How a child creates alters

 I thought this video was a good one.  Because there is no book that instructs a child on how to form alters.  

As I have gotten older, my memories have started coming forward...is that due to age? Or is it do to the fact that I am in a safe place, my alters feel safe, so they are giving me back the memories....

Does that mean, once they give me all their individual memories, that they go away for good?  NO.

The alters are here to stay.  The jobs they once had to do for me when I was a child, have changed.  They have new different jobs,  I still have the protector, the emotional support alters, the palace guard, etc, but their jobs are more mature now.  They help me to navigate adulthood.  They are still alive and well in my brain...maybe they don't front as often, but when I "need" them, they are there.

I watch the news, I see all the war, death and destruction that is going on over seas...the relentless bombing, dead people everywhere, no sleep, constant fear...how many of those children, having to try and survive war, will develop DID?  A child's brain, simply cannot deal with constant bombing, they cannot deal with seeing dead people, pieces of people, no food no water, no safety, and many have lost family....how do they deal with this???  DID.   

Then you see reports of horrible conditions of children, the abuse they sustain from their "family"...for years, being locked in cages, or sexually abused or whatever...how will those children deal with this horrific life they are having to live?  DID

DID is a defense mechanism....with children, that is their only defense....it is a defense, a battle in the childs brain, to protect them, to take away what is happening, because a child simply does not understand events around them,  abusive, traumatic, unrelenting horrible events.

The brain is a tremendous tool.  It can and does things that are unexplainable....no one can adequately explain "how" the brain splits...it just happens at times...there is no book, not the bible, nothing, no book, the brain is the only organism that has access to that "book".

DID is not a 1960"s phenomenon...it is happening today...all over the world, in every country....children are developing this coping mechanism as we speak....This is why it is so important to understand that DID is real....DID saves the lives of children...

I vacillate between hating my alters and accepting them, and understanding just why they are there.  My brain created them, they are a part of who I am...who I HAD to be to survive.

People with DID are not monsters, they are survivors...the monsters are the people or events surrounding that child that forced that childs brain to split...blame them.

When I read or watch stories about "horrific child abuse" or "horrific war zones",  it makes me so sad, because I know what can happen to the child...Will there be therapy for that child?  Or will it be too late for therapy to circumvent DID from happening...my heart aches....

Future generations will be full of adults with DID, because trauma never stops...people abuse their children, there are wars, sickness, etc...it never stops....and if that child has no one to turn too, they turn to their own minds....pretty sad that a small child has to go to that length to protect themselves...think about it....think about your own children, grandchildren...what if they are traumatized, alone, and scared.

This is the reality of our world.   And it is not getting better, it is only getting worse...

S