Willing, Hey thanks, I know what you're talking about, I had a friend who has PTSD and this is the way she described it for her. Though at that time I had never compartmentalized to the point in which she was speaking, I understood what she was suggesting about herself. And, the way I understood it then, with K) is just the way someone else here earlier in this thread said, speaking of different times in our lives, different realities with it's different threats, and our feelings of increased need for different defense mechanisms and coping strategies at different times in our lives.

However when it comes to perceiving myself at times, everything gets all distorted, with me not seeing the good and being unmerciful to self and full of many fears. And so, even though no therapist or anyone for that matter has ever suggested I'm suffering with MPD, I don't need them to, as often if I fear I have something, I get confused with what's fear and what reality.

And then my husb. says tonight that as he see's, it the different stages of personality is normal for everyone.

I may have made it sound like I have other voices, I don't, I do however remember memories of hearing the voices of other people and most especially my abusers, but outside of that it's just me.

Anyhow Willing, Please take care and good hearing from you.

This just dawned on me. The word 'compartmentalized' may mean one thing to me and understood differently by someone else. I'm going to have to read detailed clinical material on what 'comp....' even really means, bc I've been only assuming I know.