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[ghostwalker.livejournal.com]

Thanks to everyone for the responses to my last post.

Here's a question i meant to ask in that last post, but it slipped my mind. i may have even asked it here before, forever ago, but i can't recall.

Anyone here both DID (or MPD, if you prefer) and a Multiple (as in born/natural multiple)?

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[plaidwater.livejournal.com]

Well, me an' the Vs and Blanket-Man were here from as long as memory is. An ... I split into Angela an' me an' the Vs split off and one of them went to live where Blanket-Man does an' Bad Nasty Person came in and then Angela split into Angie and Lenore.

~Akyas

[pengke.livejournal.com]

You are confused.

You are treating DID as though it means a system that formed in conjunction to trauma and that's not what it means. DID is simply the psychological definition. It has nothing to do with origins. The symptoms in the DSM are mainly that of a system that does not have adequate communication and cooperation.

A person with DID will always be multiple. It's just not every multiple has DID. You can't separate it between DID and natural multiples either. Some systems that believe they were formed from trauma work well together. Some systems that have no trauma in their history are completely disordered and live in chaos.

[ghostwalker.livejournal.com]

[judiff]

we don't think in those terms but we are prolly a natural multiple system that was shaped and made more seperate by truama which is what i think you are asking.

[ghostwalker.livejournal.com]

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

Again, having MPD or DID refers to difficulties with communication / cooperation, not with whether you suffered trauma in childhood or any other time. Some natural multiples can't communicate worth a damn (we know two natural systems who have so little communication they have to leave notes for each other). Some multiples are abused because they are multiple and thus behave differently. This is what happened to the famous Eve; also, possibly, to the lady who wrote Magic Daughter. This can deeply affect a system and how it organizes and defines itself, but that's not DID or MPD. Read pengke's post again, they have the best short description.

[judiff]

i know what the words mean - that is why i said made more seperate by trauma.

[judiff]

we do the frozen "nobody home" kind of dissosation sometimes too. But less now than in the past becos we've worked on it lots by ourselves and in therapy

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I accidentally responded to your comment instead of the original poster.

[judiff]

o, that makes more sense now - sorry for being like "disgruntled" at you

[iamshadow.livejournal.com]

Jane Phillips wrote The Magic Daughter.

I can recommend it as one of my favourites. Mainly because it's not so much focussed on trauma as day to day living as a system.