But it doesn't really fit, since a body isn't born with a finished "personality". No matter if DID or not, a freshly born child doesn't have a personality like an adult. Personality/ies are formed during development of the human. So, I doubt that the core as they know her, existed as long as the body existed.
I always thought of it like a tree, the roots (the body) keep you grounded, the trunk (host) keeps everything moving in the right direction, and the branches (alters) help maintain the health of the tree, but I really like the paper analogy.
I’ve thought about this a lot, I think the main reason we use the word “original” is because it’s what our therapist used. But I’ve always kind of felt weird about it, like it was my title, like I was the chosen one or something. Haha -Catherine
It's cool to hear you re-evaluate the word, I think it's nice to see you all educating each other as well as those of us without DID. I love both your channels btw :) x
As someone who doesn't have DID but still enjoys your videos I love being educated on this type of thing. Part of this reason is I may one day have a friend who has DID being a bit more understanding will probably help a in our friendship with understanding who is out, why they have it (not specifically what had happened to them to traumatize them but just that something happened)and things like that. I also used to think of it as a bad thing (To have DID) before I stumbled across this channel and was educated more on the subject. I know now that while it is definitely not a good thing it means the core has had something very traumatic happen it is to simply help protect that core so nothing like that can happen again. Honestly I'm not sure how to word it but I love your guys channel and I'm glad to be able to be educated about this. Much love💚💙
I just wanted to say, as someone who DOES have DID, I really appreciate people like you who are willing to be open-minded and learn about DID even though you don't have it and don't currently know anyone who has it. That is so awesome! That's why The Entropy System's channel, and others like it, are so important. They are showing people that DID is not the scary, freaky thing that some people think it is, nor is it the cool, awesome thing that other people think it is. It is a coping mechanism that is difficult to live with, but doesn't have to be totally debilitating. So thank you, chicken nuggets, for being willing to educate yourself about it, and thank you, Entropy System, for doing the educating! You guys are awesome!!! - Leyna of the Doug Vincent system
How amazing the power of these videos, the bravery of doing this channel, and how humble of you chicken nuggets to admit that you used to think it was a bad thing and now have changed your mind and thank you as your comment has helped me feel better :)
Yes, I don't have DID nor do I have friends with DID (at least as far as I'm aware) but I want to understand it. Partly because I have mental health issues; specifically trauma based ones (BPD & CPTSD) so I know what it's like to go through fkd up stuff. Also my BPD diagnosis causes me to experience stigma not only from regular people but from "professionals" too so I can totally relate to those parts of DID. But I feel like partly it's because I'm interested in mental health in general and helping people and want to be able to help ALL people. I have a dream to open a sanctuary for abused human and non human animals where they come together to heal one another (that's the short version) and I feel like this is something I will NEED more information and understanding of to do so. Plus I find other mental illness explained fascinating and want to learn about it much like I find behaviors and such fascinating too. And I love to learn about how best to help someone when stressed as it also helps me. Like for example finding ways to help someone in a panic attack helped me when I've had them too. Plus when it comes to TH-cam The Entropy System, DisassociaDID & Multiplicity +Me are ALL such nice people and from what I know of those in the systems they are so genuinely wanting to educate and help others wether that's fellow DID people, their friends & supports &or random people. And I've noticed how kind they can be with responses to thise struggling so I enjoy watching them for those reasons too. Like if they were mean disrespectful people I wouldn't keep watching them as there'd be no point as I can't stand that so the fact that they are so beautiful in their own ways makes it even easier to watch their content.
I felt the exact same way. It felt like I was preparing for a future friendship or for a current friend to discover DID in themselves. I told a close friend about this feeling I had and she thought it was funny. About a year later she started hearing from her alters. And we brought up that feeling I had before either of us were aware of how accurate it was. It has helped so much to have some understanding about DID to be the person she can talk to about it.
We do consider ourself having two originals, but not in the same sense people tend to mean- there are just two particular headmates who have been around the longest and who have bonded as a result of that.
I love learning from your videos! I just got accepted to a canadian medical school three days ago. The entropy system is making me a more sensitive and compassionate person and I'll take what I learn here and pass it on for decades to come :)
I like that y'all don't use Original because you are all original in a form, but core and host make sense. Hosts lead what's going on in the 'real world' and the core is the person who is the one who was born with the body and needed the protection from the alters. Thanks for explaining the terms Daniel!! Entropy System, y'all are all awesome and I hope you all have a lovely day
Daniel: Our host is different than our core. Dani is our host, and Apryl is our core. Apryl is dormant unfortunately. She does come out once in a while, but not terribly often. She only seems to come out once in a while during intense trauma or to express gratitude to our partner system who has been incredible to us. I'd say she comes out maybe 2 or 3 times a year at the most, if not more sparse than that.
