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Originally Posted by innocentjoy
That's not what I get from this at all. To me the infromation is trying to stress that all of the parts make up one whole person. Therefore, when the first alter is created, walls are built up between the experience/job of the alter and the other parts of the original. So altogether, they make up one whole person. The alter isn't created from nothing to add to the person's whole being, it is sectioned off from who the whole being was. So the part that others would call the original, isn't technically the original anymore because part of who they were has been sectioned off to become an alter. Each time another alter is created, it is the same thing: walls being put up to stop conscious awareness of certain things (memories, jobs, emotions, etc.) The idea is to get people to understand that the 'original' as others call it, is not actually the whole person he/she was before the trauma. They are now parts of the whole as well.
As for your goal for therapy, most therapists want to help their patients break down some (or all) of the barriers that are making parts necessary. You want to become a whole person, with all of your parts either integrated, or communicating with each other so that you can access any jobs, experience, emotions or memories needed to function well in life.
Many therapists feel the need to stress that all personalities/alters are part of who you are, no one is a whole person, they each play a part in your system. I think that is where they are coming from, looking at it holistically. One of the roadblocks in therapy that people come up with is that they can't identify some alters as being part of who they are, and they need to overcome this in order to bring them back into a highly functioning person. So this sounds like they are trying to prevent that from being too ingrained in people's minds as they learn about their different parts.
I hope that makes sense.
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yes the sum of all alters make up one whole person. here where I live and work the term created means the same thing that you understand...the mind puts up walls between the person that was traumatized and the alters. here where I live and work alters are "created" I dont mean they become out of nothing and added to the system/person with DID...
the brain is an amazing thing. it makes it possible for human beings be "creative" in normal situations this creativity called dissociation allows a person to dream, day dream, space out when bored or under stress, numb their self or even go to the extreme of being creative by shutting off those traumatic events, feelings, memories. (in your words put up walls) around them and what causes them to be triggered.
some where, some time after the person goes through such a chaotic, stressful, triggering....the persons creative brain using the creativity skill of dissociation these walled off parts of memories, feelings events become alternate personalities that have their own jobs, purposes, reasons for being...in essence start interacting with in the internal system of alters and the outside world, just like a human being.
this is how Im using the term created. not to mean the alters just suddenly appeared out of the wild blue yonder to be added.
a person starts out in this world by being one whole person and then through the creative process of dissociation the one whole person is creatively divided into smaller parts called the host and alters.
Im sorry if my language usage is different than yours and may have caused you some upset. I was just using my locations and cultures terms for the dissociative process.