u/Fire_Light_8966

I (we?) have recently been diagnosed with DID. There are only four alters. It used to be two but we went through a very stressful time in our life a few weeks ago and two more of them split off. Every time we've talked to a person with DID they seem to have anywhere from 9-20 alters. We were just wondering how many alters is normal.

Also, we just recently started therapy, but often we have the protector in co-con with the host and both of them are aware. Is this a normal occurrence for someone who's only recently started therapy? We've read that it's very hard to co-con but we seem to do it pretty naturally, though only in a protector + host duo. The others don't co-con. At this point co-fronting does not seem to be possible.