I didin't mean to offend, one of the problems of communicating on the net is it's hard to tell tone.
Dr's and such use the term and classification "disorder" I prefer to replace that term with "coping mechanism" but unless the person I'm talking with already knows that, it creates some confusion so at the beginning of discussions about this kind of stuff I go with what people would have normally heard..
Everyone has coming mechanisms. Some people smoke, some people compulsively clean house, some people get deeply involved in religion, some people do drugs, some people read, some people drink, on and on and on. I myself don't understand why MY coping mechanism is a "disorder" to the world when it is harmless. It can be a little confusing to people who don't know about me sometimes, but unlike some of the things mentioned above, it does nothing to harm my health or possibly other people's health.
It was late when I read your post and I've just gotten out of hospital (damaged a vertebra in my back, causing nerve issues in my legs) and I thought I read it to understand that these beings who are in your headspace take on independent behaviour that is not an idea that originated from you. (Something about one changing their appearance to please you and surprising you?) I guess I took that as they are or perhaps have expanded from something you had willfully created to having some sentience of their own.
the disassociative spectrum ranges from everything to that state of road hypnosis you get on a long trip where you miss your exit because you had kind of tuned out and were lost in your thoughts to the being shock from having seen something awful or been in accident all the way up people who are completely unaware of anything and catatonic.
I gather now that the people you are referring to are more like characters you might have created for a book, only they are a part of your every day life function. That is a different state than DID, just some of what read came across as they operate independently of you thinking "character X could have been like this or done that like that" and that made me wonder.
This kind of stuff is different for everyone, part of my initially mentioning it was myself just wondering what variation point you were talking about.
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Date: 2013-11-24 05:19 pm (UTC)Dr's and such use the term and classification "disorder" I prefer to replace that term with "coping mechanism" but unless the person I'm talking with already knows that, it creates some confusion so at the beginning of discussions about this kind of stuff I go with what people would have normally heard..
Everyone has coming mechanisms. Some people smoke, some people compulsively clean house, some people get deeply involved in religion, some people do drugs, some people read, some people drink, on and on and on. I myself don't understand why MY coping mechanism is a "disorder" to the world when it is harmless. It can be a little confusing to people who don't know about me sometimes, but unlike some of the things mentioned above, it does nothing to harm my health or possibly other people's health.
It was late when I read your post and I've just gotten out of hospital (damaged a vertebra in my back, causing nerve issues in my legs) and I thought I read it to understand that these beings who are in your headspace take on independent behaviour that is not an idea that originated from you. (Something about one changing their appearance to please you and surprising you?) I guess I took that as they are or perhaps have expanded from something you had willfully created to having some sentience of their own.
the disassociative spectrum ranges from everything to that state of road hypnosis you get on a long trip where you miss your exit because you had kind of tuned out and were lost in your thoughts to the being shock from having seen something awful or been in accident all the way up people who are completely unaware of anything and catatonic.
I gather now that the people you are referring to are more like characters you might have created for a book, only they are a part of your every day life function. That is a different state than DID, just some of what read came across as they operate independently of you thinking "character X could have been like this or done that like that" and that made me wonder.
This kind of stuff is different for everyone, part of my initially mentioning it was myself just wondering what variation point you were talking about.