This makes so much sense. Our system is a bit odd at times. My alter/ co-host see's herself as the core ( mainly because she comes out so much). But for her, it's more about keeping everything in check and source of strength also courage to not be scared. As everyone can tell by our profile picture, heh
This makes so much sense! Tom and Silas Co-host in our system, and Silas is the core, even though he doesn't have name that we were born with (that's actually one of our really shy alters who almost never comes out, she normally just hides in The Basement, which is a corner of our mind that we can't see into, and others can't see out of, kind of like a panic room, and when she isn't in The Basement she hides with one of our other shy Alters, Athena.) So we always call her the original, because she has the name we were born with. But I see how that term might not sit right with you! ~Lily
This video helped immensely. My girlfriend is the core as well as the host. All of her alters recently "officially came out", and the whole "everyone is an alter" concept kicked off an existential crisis for both of us. "What if I'm not me?" "What if, after, I integrate, I'm a completely different person and everything changes?" Now, I feel like I completely understand it. She's the personality born with the body, she's out 90% of the time, and all of the alters acknowledge that they are pieces that will come together to help her feel more like herself. Whew. Massive relief for both of us. Thanks!
I’ve said the same thing in my last podcast about how we are all alters. I did have a re-arranging of perspective on DID that had been much like your paper example, but realized that according to the current and accepted explanation of structural dissociation, the paper didn’t rip into pieces where they were once a whole paper, but they started off as pieces and never became whole.
You're so good at explaining thing, Daniel. You could probably explain anything and I'd understand. Thank you so much for teaching us all these things.
The analogy actually blew me away. They should teach it this way in professional settings it's honestly a super easy way and straight forward way to explain it. Very good job!
I'm glad having more than one host is normal! Levi (cohost)and I Janina(core) have been in this balance for several years but when I've mentioned this on Instagram some other systems seemed confused. -we love your channel!! it's so educational and never triggering which we appreciate so much. we're thinking about showing some of your guy's videos to our therapist. -isabelle also, I'm glad you explained the difference between "original" and core. we've been using the term original for a while but your paper analogy taught us better. -levi it's good to know!! -isabelle ps. if any of you systems in the comments would like to connect, our instagtam is @sunlight_system 💕 -janina
I use both host and core too. I don't have many alters and we all are happy with these terms. Thank you so much. I appreciate your channel so so much. I can't thank you enough! I'm sure everyone here appreciates it as well. Have a great week!
Good things to know! I’ve always been slightly confused as to what terms to use when talking about this. “Original” just seemed kinda inaccurate. Also, good job with the paper analogy! It helped.
We consider ourselves to have 2 "cores". A mute, shy boy and a talkative, outgoing girl. But personally we HATE using it as an identifier and so do they. Well, the girl integrated and is now a gender neutral and outgoing alter named Anon and RARELY fronts but the boy is still relatively active. He wants more time in the body bc he went mostly dormant for 3-4 years and wants more time to himself bc whenever he fronts we're in public. But they have no special rights in our system. We are all equals.
This is really interesting! We've never had a problem with the term 'original'- I've never really thought about it. Our original is currently dormant, and while we are all dealing with the trauma she experienced I wouldn't say that she's the core currently? It's weird, like the brain has shifted priorities since she's been asleep. As the host, it's hard to say, but it's a super complicated topic, and your video was really helpful
Oooh I like this analogy! Also I feel like some bread analogies would work too but would take a lot of effort and work and money.. okay they wouldn't be practical at all but I feel like in theory they could show how the bits of what would be the single personality, had the mind not ended up being a system, could grow to become their own people ♡ we don't even have a core of any sort because we became a system preeeeetty early on in our life so we just have a bunch of littles and a few other pretty abstract alters and that's about it but that also means we ended up trying to protect every member equally in our system without even knowing that this was a good idea beforehand so I feel like that's pretty cool :3 speaking of littles they love both you guys (same as myself) and all the figurines behind you xD -Jack
I have no influence from outside of myself that would make me use the word original, and up until less than a week ago I didn't even think I would have a need to use that word. Until she accidentally got ripped out during ketamine treatment. All of my parts are very, very different from what she is. We are all there to protect her and unfortunately also kind of lock her away. I was always curious as to why we were so highly emotional and dysfunctional when I thought parts were supposed to be there to help me be 'normal'. But it's really seeming like we took all the hits so she didn't have to. When she came out for those 2 hours she was scared and everything was loud but she was strong and kind and 4 years old. I've never doubted what anyone else has said their experience is, but to experience 4-year-old me being pulled through 30 years of memories and experiencing them seemingly all at the same time is indescribable. Time did not make sense memory did not make sense, because it was all happening at once and this was long after my session was over. I was sober. I never would have thought that there was a core, but she is that when we've always referred to as precious and cherished. Before I knew of my diagnosis I referred to her as my inner child, but I had not the slightest idea that she was a literal entirely separate mind that barely knew how to work a cell phone.
