Seven Minds, One Body

New discovery... Today I found out something pretty interesting about my alters and I. As it turns out, when the body is sick, everyone, the alters and myself included, are ill to match. Because we all share on body, we can all feel the effects of, oh I don't know, standing outside in the rain for forty minutes in a flash thunderstorm. Safe to say, I caught a cold and so did the others. 

Aside from my current affliction with the common cold, this entry will be about the alters and how they control or coincide with the body. As most of us are different ages and the fact that George and Philip are male whereas the body and I are female, we each have to adjust to sharing one body. For example, when The Monster is in control, the body's movements are much more precise and methodical, whereas when I'm in control, me meaning the host, my movements are natural and sometimes klutzy. 

Each of the alters act as their own person. They develop their own habits that sometimes seem unnatural when matched up with the body. Whenever Kenzie is in control, the body acts as any young child would, hyper and energetic even though it's really much older. Much like what happens when Aspen is in control. When George is in control, though, it's apparent just how suspicious he is based on how the body acts, very much like a hunting predator or a hawk observing a field for mice. 

I only mention these alters, not because they are the only ones that can control the body, far from it actually, but because their control over the body is the most noticeable and recognizable in nature. The others do have small habits that appear when they are in control, but those habits seem very slight in comparison to the aforementioned. 

When an alter grasps control of the body for the first time, for me, it is painful, but this is just personal experience and can be different for everyone. It's painful because there is no forewarning prior to the transition. The new alter pretty much shoves whoever is in control to the background and goes from there. In my experience, it is much like being poked and prodded with needles at first and then simply floating, almost like in a swimming pool on a raft-device-thing, except all of the blood feels like it's rushing to your head. The more aggressive the alters role in the system, The Monster for example, the more painful the transition and the longer the affects. These affects are due to the alter adjusting to the body for the first time and can vary depending on the alter. Personally, I've had the blood-rushing-to-head effect for each one, but other side affects aren't all that rare either. I won't go into detail about the other side affects unless someone actually asks about them specifically, but most are minor and more annoying than anything else. 

Something I want to start doing.... At the end of each entry, I'll pose a question to everyone reading and I'll use the answers in the next entry somehow. Sound any good? Here goes... What was the scariest thing you've ever done? All answers, if I get any, will be kept anonymous. 

As always, any feedback or questions about the disorder or anything in general really are welcomed and very much appreciated. 

Catch You Next Time,

                       -M