tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145024048120132642.post3337523559692928859..comments2022-10-31T18:06:31.236+10:30Comments on The Road to Understanding Dissociative Identity Disorder and Me!: How does it all work in there?Lonniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12842329189155655665noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145024048120132642.post-66978837744093434462012-11-06T17:38:37.823+10:302012-11-06T17:38:37.823+10:30Thanks you Savannah for your comment. It is great ...Thanks you Savannah for your comment. It is great to hear from you. I am also very pleased that what I have written has helped you. Please feel free to update me on how you are travelling. Sounds like you have quite a challenging journey.Lonniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12842329189155655665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145024048120132642.post-16077431082065181992012-11-05T19:38:23.280+10:302012-11-05T19:38:23.280+10:30Thank you for your post.
I have been using the ex...Thank you for your post.<br /><br />I have been using the exact same analogy for many years to explain to other people what it feels like inside my head. The only difference is that there are only two of us in the car...a man (my genetic sex) and a woman. <br /><br />I have felt like I am two people all my life...but couldn't make sense of it. Part of me identified strongly as a boy...while another part identified as a girl.<br /><br />When I was 22 the girl started to venture out in public. At first I thought I must be a cross dresser...but never related to other cross dressers I met. <br /><br />Then I thought I must be transexual and wanted to transition and live full time as a woman, and actually started taking hormones and seeing surgeons. But then the male fought back.<br /><br />I then went into suppression...denying the female any form of expression...no dressing, no going out in public. That lasted four years...by the end, I was terribly depressed, overweight, very sad and almost bankrupt. <br /><br />The girl then fought back and took control...she restarted the hormones and plans to transition...convincing herself that she could rid herself of the male.<br /><br />The idea that we might have MPD/DID only really occurred to us in the past couple of years...as we believed that to have DID there must be childhood trauma and amnesia...<br /><br />We have recently learnt that childhood trauma is not a necessary pre-requisite and that we can be co-conscious...which is exactly how we identify.<br /><br />There's no denying that we are two distinctly different people in one body...our sexualities are different, our eyes change co our, our voices are different, our interests are totally different. <br /><br />Being able to now have a lable, a framework that we can point to and say..."that's what we are...we aren't alone, we aren't crazy" means so much to us, especially the male.<br /><br />Thank you for your great articles. They have really helped us.Savannahnoreply@blogger.com