personally, we use co-hosting to describe when we’re both either controlling different parts of the body (i.e. one of us takes the role of host in the sense that we put things into words/communicate, and the other does in every way but that!), and sometimes when one of us is hosting but the other... knows whats going on, essentially.
Thanks so much, Daniel! My experience with my psychologist validates your example. He considers my other identities equal to me and that I am equal to them! I love it! Thanks sooo very much from the Androemeda System!❤
this was super helpful for me to better understand. when my friend first told me he had DID i was really confused because he is the host but not the core and this cleared up a lot of my confusion.
Thank you so much. I’ve been having a hard time with the whole original thing because I don’t have a lot of childhood memories, my little does but she doesn’t come out. So I was wondering who was there when I was a child? Were they the original? But this makes more sense to me. We all make up an original who split and I am the core and host. This helped receive a lot of stress. Thank you
I recently came across y’all’s channel probably because I follow Jess and her boys on Multiplicity and Me and I binge watched all your videos. Learning about different systems is absolutely fascinating! Thank you for the educational aspects as well!
Wow :) as someone whose therapist has suggested and helped me recently explore this possibility for my way of being, a system, this helped calm my identity crisis and sense of losing myself or being forced to add something to or take something away from me by accepting this possible reality. This also helped me realise if it is true that I am a system, it is not that the total of "me" has lost control and could at any point ending with the result that so I am more dangerous or risky than other people and always will be, but simply that even if who I experience the world as now was not the identity existing from birth, or it is and another one needs to come to the front consciously, I who I experience most of my time as, am still from "me" who was born (the full me before breaking off) and a part of it and still one with it in a sense, and it might not be so scary for me to come to terms with that I could who experience most my time could be a fleshed out earlier fragment and even help me begin to accept the possibility that this (system/disorder) is applicable to me. Your video was much clearer than my comment haha >< so thank you so much. I think in the future, if this turns out that I am, a system, then I think I will use this video to explain what is going on to people who I am close to. Thank you so much! so clear
I literally found your channel 24 hours ago and watched all of your guys' videos! I started studying, and what do you know, y'all upload! This is great, and you guys are great
I've always used "host" to refer to Travis. Given the information in this video though I think "core" is a better title sine we are a bit confused on who the host is right now. Thanks for another awesome vid :) - Yugi
Thank you for your excellent explanation, Daniel! As part of a DID system myself, I too get frustrated by people who don't understand this concept. But I agree with you, the best thing to do when you are frustrated by people like that, is not to get angry, but to educate them! I can tell that you and the rest of your system really have a heart for educating people about DID, and I think that's awesome! Keep up the good work, you guys! - Leyna Vincent
Thank you so much this has been so helpful! I am just in the beginning stages of finding out about my own system and was very curious about co-hosting as I feel like there are 2 hosts in my system but I've never seen anyone else mention this! You guys have such a down to earth way of explaining things that is incredibly helpful!
Thanks Daniel for explaining it so clearly, I've come to enjoy watching your systems videos and have learned a lot! I definitely intend on watching future videos
Thank you for the paper analogy. the way you explained that really clicked for me! its really helped me understand DID a bit more just like all your videos! so thanks!
I needed this so much. I didn’t know why I was so drawn to DID videos but I.. I guess us... are freaked out and trying to figure out when the host switched.
Lol I wonder who the one dislike was from. In seriousness though, I loved this analogy. I think it's kind of perfect. I also really like listening to Daniel talk. He seems a very nice combination of positive and also logical and matter of fact.
Aw this is such a great way to explain it!! I have such a hard time trying to explain the concept of core vs host to people, definitely gonna start using this paper analogy!
Love your explanation boo, Osc is our host and I guess I can be called the co-host cuz I come out a lot and can be out for a long time but osc is our core, much love from me cutie 😘 -Cue
I can assure you that neither Wyn nor anyone in her system considers themselves your "boo," and I can also assure you that no one in the system appreciates you calling them cutie.
And I'm saying however you choose to define yourself doesn't excuse common decency. Being a flirt doesn't excuse making people uncomfortable. I think what you meant to start that off was with "I don't care how people feel because I'm just inconsiderate and I justify it this way....."
