my alters took control in therapy just like they did in other aspects of my life...

with me Dissociation is/was a reaction to my being triggered....no matter what part of my life ...academic, social, work, family and even during therapy if I got triggered/came up to something I could not handle my alters would take control and handle that situation based upon what their jobs, purposes, reasons for being were....

examples ....if I was at work and got stressed out/ could not handle something that was going on at work the alters who's job, purpose, reason for being was to take care of my work related problem areas would take control and do that for me...

if I was in an intimate moment with someone and we were doing something that triggered me/I couldnt handle the sexualized alters would take control and do that for me.

if I was in therapy and we were discussing something/hard/triggering/ which ever alter who dealt with what ever we were discussing would take control and take care of that part of the discussion for me.

when I was first diagnosed with DID I would worry about the fact that I could never remember what went on in therapy because I would dissociate (an alter would take control) during hard or triggering discussions but then my treatment provider explained to me that nothing happens after diagnosis that didnt already happen before diagnosis., that its pretty standard /typical/ usual that people with DID dissociate during therapy simply because of the mechanics of what DID is....having a special type of alters that take control to handle what ever the person can not handle on their own.

after that I didnt worry about when an alter would take control and I could not remember my therapy sessions. my therapist and I took care of this problem by recording my sessions. this way any time I needed to know what happened during therapy all I needed to do was ask and my therapist would pull out her equipment and we would watch the recording of the session in question.

my reply above was in relation to the wording of "letting an alter do something"

I didnt "let" my alter do anything. they just did what they did according to what their jobs, purposes reasons for being was. there was no my controlling what they did.