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It’s different for each person but generally the same. Alters, depending on how many you have and why they were created, can live in different areas of the body. It seems like they usually are in the upper body generally speaking, in the head or face and in the torso.
Some alters don’t have a place they live inside. Some are locked in cages and prisons and dungeons. Some are just in a dark place inside. And others are ‘in the head’ or ‘behind the eyes’ all or most of the time and therefore often aren’t aware of the other alters. But if a new alter is formed and another alter is aware of it, depending on the circumstances, the first alter might become a protector or caregiver for the new alter if the new alter isn’t ‘dragged away’ to another place inside.
I believe that the most important thing when you deal with DID is finding out why you have alters in the first place. Alters are created by trauma in every instance. The traumas are different, but the greater the trauma, the greater the split or multiplicity. Children who are sexually abused often develop alters; children who are beaten or/and psychologically-emotionally abused also develop alters; and children who are systematically and purposely abused for the benefit of a sadistic person or group of people (such as in satanic ritual abuse) will always develop some form of a split personality disorder such as DID, DDNOS, bi-polar disorder, manic-depressive, BPD, and DDs, and the list goes on. There are always signs of multiplicity; it’s just that most people don’t know how to pick up on the signs. As it is now, many of the people who are diagnosed with innocuous to major mental issues— like anxiety disorder, depression, ADD/ADHD, schizophrenia, sleeping disorders, and eating disorders— actually have a split personality disorder or dissociative disorder. Within dissociation, there is a plethora of ‘illnesses’ a person can have or is subject to, because a split mind is an anomaly (though not uncommon) and is like a gaping wound where lots of different bacteria can gather. Finding out why one has different personalities is important if the person wants to heal and get better. I hope that was helpful.
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