I use original because she was here first. She was a kid, something happened to her, she couldn't deal with it, so she went into the headspace. Our mind created a new host to fill that gap, before eventually making me, a "new and improved" version of the original, to be a more permanent host . I feel like a lot of who I am came from her; she was the first person here and I think I'm supposed to be a better, more capable version of her, thus explaining how similar we are in a lot of respects. To many who are unfamiliar with OSDD/DID I refer to her as a sort of younger version of me, though that's not entirely accurate. She's more like a little sister, someone who I share lots of traits with but am defined as separate from. We are still very clearly different people despite our similarities; from gender, sexuality, age, and nation of origin, to core beliefs and the way we see the world. I don't like the term core because for me it implies there is someone at the center, and then all the other extra parts. We aren't "extra"; everyone in the system is entitled to life and use of the body as anyone else. Just because not everyone is out as often doesn't mean we are lesser. We are all people, and we are valid. You are too
Can I just say how I happy I am that I can watch you guys every Monday morning. It's such a great start to my day :) Anyways, I'm reference to the video, although it's a little embarrassing to admit now, I actually never thought of originals/cores in that way. Though this just reidderated what I knew about alters being parts of the host and not additions, i guess I never put two and two together on the definitions of different terminology and how they may contradict with that knowledge.
Hi! I recently discovered this channel and started learning about DID, then I learned one of my close friends has DID. It is so cool to learn from a system like yours about DID and then in turn, help out my friend. Thank you so much for existing, I love your channelllllll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You just put into words all the stuff we've been trying to get straight in our system. Your analogy really helped us understand our system better. Thanks! -Matty
Omg nice! You guys always seem to make videos with explanations we didn't know we needed 😛 We'll be saving this excellent paper analogy for when we explain things to others. We have at least 2 alters who could be considered the core, so it's a little confusing for us - but that's okay cause things are rarely black and white. We're still puzzling out our host situation, too 😂 Great video as always Daniel, keep it up 👍 -Eryn
this actually helped me to understand myself more. i am not made of extra bits. in time i can become what i was before. i love how u explained this so much. thank you daniel
You can always learn something new at 12:21 am before school in the morning 😂😂 I really appreciate the videos all of you make, i had no knowledge of anything really about DID up until a few weekends ago and I binged all of the channel's videos 😂
The paper analogy is actually really helpful to people that are new to the concept of DID
I've heard others use a shattered glass in a similar fashion. It really helps to visualize it.
The paper is a great analogy. We're all part of the same paper that was there in the very beginning, even if we came along later or whatever.
Well done. I always explain it like a pie. You can cut the pie as many times as you want but it still maintains being a whole pie with all the pieces.
But it doesn't really fit, since a body isn't born with a finished "personality". No matter if DID or not, a freshly born child doesn't have a personality like an adult. Personality/ies are formed during development of the human.
So, I doubt that the core as they know her, existed as long as the body existed.
I always thought of it like a tree, the roots (the body) keep you grounded, the trunk (host) keeps everything moving in the right direction, and the branches (alters) help maintain the health of the tree, but I really like the paper analogy.
I’ve thought about this a lot, I think the main reason we use the word “original” is because it’s what our therapist used. But I’ve always kind of felt weird about it, like it was my title, like I was the chosen one or something. Haha
-Catherine
It's cool to hear you re-evaluate the word, I think it's nice to see you all educating each other as well as those of us without DID. I love both your channels btw :) x
As someone who doesn't have DID but still enjoys your videos I love being educated on this type of thing. Part of this reason is I may one day have a friend who has DID being a bit more understanding will probably help a in our friendship with understanding who is out, why they have it (not specifically what had happened to them to traumatize them but just that something happened)and things like that. I also used to think of it as a bad thing (To have DID) before I stumbled across this channel and was educated more on the subject. I know now that while it is definitely not a good thing it means the core has had something very traumatic happen it is to simply help protect that core so nothing like that can happen again. Honestly I'm not sure how to word it but I love your guys channel and I'm glad to be able to be educated about this. Much love💚💙
I just wanted to say, as someone who DOES have DID, I really appreciate people like you who are willing to be open-minded and learn about DID even though you don't have it and don't currently know anyone who has it. That is so awesome! That's why The Entropy System's channel, and others like it, are so important. They are showing people that DID is not the scary, freaky thing that some people think it is, nor is it the cool, awesome thing that other people think it is. It is a coping mechanism that is difficult to live with, but doesn't have to be totally debilitating. So thank you, chicken nuggets, for being willing to educate yourself about it, and thank you, Entropy System, for doing the educating! You guys are awesome!!! - Leyna of the Doug Vincent system
How amazing the power of these videos, the bravery of doing this channel, and how humble of you chicken nuggets to admit that you used to think it was a bad thing and now have changed your mind and thank you as your comment has helped me feel better :)
Yes, I don't have DID nor do I have friends with DID (at least as far as I'm aware) but I want to understand it.
