuff means you should definately speak to a counsellor?

The girls here have had stuff like that as a habit since they were little kids. Sure, going "oh crap" 'cause you realised you bit/picked the skin back too far and it's started bleeding isn't great, but it's hardly a big deal.

'sides which, different people just have different pain tolerances. And people can get used to it. Not to mention the fact that that stuff often doesn't hurt 'till you're bleeding pretty bad anyway.

(And hey, do you have a link to where it's classed as a dissociative disorder? I knew dissociative stuff could be a symptom, I didn't think it was a dissociative disorder though.)