My Top 25 Most Frequently Asked Questions
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- Опубліковано 14 чер 2024
- After answering questions on Insta and Tiktok for a couple years, I came up with a list of answers for the most commonly asked. I will link them below so you can go right to the question you have or watch the whole thing.
I want to preface this with: theses are my answers. Other people with D.I.D. will have different experiences and ways they would answer. And also, I have dyslexia. I already caught like 7 spelling errors. If I missed anymore… sigh
Questions About Alters 00:53
1. Where do alters get their names? 01:22
2. Can alters die/fuse/disappear? 02:57
3. What is it like to not be in the front? 04:03
3b. What is it like for Jenna to not be in the front? 04:53
4. What is it like talking with alters? 05:19
5. Who's the original/core/person before we had D.I.D.? 06:25
6. If one alter learns something, does everyone know it? 07:44
7. How come we’re aware of each other? 08:17
Questions About Switching 09:06
8. What does switching feel like? 09:10
8b. Do you feel a switch coming on? 10:10
9. How often do we switch? 11:11
10. Is there control over switching? 11:27
11. How long do switches take? 12:02
12. What does "blendy" feel like? 12:32
Questions About Personal Life 12:57
13. Do you have a job/can you work? 13:02
14. Did all of our alters date our hubs? 13:57
14b. How does being married work? 14:17
15. Does the hubs have a favorite? 14:38
16. How was pregnancy on the male alters? 14:51
17. How do the other alters feel about being a mom? 16:17
Questions About Therapy 16:57
18. What is the diagnosis process like? 17:00
19. What do you do in therapy/does everyone participate? 18:02
20. With therapy will the alters go away/fuse? 18:38
Miscellaneous Questions 19:43
21. What is your favorite media representation? 19:47
22. What do you think about your soul? 20:13
23. Do you have different political/religious views? 20:53
24. I can I best help my friend/partner with D.I.D.? 22:08
25. I think I have D.I.D. Now what? 23:43
Bonus FAQ 25:15
What are your pronouns? 25:19
Do you fee like this is a disorder? 25:49
What is the inner world like? 26:22
What's up with non-human alters? 27:35 Do we have one? 28:33
Will I come speak at your thing? 28:57
Blooper Reel 29:42
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It might be because the headmates that fused were "smaller" but I don't really see my fused alters in myself or my remaining alter at all. In my experience fusing really seems like disappearing (though unfusing is common for us, but always temporary).
Great video, Jenna! We love learning about other systems and their experiences with multiplicity. Thank you all for sharing your experience. 💜
Honestly, this is so very helpful. Got diagnosed with OSDD over the summer, but we had somewhat known for about a year and a half before that that something was definitely off. It doesn’t help that there’s still so little research on dissociative disorders, so it’s so tough to know what it can look like. Hearing your experiences really helps us feel comfortable and validated. It’s especially helping me right now, as I just formed a few days ago and I am not used to this whatsoever. As it is, the host is currently co-conscious helping me write this so I don’t come off sounding like a jerk. Thank you again for what you’re doing here.
-Shadow (from the Erebor System)
We're an unusual DID system. We do have amnesia when we leave front, but barring extremely stressful situations (usually caused by our Tourettes) it's usually the two co-hosts in co-front so there's de facto no amnesia.
i like to see other people's thoughts on what did 'feels' like. i'll never forget when one of my alters explained what a switch felt like and i used it as a way to describe it to friends who knew about my did - she said one of our parts was triggered out, and pushed her out of the front so she completely lost her awareness of that period of time. when she came back, she could almost remember what transpired, but it disappeared when she took the front back from the triggered alter - and right away, she said it felt like she was waking up from a dream and forgetting the dream.
as the host who was fairly unaware of that going on, it helped me notice switches more easily and gave me a new understanding of why it's so frustrating to intrusively switch throughout the day (i call it carouseling when i have multiple switches in a day.) using that rule i was able to figure out how much time i lost between switches though.
Oh such a beautiful expression of it all!
"We didn't know the extent of it, though!"
Oh, the feels! 😄
this soo helpful as someone at the start of my journey. i appreciate the care you show for being accurate with your words.
I just found your content. And Im newly diagnosed with DID. I really appreciate the way you explain and simplify a very complex condition. Thank you for this content.
❤️🫂 it’s hard in the early days. Hang in there. It gets better.
@@GianuSystem thank you.💜 I mentioned your channel to my therapist today. After viewing so many others, I told her your content is what finally pulled it together for me. Im so grateful to have found you. 💜
This was so interesting and informative, thank you for sharing.
Thank you! This is wonderful!
Thank you so much for answering our questions❤
Great Q and you all keep up the good work ❤
Thanks for making this video, Jenna! We’re learning so much from your channel. The calm, quiet backgrounds make us feel safe and at peace in the face of so much online chaos about dissociative disorders, as well as conflict in our personal life.
No worries if you can’t get around to answering this, but do you or any of the other members of your system have any advice on caring for littles? We have one little in particular who concerns us. Our friends from another system say that we’re bad people for not doing more for them, but we frankly don’t know how to reach them (short of bringing them to the front, which tends to be a stressful experience for the rest of us), what we’re supposed to do for them, what caring for them even means, etc. Some of us are super freaked out by the thought of even having kids around. We’re not ready to be parents, but our friends in the other system are pushing us to step up and be parents for these kids that we barely know.
If you have any advice or recommended resources/research materials, that would be greatly appreciated! We’re working on finding a therapist now. :)
If you can’t care for them, is there someone else in your system who can? Littles need help, but it doesn’t have to be from the host.
Thanks for responding! We don’t have any one particular host (there are 60 of us, and about five or so who front publicly), but it seems that some of the littles have particular caretakers within the system. I think there’s a conceptual gap between how communication works in our system vs. our friends’ system. They have an inner world where they can talk to one another, but we don’t.
We’ve been writing notes to one another, recording what we remember from the littles after they’re done fronting, trying to listen to inside voices when we think or talk about the littles, giving hugs, and trying to have more snacks on hand for them. A lot of the littles actually seem self-sufficient in a way because they know and like that we’re in an adult body, and our amnesiac barriers are usually low enough that most people can get their bearings when they front.
Thank you for sharing
Yes, it is. Dreams have been very helpful for me in figuring things out.
I'm so happy to see the outtakes because I do the same things while trying to record. Mine are often peppered with a ton of F 💣, though. Thank you!
When JA’s filming, there’s a lot more profanity. 😂
It's funny that you say your light will no longer be split up when you die. We don't believe in the afterlife but if we did we think a kind god would let us exist separately in the afterlife, or at least as separate as two singlets. We'd probably still hang out though.
Some of your experiences are similar to ours. - Diamond (Phoenix System)
Heya, I just had a quick question. Actually, two: how can you tell if you’re actually speaking to another alter or just talking to yourself and convincing yourself it’s someone else (I can’t ever tell since if there are any others, I can’t *hear* them), and how would you suggest bettering communication between alters for confused questioning systems? :)
There are tests a therapist can give that are helpful. For helping communication, I have a UA-cam vid. ^_^
Thank you! So informative! Can you talk about sleep and dreaming with DID?
Great suggestion!
Im sorry, but I don’t know if I understand right, Jen is a different alter than Jenna?
Yep