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Old May 19, 2007, 02:15 AM
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ShadowsinTheDay said:
Sun Rise: Thanks for getting the thread back on track, and offering your opinion, I thought I had l8st this thread for a minute there. Also, This quote from you,

"My ego states never take me over, they are experienced more as "she" than as "I." "

Isn't it the other way around? Like "I" are ego states cuz they feel like you, and DID, feeles like someone else I guess? Just wondering.

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Just quoting again from above:
When one of these [ego] states is invested with ego energy, it becomes “the self” in the here and now. We say it is “executive,” and it experiences the other states (if it is aware of them at all) as “he,” “she,” or “it,” because they are then currently invested with object energy.
This is how I experience it, with my executive being "I" and the other ego states being "she." For example, my little girl ego state did such and such, she felt this, etc. I've heard that in DID, the person actually switches identities and becomes those other alters, but maybe this is wrong. It gets confusing, and probably different people experience it different ways! In therapy, my therapist did ask me sometimes to have conversations with my little girl ego state. I asked her stuff and she responded to me. I, the executive state, would say my part of the conversation outloud so my therapist could hear it. Then I would listen for the response of my ego state, then say her response to my therapist so he could hear. I always reported it to him in third person, she says, "blah, blah, blah." But my little girl ego state never spoke directly to him. And I think in DID, can't the alters sometimes speak directly for themselves, without the intermediary of an executive?
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