#did remission

[system-of-a-feather]

BTW for the folks at final fusion, functional multiplicity, full integration or whatever you want to call it. If you end up splitting, fusing, dividing, eating a tomato or take a nap at 8 pm, none of that is a reflection to you failing at recovery nor does it invalidate your stage of recovery.

Additionally, you are of no obligation to announce it to your audience like it was a sin, failure, or form of deception to your place in healing.

There is no genuine strict threshold or rules to your recovery path and where you find yourself.

[reimeichan]

Gotta keep reminding myself that just because I reached a major recovery goal, doesn't mean I'll no longer display symptoms of my disorder. I'm still learning how to stabilize, how to manage my symptoms, how to process my trauma. I only *just* hit final fusion after all, it's understandable that I may struggle to stay fused or that I may sometimes struggle with feeling the other parts of me or that I may even experience being frontstuck or rapidly switching between the different versions of me. I may now rely less on dissociation and be more connected to the other parts of me, but that doesn't mean I'm done healing and that I won't end up dissociating again.

I'm just... I keep doubting myself that I have "truly" fused with all the other parts of me. I guess I dislike the "final" part of the term "final fusion" for this reason, as it makes it sound like I should be done and finished with this part of my healing journey. I'm not, there's so much new stuff to learn and I still have to remember the old skills and resources I have. I'm still someone with DID, even if those symptoms may for the most part be in remission.

Just... trying to be kinder to myself and more forgiving when I slip up.

[theorionissystem]

It would be nice if there were specific tags for people further in recovery.

Like I really don't mesh with a lot of the stuff in the tags these days.

Well thats when the tags aren't also flooded with things having nothing to do with the disorder... but that's neither here nor there.

[greens-spilled-tea]

if you're ok answering: who are the late stage DID bloggers? 👀 i'm looking into integration/final fusion myself and would really really like to see more people who talk about it

@subsystems recently answered a really similar ask about this! I'll put the link here for ya.

I'll also suggest @theorionissystem for good late-stage content, and I also know @smokee78 has achieved final fusion. I have a few other systems in mind who may fit the bill but I don't know if they'd label themselves late stage/in remission DID bloggers so I'll leave them off the list for now. If you're a fellow late-stage recovery/in-remission DID blogger please let me know! I'm always down to follow more people further along in their DID journey as it gives me a lot of hope and a feeling of community in a space that often feels like earlier stage healing shenanigans are talked about. Not that earlier stage stuff is bad! But sometimes it can get a bit lonely feeling like you're the only person with these experiences and being able to connect with others who are in a similar place as me has genuinely helped me a lot.

[theorionissystem]

Tags aren't some form of discord server, nor are they a community,

They're just tags, a place you put things that happen to be related in some way.

you're not going to get kicked out just because you aren't as healed as you thought you were

Nor are you going to get kicked out for relapsing or splitting or whatever

You either use them or you don't.

It's only natural that people will go through late recovery stages several times before achieving some form of remission.

But people want to see those things, especially people who have barely started any form of therapy or can't currently access any form of treatment. Just knowing it gets better and having an idea of what that might look like is soooooo good for all of us.

I think in that regard I am starting to settle specifically on the tag of #didrecovery since it's much broader and more encompassing of all forms of recovery

[theorionissystem]

I'm too lazy to fix the fact that the first line is supposed to be about me not posting comics for a year and a half, but now it looks like I repeated myself lol. I'll probably fix it before posting elsewhere but not today.

Anyway I wanted a somewhat visual representation of how things have progressed.

[system-of-a-feather]

BTW I ran out of spoons to really keep leading the discussion, surveying and polls about the late stage DID recovery tag discussion. I've personally taken to #didrecovery and saw a few others and so - unless someone else runs a proper poll - thats just what Im primarily using

But I likely wont get to doing formal surveying and what not if anyone else wants to take the torch on properly leading those discussions