Partly because I have mental health issues; specifically trauma based ones (BPD & CPTSD) so I know what it's like to go through fkd up stuff. Also my BPD diagnosis causes me to experience stigma not only from regular people but from "professionals" too so I can totally relate to those parts of DID. But I feel like partly it's because I'm interested in mental health in general and helping people and want to be able to help ALL people.
I have a dream to open a sanctuary for abused human and non human animals where they come together to heal one another (that's the short version) and I feel like this is something I will NEED more information and understanding of to do so.
Plus I find other mental illness explained fascinating and want to learn about it much like I find behaviors and such fascinating too. And I love to learn about how best to help someone when stressed as it also helps me. Like for example finding ways to help someone in a panic attack helped me when I've had them too.
Plus when it comes to TH-cam The Entropy System, DisassociaDID & Multiplicity +Me are ALL such nice people and from what I know of those in the systems they are so genuinely wanting to educate and help others wether that's fellow DID people, their friends & supports &or random people.
And I've noticed how kind they can be with responses to thise struggling so I enjoy watching them for those reasons too.
Like if they were mean disrespectful people I wouldn't keep watching them as there'd be no point as I can't stand that so the fact that they are so beautiful in their own ways makes it even easier to watch their content.
I felt the exact same way. It felt like I was preparing for a future friendship or for a current friend to discover DID in themselves. I told a close friend about this feeling I had and she thought it was funny. About a year later she started hearing from her alters. And we brought up that feeling I had before either of us were aware of how accurate it was. It has helped so much to have some understanding about DID to be the person she can talk to about it.
Yeah which the brain doing the splits in emergency is super amazing
Like WOOWWW thats cool
Like i never THOUGHT the Brain does that
We do consider ourself having two originals, but not in the same sense people tend to mean- there are just two particular headmates who have been around the longest and who have bonded as a result of that.
I love learning from your videos! I just got accepted to a canadian medical school three days ago. The entropy system is making me a more sensitive and compassionate person and I'll take what I learn here and pass it on for decades to come :)
I like that y'all don't use Original because you are all original in a form, but core and host make sense. Hosts lead what's going on in the 'real world' and the core is the person who is the one who was born with the body and needed the protection from the alters. Thanks for explaining the terms Daniel!! Entropy System, y'all are all awesome and I hope you all have a lovely day
holy crap even as someone w DID this was really clarifying, i never thought of it this way
Daniel: Our host is different than our core. Dani is our host, and Apryl is our core. Apryl is dormant unfortunately. She does come out once in a while, but not terribly often. She only seems to come out once in a while during intense trauma or to express gratitude to our partner system who has been incredible to us. I'd say she comes out maybe 2 or 3 times a year at the most, if not more sparse than that.
Thank you for all of your educational videos!! They really help people like me (who doesn’t have DID) understand.
This makes so much sense. Our system is a bit odd at times. My alter/ co-host see's herself as the core ( mainly because she comes out so much). But for her, it's more about keeping everything in check and source of strength also courage to not be scared. As everyone can tell by our profile picture, heh
This makes so much sense! Tom and Silas Co-host in our system, and Silas is the core, even though he doesn't have name that we were born with (that's actually one of our really shy alters who almost never comes out, she normally just hides in The Basement, which is a corner of our mind that we can't see into, and others can't see out of, kind of like a panic room, and when she isn't in The Basement she hides with one of our other shy Alters, Athena.) So we always call her the original, because she has the name we were born with. But I see how that term might not sit right with you!
~Lily
Those are really great examples. Using that paper as a way to show us more clearly how this works, it really made me understand it better. Good job :)
This video helped immensely. My girlfriend is the core as well as the host. All of her alters recently "officially came out", and the whole "everyone is an alter" concept kicked off an existential crisis for both of us. "What if I'm not me?" "What if, after, I integrate, I'm a completely different person and everything changes?" Now, I feel like I completely understand it. She's the personality born with the body, she's out 90% of the time, and all of the alters acknowledge that they are pieces that will come together to help her feel more like herself. Whew. Massive relief for both of us. Thanks!
