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Originally Posted by amandalouise
dont worry about creating another alter thats not what therapeutic containment means.
Therapeutic containment is a therapy technique that is used with people who have all kinds of mental disorders and problems, not just DID and talking with alters...
therapeutic containment is using your imagination (some people /locations call this dissociating because a normal form of dissociation is daydreaming/ using imagination) using this normal form of dissociation that all dissociatives know how to do... imagine what type of box, jar, metal what ever container that it would take to hold that fear you are feeling...
dissociatives usually automatically know how to do this, they automatically know how to imagine safe rooms, safe boxes, safe planets...what ever makes them feel safe. its the basic building blocks of a person who becomes DID. they imagine their self out of the abusive situation and safely floating on the ceiling, safe in the walls where ever they feel safe...you can find your safe network by reading between the lines...look at what you wrote above about how you feel fear then you switch and fear gets pushed aside.. whats the switching action for you, what is between you feeling fear and you the alter...
if you cant find that safe spot between you and your alter that automatically happens then think about it in the way that non DID's use therapeutic containment. what can you place that feeling of fear into that will allow you to feel safer..
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Maybe I'm not the one who is able to do this containment. There is no space between the alters. I am either John or Keven or the little girl. That's it. My safe place is my alters. If a frighten alter is out and he and I feel overwhelmed by the fear than he steps back and I step up. Or someone completely different steps up and we both get pushed back. That is how I avoid bad feelings. Their not in a box their in an alter. My t suggested that I imagine a place to put my bad feelings. She asked me to put them aside so we could discuss the reason for the feelings. It makes sense but the bad feelings are not mine they belong to one of the other alters. Maybe I can ask the alter with the bad feelings to set them aside. Like in a box or something, Maybe that is where I am getting stuck. Thanks