I've always called my alters pieces, so didn't what to confuse anyone.

But a very many of my pieces are emotional ones. There are 3 of us that are the main strongest pieces that control our family inside. Last night during T, Elise ( one of the 3 of us, Elise, Monty and James ) laid it all out for T to understand. That it's not all about the memories of what happened to us, but the bottleing in, pushing down into pieces of the emotional memories. We were never aloud to have any emotions, good or bad. Our emotions were always used against us in some way shape or form. She explained that happiness brings pain and hurt. No emotions are safe emotions. She explained that we were afraid of T using our emotions against us. Fear is so great. Today we lost a friend and had cried alone so no one could see us. How do you overcome this? How do you trust someone enough to let them see your emotions? How do you express emotions? And express them in a healthy way? Feel like a baby trying to figure out the world around me.