Time for next mental health awareness post. I have seperate identities personality disorder. What would you like to know about this condition?

@basilfawlty89 Normally the cause is severe childhood trauma.

It affects my daily life in ways such as I experience dissociation and amnesia, there's lot of mind gaps here and there, it can be embarrassing if an alter fronts in public, like in a grocery store for example.

Other things is when alters keeps information from me and I feel things and do things that are projected from an alter , or there's hidden alters or the alters are in conflict with eachother or with someone I know. For example my boyfriend have been in several conflicts with one of the alters.


Having DID. It's exhausting. It can be very intense with several frontings in a day. It creates lot of confusion which creates fear which creates a sense of threat so it doesn't rhyme well with my also CPTSD diagnosis.

I come off as fake or confusing if someone in public notice me switching as it looks made up /unreal or just weird and often creeps people out.

But the absolute worst part with having this disorder, is people who accuse me/us for faking it. They don't understand that each personality is a real person in their reality. They have a consious. They have a personality. An identity. To claim they don't exist hurts as much as claiming someone right in front of you, isn't real. This sets off the entire system as we call it, and can keep us turbulent and unbalanced for days.

For example a friend of mine didn't understand DID at first. So when one of my children alters fronted, as in texting her she just laughed and tried to ignore it completely. This hurt that alter incredibly much. Thankfully my friend was willing to listen to me explaining what happened and how it works. It's not me deciding to act like a child. It is a child.

@Queendragonfly I'm sorry about your childhood, that's awful and no child should go through that.

I'm not too clued up about DID, thank you informing me. I mostly know about my own disorder, bipolar (my brother is) and BPD. I believe the latter also is environmentally at least caused by severe trauma and abuse. And, I know about NPD and ASPD having had the misfortune of seeing someone with it wreck the like of someone with suspected BPD.

It sounds like you've had a lot of struggles, but what I think is inspiring is that you seem to cope well and, while you're new to the site, you come across as a really kind person.

I'm happy you're on our little niche forum 🤗

@basilfawlty89 Thank you for these warm beautiful words. ❤️❤️❤️
So little can impact me so much. 🥹

I'm sorry for all you have went through too I know a little about BPD, it's a really difficult disorder. ❤️

You are a very kind person ❤️