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Originally Posted by Millitoria
Thanks for your response AmandaLouise.
A lot of what you have written makes sense to me. When I was in therapy a few years ago we did some 'child within' work. Is it possible to have more than one child within? I mean like at different ages? So the one who draws pictures, that is the one called Emily and she feels pretty young. But there is also an angry teenager with a different name and personality, but who I still feel connected to.
I don't know, this whole thing is confusing and scary for me.
I haven't been able to bring myself to talk my doctor about it yet, but I have asked for a referral to mental health services that she is arranging for me, and I sent her a letter which was a copy of one of my previous posts. She didn't mention it when I saw her but she should have got it and read it by now. So I am hoping that will prompt her to ask me about it as I simply can't get the words out to start the conversation by myself. When I try I end up blanking out and tend to come out of the appointment being told I am doing well but not having talked about what is really going on. This is not helpful.
Anyway, thank you very much for taking the time to read and reply to this. It is very helpful to me and I really appreciate it.
Milli
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can there be more than one "child with in" Some treatment providers around here believe so and others I have talked to believe the child with in is like a limitless, rope that begins with a persons birth and continues through out a persons life time..
see the child with in is a state of mind...
for example when you think about one of your holidays. now think about how you felt on that holiday when you were different ages..
lets pick something everyone can relate to...a birthday party or ringing in the new year..
now when you think about these special occasions what kind of feelings and memories come to mind, now notice how you are feeling at this moment. are you feeling like you did in that memory of that special occasion? did you suddenly get a happy feeling like you did when you were that child on that special occasion years ago?
thats what the child with in is. it can be any age, any emotions because its you and your feelings of when you were a child.. now think about how you would represent that child with in if you were drawing this child with in feelings.
thats what the child with in is, its time less, limitless and you can get this feeling like a child any time any where and you can put names to these child like feelings about you when you were many different ages. with this child with in concept the only limits are the limits you put on it your self
some people decide they are going to only contribute their child like feelings/wants/needs to one child with in image of their self when they were one age and others contribute their child with in feelings/wants/needs to many different ones based on how old they were when they had these same child like feelings/wants/needs.
for example when I am feeling happy child like feelings I tell my wife, the 5 yr old me is having fun in the creek (because I am feeling like I did on that day long ago when I was 5 and wading in the creek) when Im very angry and just want to scream holler and kick I say great here goes the 3 year old me again because when I was three I threw temper tantrums every time I got mad. the two feelings are so conflicting and different so I naturally dont contribute the angry me emotions to the happy me emotions and the other way around. Its all me and its me at different ages.