That's great, Pat. I got you thinking. Not so very long ago, I first had the idea of PTSD floated by my therapist. Chronic PTSD, from childhood experience. It took me a year (and a mugging) to accept that idea. It was probably a couple years ago somebody first suggested the idea of ego states to me. Told me to look for clues, like the sense of "lost time", or changes in writing style/vocabulary. It took a lot of thinking, but the thinking came together, eventually. It came together into a package that allowed me to re-integrate those other chunks of my personality/ego. It's ongoing, the sense of reintegration, but my self-awareness feels huge. I feel transformed. It's hard to describe.

It does take time. No doubt. It takes time, and it takes shape.

Lar