Sick should not be interesting

When one is sick it sucks, when the committee is sick, life gets interesting.  I have had the creepy crude for days.  All the famous flu symptoms of which I will not regale you.  As a general rule when the body is injured or in pain, it is Jewel's job to handle it.  When the body is sick, it often gets rotated through a number of the committee members.  The other day Julie Girl completely lost her cool.  As in full on temper tantrum and crying fit because she hurt so much.  I'm sure all of you have seen a sick child just lose it because they can not express what is happening in words and they just want to crawl into daddy's lap.  Now picture that same crying fit happening with all that frustrated little girl pain in the body of a 41 year old woman.  It is not a pretty sight and there is no consoling the child because we can't pull her back inside.  She wants her daddy to fix it and that is just all there is to it!

Now as we slowly recover, all of the little's are sleeping most of the time and we are exhausted.  I wish we could keep this from them but our system doesn't work that way.  So tonight the body is exhausted, our throat hurts and we are fighting the overwhelming desire to just cry as we fight the pain in our back.  Julie Girl and Jewel worked on a design for stuffed dragons tonight and Charlie is figuring it out in crochet.  We will see what they come up with but for now we are going to bed.

Remember, memories can not own you but sometimes they will define who you are, if you let them.

Let us Begin

There is always a beginning for such things as we will attempt to share.  Today is our beginning for being completely open with the world.  We often write in plural because it is of how we function in every moment of the day.   For those who do not know Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) is the same thing as multiple personality disorder (MPD).  The designations make the doctors happy, however they have little affect on us as a whole.   We were "officially" diagnosed with DID about seven years ago.  The learning process from that time has had it's definite ups and downs.  We will go into detail later about the scientific understanding of what is believed to cause DID and how it works.

Today let us begin with introductions.  Our name is Friday Zoe Lowrey and we created this name with deliberate purpose.  It means Peaceful Joyous Victory.  That Lowrey happens to be my maiden name is part of the plan.  We are in the process of the legal change to Friday.  The reason behind creating an entire new name is complex and simple.  As a "multiple" our given name belongs to one of the alters.  It became very confusing and frustrating to have each of our alters called by a name when there may be more than one alter presenting at a time.  Thus instead of forcing a choice of who is "fronting", we created an entire new name for the committee's body. 

The committee consists of many alters/people. Some of them are more prominent in the functioning of the day to day activities than others.  Each member of the committee as we call ourselves has a specific job to do in maintaining our world.  Let us introduce ourselves with a simple job title for now.  We will go into specifics for each of us later.

Georgia - our protector -  adult female
Charlie -  order keeper/ proper behavior monitor - adult female
Julie - scholar, teacher, organizer - adult female
Jewel - artist, teacher, care giver  - adult female
Rachel - man eater, sex pot, controller - young adult female
Tara - memory keeper - mermaid, ageless
Frantic - high emotion keeper, autistic - teen female
Serenity - record keeper, endurer, mute - adult female
Emma - translator -  ageless - ethereal
Fury - rage, hurt and anger keeper - fire spirit, female
Laura - organizer, OCD  - 12 year old female
Iggy - care giver, reader -  10 year old female
Julie Girl - story teller, tattle tale, truth speaker - 5 year old female
JJ - blame taker - 3 year old female
Punkin - she's just hunger - 18 months - 2 year old female
Bjorna - sentient bear, protector, spirit guide - female ageless
Cinder - garden keeper, harm taker - young adult female
Gerry - punisher - old woman turned into turtle

I think that is all of us.  I will increase the list if anyone was forgotten. I am looking forward to sharing my story. 
Until next time.. Live with purpose.