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Originally Posted by bpd mess
i don't have DID either, but my t talks about parts. she described t to me like an orchestra. i picture it as the loud part of my personality is like the tuba, the shy part is like the picalo, then there are the child part, the parent part and the stubborn part...... for me right now, the child part is acting up, so the parent part (which i barely have) is trying to calm it down. i think it's some of the IFS stuff people mention. http://www.selfleadership.org/ |
Thanks for the link. I have no idea what IFS is...I'll give the website a good read over.
I don't know if I like that explanation because (and this is probably just my own hang up about it), it seems to infantilize me. I am one person who acts in different ways towards different people, different situations, different circumstances. It doesn't make me any less "whole". I think I was slightly offended by his remark because it seemed to imply that I was less than whole and in some way behaving "inappropriately" or otherwise unbecoming, or "not well enough" which I equate to not up to par.
Perhaps I don't understand it very well.
Maybe this conceptual framework is better suited to people with different types of problems than I have.
Thanks
