Anon, I mean this in the gentlest, most understanding way possible.
When you say “DID just as a coping mechanism”–
From a psychological perspective, what do you think DID is?
It’s absolutely normal for switching to activate in response to coping with a stressful situation.
It’s absolutely a typical origin for a plural system to form in response to coping with traumatic and stressful events.
From a purely psychological standpoint, that is exactly what a plural system is for and why it exists.
Edited to add: I also want to say the experience you had– where you were aware, but someone else was acting– is an absolutely typical plural and/or dissociative experience.
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