My T and I were talking about my intrusive thoughts and she asked, “can you draw that part of yourself?”…I came up with a large dark green person.

She then asked me to draw the part of me that opposes the large dark green person. I came up with a little red person sitting twisting her hands in her lap. This is the aspect of me that struggles to fight negative thinking, depression…etc.

Since then we have also added a little blue person that represents me as a child.

Assigning colors and personalities to the various aspects of me has enabled us too communicate better. We have discovered that a little bit of good lives in the negative thoughts and sometimes, they help me though the day. The small part of me that struggles to keep my head above water is actually much stronger than I had imagined. I know all this sounds a little strange, but assigning an identity to the various parts of myself gave us a whole new language…the results have been wonderful.