So /mental/, my girlfriend has DID. The thing is, there's a place in her head called Paradise. Her and the other personalities -live- there. Does anyone have anything like this? I'd be interested to hear any stories.

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Anonymous 10/30/14 (Thu) 02:39:43 No.987

So /mental/, my girlfriend has DID. The thing is, there's a place in her head called Paradise. Her and the other personalities -live- there. Does anyone have anything like this? I'd be interested to hear any stories.

Anonymous 10/30/14 (Thu) 03:15:50 No.992

Multiple personalities aren't real. People dissociate and then create things (people/places) in order to avoid working through their problems. It's an incredibly complicated form of denial. In that sense, the disorder is real in that they believe and perpetuate the things they create in place of actually confronting their problems, moving on, or growing.

I used alternate personalities from the time I was 6 until I was 19. It started with imaginary friends that eventually I would "let take control" or pretended to be in order to avoid dealing with or taking responsibility for my actions and emotional responses. At 18, I started understanding that I had created these things and by 19, I felt comfortable enough to "integrate." I had to accept several things about myself that I didn't like, being transgender was a big one. I learned to live in reality instead of inside my head.

Some people can't let go and some of those can learn to live productive lives while keeping the fantasy. I hope your girlfriend is one of those.

Anonymous 10/30/14 (Thu) 03:33:42 No.1000

>>992
My girlfriend keeps a steady job and can take care of herself. She's coping really well.

Even if multiple personalities aren't real, I've made some great friends.

Anonymous 10/30/14 (Thu) 03:43:20 No.1005

I made an alternate personality at age 16 and represented her in a mask that I would wear to represent her to other people. I gave her every personality trait I wish I had. Then I had a mental fight over it, feeling legitimately as though I were arguing with this person who was so unlike me yet a part of my mind.

At 18 I destroyed the mask and vowed to never let her come back.

I was doing well until a month ago when I got really drunk and had a "conversation" with her in my room out loud. I literally sat on the floor talking to myself back and forth and I had convinced myself I wasn't pulling both strings.

Anonymous 10/30/14 (Thu) 04:18:22 No.1016

>>1005
I haven't heard of anything like that. Sorry, anon.

Anonymous 10/30/14 (Thu) 04:20:32 No.1017

>>1016
It was a result of not having any contact with society for about a year. Just kinda developed.

Anonymous 10/30/14 (Thu) 05:18:46 No.1021

>>1017
Has it been in control this path month?

Anonymous 10/30/14 (Thu) 05:28:50 No.1024

>>1021
Yeah. I was in full control for 2 years until that one drunken incident.

Anonymous 10/30/14 (Thu) 05:47:31 No.1026

>>1024
Then therapy wouldn't help.

Anonymous 10/30/14 (Thu) 06:03:45 No.1031

>>1026
I need therapy for a lot of things but that's not one of them.

Anonymous 11/26/14 (Wed) 02:55:05 No.3923

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>>1005
You know in your heart what must be done.

Anonymous 11/26/14 (Wed) 04:54:39 No.3929

>>3923
Give her the dick?

Anonymous 11/26/14 (Wed) 09:01:34 No.3947

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>>987
DID anon here.
I have found mind peace in the years, and i can see the inside of my mind too.

You know, most people have a mind that is very dusty, and only limited to be an archive.
They do not like being bored because they do not like to spend time there, standing up in a dusty room with iron lockers.

I instead made a nice room, put some furniture here and there, a bottle of scotch, two relaxing chairs (who knows, i might need the second one!) and then, of course there is a door.

A door that leads to the rest of the planets i build.
But that's a chaotic world that reflect my personality, always changing, always destroying to then recreate.

He lives there, my second half.

But i don't wanna brag too much, you look like you have a problem.
Tell me about it.

Anonymous 11/26/14 (Wed) 18:57:49 No.3989

>>3929
Exactly.

Anonymous 11/26/14 (Wed) 22:12:01 No.4008

>>987
i think there's something similar for tulpas (wonderland)

Anonymous 11/27/14 (Thu) 16:03:35 No.4056

>>4008
I was wondering when someone would bring tulpamancy up.

Anonymous 11/27/14 (Thu) 16:15:09 No.4057

>>4056
is that a bad thing?

Anonymous 11/27/14 (Thu) 16:40:17 No.4059

>>4057
No.
as a matter of fact, I'm making one.

Anonymous 11/29/14 (Sat) 15:34:30 No.4208

>>4059
seems to be a lot of us on this board