I’ve said the same thing in my last podcast about how we are all alters. I did have a re-arranging of perspective on DID that had been much like your paper example, but realized that according to the current and accepted explanation of structural dissociation, the paper didn’t rip into pieces where they were once a whole paper, but they started off as pieces and never became whole.
You're so good at explaining thing, Daniel. You could probably explain anything and I'd understand. Thank you so much for teaching us all these things.
The analogy actually blew me away. They should teach it this way in professional settings it's honestly a super easy way and straight forward way to explain it. Very good job!
The paper is a surprisingly unique and effective analogy! I never would've thought about it that way!
5:29 awww adorable kitty.
I love your videos so much, I'm learning so much about myself and it's awesome
Well explained. The core personality is as much a fragment as are the alters.
I'm glad having more than one host is normal! Levi (cohost)and I Janina(core) have been in this balance for several years but when I've mentioned this on Instagram some other systems seemed confused.
-we love your channel!! it's so educational and never triggering which we appreciate so much. we're thinking about showing some of your guy's videos to our therapist. -isabelle
also, I'm glad you explained the difference between "original" and core. we've been using the term original for a while but your paper analogy taught us better. -levi
it's good to know!! -isabelle
ps. if any of you systems in the comments would like to connect, our instagtam is @sunlight_system 💕
-janina
I use both host and core too. I don't have many alters and we all are happy with these terms. Thank you so much. I appreciate your channel so so much. I can't thank you enough! I'm sure everyone here appreciates it as well. Have a great week!
Good things to know! I’ve always been slightly confused as to what terms to use when talking about this. “Original” just seemed kinda inaccurate. Also, good job with the paper analogy! It helped.
We consider ourselves to have 2 "cores". A mute, shy boy and a talkative, outgoing girl. But personally we HATE using it as an identifier and so do they. Well, the girl integrated and is now a gender neutral and outgoing alter named Anon and RARELY fronts but the boy is still relatively active. He wants more time in the body bc he went mostly dormant for 3-4 years and wants more time to himself bc whenever he fronts we're in public. But they have no special rights in our system. We are all equals.
This is really interesting! We've never had a problem with the term 'original'- I've never really thought about it. Our original is currently dormant, and while we are all dealing with the trauma she experienced I wouldn't say that she's the core currently? It's weird, like the brain has shifted priorities since she's been asleep. As the host, it's hard to say, but it's a super complicated topic, and your video was really helpful
Thank you this will help me make a much better representation of DID in my book.
Oooh I like this analogy! Also I feel like some bread analogies would work too but would take a lot of effort and work and money.. okay they wouldn't be practical at all but I feel like in theory they could show how the bits of what would be the single personality, had the mind not ended up being a system, could grow to become their own people ♡ we don't even have a core of any sort because we became a system preeeeetty early on in our life so we just have a bunch of littles and a few other pretty abstract alters and that's about it but that also means we ended up trying to protect every member equally in our system without even knowing that this was a good idea beforehand so I feel like that's pretty cool :3 speaking of littles they love both you guys (same as myself) and all the figurines behind you xD -Jack
I have no influence from outside of myself that would make me use the word original, and up until less than a week ago I didn't even think I would have a need to use that word. Until she accidentally got ripped out during ketamine treatment. All of my parts are very, very different from what she is. We are all there to protect her and unfortunately also kind of lock her away. I was always curious as to why we were so highly emotional and dysfunctional when I thought parts were supposed to be there to help me be 'normal'. But it's really seeming like we took all the hits so she didn't have to. When she came out for those 2 hours she was scared and everything was loud but she was strong and kind and 4 years old. I've never doubted what anyone else has said their experience is, but to experience 4-year-old me being pulled through 30 years of memories and experiencing them seemingly all at the same time is indescribable. Time did not make sense memory did not make sense, because it was all happening at once and this was long after my session was over. I was sober. I never would have thought that there was a core, but she is that when we've always referred to as precious and cherished. Before I knew of my diagnosis I referred to her as my inner child, but I had not the slightest idea that she was a literal entirely separate mind that barely knew how to work a cell phone.
personally, we use co-hosting to describe when we’re both either controlling different parts of the body (i.e. one of us takes the role of host in the sense that we put things into words/communicate, and the other does in every way but that!), and sometimes when one of us is hosting but the other... knows whats going on, essentially.
cecil mutt! Thank you I was starting to think I was the only one.
Thanks so much, Daniel! My experience with my psychologist validates your example. He considers my other identities equal to me and that I am equal to them! I love it! Thanks sooo very much from the Androemeda System!❤
this was super helpful for me to better understand. when my friend first told me he had DID i was really confused because he is the host but not the core and this cleared up a lot of my confusion.
