I’m only a medical graduate but I have lived experience and I really feel the addiction recovery to have been the actual special thing about my journey back from DID. To me addiction is the opposite of contentment. I suppose that makes it discontentment! Substance use, self harm, we should come up with a name for being out of control of your body while still being conscious (trance/dissociation?), these are the individual behavioral symptoms. I’m reading Trances People Live and Dr Stephen Wolinsky calls them deep trance phenomena. He also makes it sound like he refers to them as the parts of a IFS/DID system, and in so far as I can tell, he calls them individual consciousness but essentially focuses of autohypnosis. I often feel like I’m intruding on an academic paper with illiterate comments when I reply here but I’ll say sorry and take the chance! Just wondering what you guys think about that.