Lived Experience Forum

[Former-Member]

Hey y'all, we have a lot of alters due to a lot of trauma, and quite a few of them do NOT want to be here.

We've intergrated before, but is there a way to do it on purpose? 

Some of them are actually asking to intergrate, but we don't know how. 

[Former-Member]

Um, actually, new question. Has anyone heard of rapid intergration where members of the system intergrate in a short amount of time, and now there's half as many members?? 

[GraceFalling]

Hi,

I am just at the start of integration therapy, also just at the start of coming to terms with DID. My own experience involving short-cuts is that they do not work. For me, integration simply means that all parts cooperate, some sit back and offer advice from their experience while others front but all are aware of each other and work together, something like living as a committee. There is one who does the major presentations to the rest of the world.

Short tracking tends to be convenient for a high turnover business models. See lots of people, take their money, and move on quickly. The therapy that I am doing is called Parts therapy based on IFS (internal family systems). There are probably others too, look them up, decide what makes sense to you and then find a therapist that specialises in that area. I had to try several before I found one that worked, the others I fired. Yes, you can fire them and you can decide what is the best method for you.

Grace Falling