Thank you so much. I’ve been having a hard time with the whole original thing because I don’t have a lot of childhood memories, my little does but she doesn’t come out. So I was wondering who was there when I was a child? Were they the original? But this makes more sense to me. We all make up an original who split and I am the core and host. This helped receive a lot of stress. Thank you
I recently came across y’all’s channel probably because I follow Jess and her boys on Multiplicity and Me and I binge watched all your videos. Learning about different systems is absolutely fascinating! Thank you for the educational aspects as well!
with the doctors i've been with and our therapy that we use there was not an original whole person , ever.
Wow :) as someone whose therapist has suggested and helped me recently explore this possibility for my way of being, a system, this helped calm my identity crisis and sense of losing myself or being forced to add something to or take something away from me by accepting this possible reality. This also helped me realise if it is true that I am a system, it is not that the total of "me" has lost control and could at any point ending with the result that so I am more dangerous or risky than other people and always will be, but simply that even if who I experience the world as now was not the identity existing from birth, or it is and another one needs to come to the front consciously, I who I experience most of my time as, am still from "me" who was born (the full me before breaking off) and a part of it and still one with it in a sense, and it might not be so scary for me to come to terms with that I could who experience most my time could be a fleshed out earlier fragment and even help me begin to accept the possibility that this (system/disorder) is applicable to me. Your video was much clearer than my comment haha >< so thank you so much. I think in the future, if this turns out that I am, a system, then I think I will use this video to explain what is going on to people who I am close to. Thank you so much! so clear
I literally found your channel 24 hours ago and watched all of your guys' videos! I started studying, and what do you know, y'all upload! This is great, and you guys are great
Same
I understood the basics of it before but being a visual person, having it shown to me like this makes it much easier to comprehend. Thanks Daniel :)
That was a super useful analogy and makes a lot of sense. Thanks Daniel.
I've always used "host" to refer to Travis. Given the information in this video though I think "core" is a better title sine we are a bit confused on who the host is right now. Thanks for another awesome vid :) - Yugi
Thank you for your excellent explanation, Daniel! As part of a DID system myself, I too get frustrated by people who don't understand this concept. But I agree with you, the best thing to do when you are frustrated by people like that, is not to get angry, but to educate them! I can tell that you and the rest of your system really have a heart for educating people about DID, and I think that's awesome! Keep up the good work, you guys! - Leyna Vincent
That was a really great explanation. Thanks Daniel.
Genius. This makes sooo much more sense!!!
This is wonderful explanations validating my reality ❤
This was very easy to follow and understand. Thanks for taking the time to make these videos for those who do and don't have DID :)
This was really interesting! I have been wondering this for a long while! Thanks!
Thanks for another great video guys! :)
I'm learning as I go, and this was so, so helpful. Thank you so much.
This is an awesome analogy and so helpful! Thank you!
I've always wondered that too and you have been really clear and helpful. Thank you
Thank you Daniel. You made that so easy to understand.
This cleared up a lot of questions i had but was to afraid to ask. Thanks :)
Great done Daniel! Thank you!
This is the best analogy I’ve ever seen, thank you!!!
That just helped us so much! That's the best way I've ever heard it explained for sure.
You explain this so well! Well done Daniel 😊
This was really something I didn't get until now, thank you so much for explaining! :)
What an amazing way to explain this. Love your videos! 😊
this is so very helpful - thank you!
Thank you so much this has been so helpful! I am just in the beginning stages of finding out about my own system and was very curious about co-hosting as I feel like there are 2 hosts in my system but I've never seen anyone else mention this! You guys have such a down to earth way of explaining things that is incredibly helpful!
I can watch your videos over 20 times without losing interest. Great content!
Thanks Daniel for explaining it so clearly, I've come to enjoy watching your systems videos and have learned a lot! I definitely intend on watching future videos
Thank you for explaining in a very easy to understand way.
Thank you so much for explaining love it ❤💚💜
Great explanation!!!!!!! The paper analogy was awesome
Great explanation Daniel! Thank you!
Thank you for the paper analogy. the way you explained that really clicked for me! its really helped me understand DID a bit more just like all your videos! so thanks!
Beautiful explanation Daniel, thank you xx
I needed this so much. I didn’t know why I was so drawn to DID videos but I.. I guess us... are freaked out and trying to figure out when the host switched.
That analogy is absolutely amazing, Daniel, always awesome to have a video that presents a topic I'd not even thought of before in a way like that
Very clear. Great analogy.
O love you videos! I discovered them through the dissociaDID system and have been binge watching them all day
this is a great explanation Daniel!
