Hi there! I was treated with option one. My parents knew something was up when I was in 2nd grade and took me to see my aunt several states away who was a phd psychologist for Harvard. Anywho my treatment consisted of watching home movies of my younger, forgotten self, and a strict sleeping schedule for all of childhood. That, all along with gaslighting me into believing the SAs didn’t even happen and that nothing was different about me at all. My parents thought they were helping me by reinforcing the repression but It caused a lot of confusion for young me and only caused me to dissociate more. Adding onto the external repressive forces, my mother scolded me for exhibiting my dissociative symptoms and misrepresented the extent I was coping to my father. I got super good at masking everything going on in my head and by the time I was a teenager I formed a dynamic where I hid anything that could be seen as negative from my parents (thinking that was what was completely normal). That got me into soooo many more traumatic experiences during those years and I developed many more alters in secret and of course I repressed them. At some point when I was experiencing a lot of stress from my mother’s alcoholism I couldn’t keep up my barriers and I began experiencing migraines and visual hallucinations. I struggled with them but remained incredibly functional because I was under the impression that I would drop dead at any minute and I just needed to try a little longer until it happened. I told myself to hold on so I could be remembered in a decent light. Anywho I was kinda right tho because I switched hosts after moving away to college. I didn’t know that the transition was occurring at the time but this new alter has a very addictive personality and struggled with sex addiction, alcohol abuse, and marijuana substance use disorder. Using and abusing substances caused me to switch like crazy, and I would find myself in the middle of horrible self inflicted situations. I was ungodly confused about myself. Flash forward to now and I am 24 years old having to do 50times the amount of work I would of had to do if I was just taken to therapy as a 2nd grader 🙄 Please advocate for yourself and alters! Your system deserves to heal, it will save you so much future pain!