Thank you for the replies - sorry I have not been online in a few weeks. I've been throwing myself into anything that could help my daughter.

We do suspect my daughter of having some type of sexual trauma. She has no memory of it but says that in her memory room (a part of her brain that has tunnels she goes into to find memories) there is one section that is surrounded by a force field and is guarded by the mean one. She says that holds the bad memory. (She has all the symptoms of sexual trauma in other ways and both our therapist and psychiatrist state they feel she has had some type of sexual trauma).

We have tried to show kindness to the mean one, but he absolutely terrifies her. She has not slept alone since therapy started (November). There is also someone in her mind who protects her and he gets into fights with the mean one defending her (I'm not naming their names, but all the people in her mind have names, different ages and skin color). There is another man in her mind but we're not sure what purpose he has. There are various animals, but the majority are nice and encouraging to her. There is a little girl (she says she is her at age 4 or 5) who shows up frequently. When her protector takes my daughter away to be safe, the little one emerges. Since we homeschool, we have had to keep two sets of lesson plans depending on who is present for schoolwork (math especially - reading is not so bad, we just change the level of books we read). It's complicated and sometimes I feel very alone trying to parent under challenging circumstances. I don't want to do the wrong thing.