Hi guys. I was wondering... A lot of you guys mention "parts" of the self. I'm not sure I know what this means. Now, I have heard this before, both with DID people and non-DID people. I do not have DID, but one conversation I had with my T he mentioned something about "parts" and how we all have parts of ourselves. This was the only conversation where he ever really made that perfectly clear.

I was sorta taken aback by it when he said that-- I was like, "what do you mean, I'm one person, I don't like that word "parts" you make me sound broken or whatever". He said it was normal that all of us have parts of ourselves, but I don't know what he REALLY MEANT. I don't really get the context he was speaking about. I have nothing to relate it to, and I don't like to think of myself as being anything less than a unified person.

Now I'm not afraid that I have DID or anything like that because I know that I don't. I suppose I'm just afraid that he might think I have something else wrong with me than originally assessed or that I have more trauma to discuss than I have been doing. Anyone understand this? Do I have something to be worried about?