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Originally Posted by Claritytoo
My question isn't who is talking or thinking. I know my parts. I have three seperate groups, young parts, older parts, and the parts that function in the world. Each group knows who is out. Sometimes someone from a different group doesn't know much about the one who is out but that is fine. My question is, If I stopped having parts, Who would do the thinking? How would I be able to intellectually assess things? My parts are thoughts with distinct ways, perceptions and preferences. If my parts aren't there to think. Who is thinking? How are things being assessed?
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Originally Posted by Claritytoo
My question is, If I stopped having parts, Who would do the thinking? How would I be able to intellectually assess things? My parts are thoughts with distinct ways, perceptions and preferences. If my parts aren't there to think. Who is thinking? How are things being assessed?
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the collective you would be ding the thinking.....
when person is born (im talking biologically not mentally) from a mother and a father that baby is one whole person. then somewhere along the way the child goes through some sort of extreme trauma. then what is that one whole childs mind is mentally split into many different parts of this child that eventually form their own identities with their own jobs, purposes, reasons for being this way. when their jobs, purposes, reasons for being created is no longer needed they again join back in together to form one whole person again. everything each of the identities are becomes part of the whole...
example when I was born to my biological parents I was one whole individual. then at a very young age I was abused in the most horrific ways in which I being so young was unable to handle.
everything that made up who I was as a whole person (my emotions, memories, happy events, sad events, horrific events.....) everything that made up who and what I was, became separated and each separated part of me (my memories, emotions events.......) all became individual identities with in me.
through therapy and other treatments I became more stable and able to handle what had happened to me and how to handle my present life. since each of my separate identities jobs, purposes reasons for being was no longer needed each of those identities merged back together with me to become one whole person again.
those identities didnt go away they just went back to the form in which I biologically began this life before all the trauma.
As separate identities I did not know how to cry. now that Rainy is merged back together with me I can now cry, because she became one with me.
As separate identities I could not enjoy laying out in the sunshine. I felt too exposed. but once Sunny merged back together with me I could lay out in the sunshine.
once integration takes place everything that is you and the other parts will become one whole person again. who will be the host in which has these thoughts, feelings and such as the collective whole ....well only you and your treatment providers can answer that...
for me it was the host (me) in which all the alters merged into to become one whole person again.