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sometimes people kind of split them off so they have different inner kids that hold those different aspects

</div></font></blockquote><font class="post">alexandra, this sounds similar to ego states? T and I worked with one of my ego states last Fall, a little girl of about 4 years old who held some newly recovered abusive memories from my childhood. I guess I just split her off back then because of the intensity of what was happening. She also had some other unique memories that were from that time period but were not related to the abuse. That fascinated me. For example, she was the one who spent hours every day building houses of cards by herself. From my reading, I don't believe ego states are considered as dissociated as multiple personalities (apologies if I am not using the current terminology for that). This particular ego state of mine is more integrated now since I worked in therapy at processing the memories. For a while, though, she was so vivid and separate to me, I would see her lurking around the corner, and shadowing me as I went places. I worked in therapy to get my controlling ego state, the one I call "me," to nurture her, to rescue her when she needed it, and to give her the love she needed. I found ego state therapy really helpful and would like to do more in the future.