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Originally Posted by jwabf
Memories vs parts. I can relate. I struggle to figure this out too. Sometimes I want to sit on the floor and hold on to someone's leg - my husband, my T. And I wonder if that is a part or a memory of what used to give me comfort or maybe both. I did it once to my husband and his experience was that I was "little" and he was a "parent". It made him feel weird - of course I was close to being hopitalised so I wasn't in a good place.
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I only thought of wanting to run into a corner and hide as a memory because once I said it out loud it was ok to want to do that but we didn't have to. If that thought was a part she would have been viewed differently by us. It is difficult to explain in words. It was more a thought and not a part. Also knowing it is ok to have these thoughts, and that may be a product of trauma helps me to not be so freaked out by it now. I will see if this insight applies to other thoughts of a similar nature.