Thank you for explaining it in a way that makes tons of sense
This was such a fantastic analogy
Thank you Daniel for the information! also for sharing your adorable kitty! 😸
Lol I wonder who the one dislike was from. In seriousness though, I loved this analogy. I think it's kind of perfect. I also really like listening to Daniel talk. He seems a very nice combination of positive and also logical and matter of fact.
Daniel! I love when you explain things :) plus your voice is so soothing!! Although, everyone does an amazing job!! Keep it up guys :*
Wow I loved your explanation of original with the piece of paper analogy!!!
This paper analogy is so smart
Aw this is such a great way to explain it!! I have such a hard time trying to explain the concept of core vs host to people, definitely gonna start using this paper analogy!
thank you Daniel for today's lesson, I love learning, I soak it up like a sponge.
have a great day
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Very awesome Daniel! You are really good at explaining these sometimes confusing topics. Thank you
Love your explanation boo, Osc is our host and I guess I can be called the co-host cuz I come out a lot and can be out for a long time but osc is our core, much love from me cutie 😘
-Cue
I can assure you that neither Wyn nor anyone in her system considers themselves your "boo," and I can also assure you that no one in the system appreciates you calling them cutie.
Andy listen, I'm gay, I'm a flirt, I'm not meant to be taken seriously, I love her and her system like family members, nothing more, kay?
-Cue
And I'm saying however you choose to define yourself doesn't excuse common decency. Being a flirt doesn't excuse making people uncomfortable. I think what you meant to start that off was with "I don't care how people feel because I'm just inconsiderate and I justify it this way....."
@@oscarcerda8331 hey its ok but please try to tone it a bit down there are maybe children around?
I use original because she was here first. She was a kid, something happened to her, she couldn't deal with it, so she went into the headspace. Our mind created a new host to fill that gap, before eventually making me, a "new and improved" version of the original, to be a more permanent host . I feel like a lot of who I am came from her; she was the first person here and I think I'm supposed to be a better, more capable version of her, thus explaining how similar we are in a lot of respects. To many who are unfamiliar with OSDD/DID I refer to her as a sort of younger version of me, though that's not entirely accurate. She's more like a little sister, someone who I share lots of traits with but am defined as separate from. We are still very clearly different people despite our similarities; from gender, sexuality, age, and nation of origin, to core beliefs and the way we see the world. I don't like the term core because for me it implies there is someone at the center, and then all the other extra parts. We aren't "extra"; everyone in the system is entitled to life and use of the body as anyone else. Just because not everyone is out as often doesn't mean we are lesser. We are all people, and we are valid. You are too
Can I just say how I happy I am that I can watch you guys every Monday morning. It's such a great start to my day :) Anyways, I'm reference to the video, although it's a little embarrassing to admit now, I actually never thought of originals/cores in that way. Though this just reidderated what I knew about alters being parts of the host and not additions, i guess I never put two and two together on the definitions of different terminology and how they may contradict with that knowledge.
As a relatively new follower, this was really helpful!! I hope to work with systems in the future once i start my career in mental health care
Hi! I recently discovered this channel and started learning about DID, then I learned one of my close friends has DID. It is so cool to learn from a system like yours about DID and then in turn, help out my friend. Thank you so much for existing, I love your channelllllll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Such a great analogy!
This is perfect! Thanks guys! I run some DID/OSDD support groups on kid and this is perfect for helping to explain that common misconception!
You just put into words all the stuff we've been trying to get straight in our system. Your analogy really helped us understand our system better. Thanks! -Matty
Omg nice! You guys always seem to make videos with explanations we didn't know we needed 😛 We'll be saving this excellent paper analogy for when we explain things to others. We have at least 2 alters who could be considered the core, so it's a little confusing for us - but that's okay cause things are rarely black and white. We're still puzzling out our host situation, too 😂 Great video as always Daniel, keep it up 👍 -Eryn
this actually helped me to understand myself more. i am not made of extra bits. in time i can become what i was before. i love how u explained this so much. thank you daniel
This made a lot of sense. Thank You
I've been so deeply upset bc my core is lost and hasn't hosted in so long. I just want them back so badly
Thanks for the great explanation, Daniel!
You can always learn something new at 12:21 am before school in the morning 😂😂 I really appreciate the videos all of you make, i had no knowledge of anything really about DID up until a few weekends ago and I binged all of the channel's videos 😂
I love talking about things I learned about that i find so interesting and new to me and so vocab videos like these help sooooo much 😁😁♡
Awesome! Great explanation😉
THank you, now we know who is the core and who is the host. and we now know the terms too .