poly-fragmented vs. "traditional" DID

[orek]

nats, I totally get that. I guess that's what I'm trying to do, accept my system as it is without attaching all the baggage to it--or having to defend against that baggage. I guess that's what I was starting to feel I was doing here--no one's intent, I'm sure. But I was feeling hurt and invalidated, which is more about my issues than what anyone wrote. Thanks for your thoughtful reply. It brought me back to my senses.

I don't know why we fragmented that way either, but my prevailing assumption is not more severe abuse or red dot stuff (though for reasons unrelated to the poly-fragmentation, not ruling it out yet) but age of onset. It's just how we split when the SA started in infancy, and we just kept on splitting that way. The treatment is exactly the same as for any other expression of DID. But just as first discovering the trauma history, then the DID diagnosis, helped me to understand myself better and explained sooooo much, so, to a lesser degree, does recognizing the poly-fragmentation. To me naming/identifying it is no less helpful than naming the DID in the first place. It's validating and provides its own "aha" moments and also helps inform therapy. But in the end, it's all just healing from trauma, and that's why my last and current Ts are both trauma therapists and not Xian counselors or DID "specialists" or whatever.

I find it an interesting topic, obviously, so I'm happy to discuss it further with anyone who is wanting to do so. But no worries if the discussion has run its course here.