Comments on: Non-DID Issues http://www.new-landscape.com/2009/07/non-did-issues/ New York support group for people with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) / Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) Tue, 27 Dec 2011 21:08:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jigsaw Analogy--ellis http://www.new-landscape.com/2009/07/non-did-issues/comment-page-1/#comment-2289 Jigsaw Analogy--ellis Mon, 12 Oct 2009 04:34:08 +0000 http://www.new-landscape.com/?p=560#comment-2289 i feel like the DID complicates other things a lot of the time. with fibro, one of the things that would help is massage, but being able to get massage requires being confident that i won't tweak out while it's happening. so that's a complication, definitely. but there's also the fact that maybe if it were just DID, or just fibro, i could cope. but i did the math, sort of. at least, i think i remember how to figure out probability of stuff. so let's say that with DID, i can function at a basic level 5 days out of 7. and with fibro, i can count on being able to cope 3 days out of 7. neither is really great odds, but they're manageable. i could probably figure out how to do a lot more, if it were just one or the other. but with both things going on, my odds of a day where i can function well enough to do most of the things i need to do are 15/49, which aren't great odds. of course, usually i'm only dealing with one or the other, not both being really challenging at the same time, but it's still definitely a complication. i feel like the DID complicates other things a lot of the time. with fibro, one of the things that would help is massage, but being able to get massage requires being confident that i won’t tweak out while it’s happening. so that’s a complication, definitely.

but there’s also the fact that maybe if it were just DID, or just fibro, i could cope. but i did the math, sort of. at least, i think i remember how to figure out probability of stuff. so let’s say that with DID, i can function at a basic level 5 days out of 7. and with fibro, i can count on being able to cope 3 days out of 7. neither is really great odds, but they’re manageable. i could probably figure out how to do a lot more, if it were just one or the other.

but with both things going on, my odds of a day where i can function well enough to do most of the things i need to do are 15/49, which aren’t great odds.

of course, usually i’m only dealing with one or the other, not both being really challenging at the same time, but it’s still definitely a complication.

]]> By: chariots http://www.new-landscape.com/2009/07/non-did-issues/comment-page-1/#comment-2280 chariots Sat, 03 Oct 2009 17:54:05 +0000 http://www.new-landscape.com/?p=560#comment-2280 One issue for me - is that I have to leave extra "space" for my DID. My internal people need time and space to just be. To be out, to do things they like to do, to be in a safe environment to do so, etc. This means my life already feels full without a bunch of work. And with a bunch of work - it's overloaded. I just shouldn't take on so much, because my people need space. My DID-ness, needs room. .... I just heard one of them pretend to be choking and gagging and saying "ya, we need rooooooommmmm!" At least someone's being upbeat/funny about it I guess. One issue for me – is that I have to leave extra “space” for my DID. My internal people need time and space to just be. To be out, to do things they like to do, to be in a safe environment to do so, etc. This means my life already feels full without a bunch of work. And with a bunch of work – it’s overloaded. I just shouldn’t take on so much, because my people need space. My DID-ness, needs room.

…. I just heard one of them pretend to be choking and gagging and saying “ya, we need rooooooommmmm!” At least someone’s being upbeat/funny about it I guess.

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