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Originally Posted by Gr3tta
Absolutely. I was hopeful that there came a point in therapy where an alter could come out, the host would go away, or to a therapy agreed upon safe place, so the alter could share their story to the therapist. That was my personal question. Not speaking for anyone else.
Edit: Silly me. I'll ask my T!  I like the jump the gun though. |
Im guessing what you are looknig for is called co consciousness. some people who have co consciousness set up a "safe place" as you call it. in fact its actually a therapy technique called visualizations where a therapist and a client can mentally make a safe place for the smaller alters to stay while the rest of the system deals with the harder stuff. your therapist can help you do that.
unless the host was co conscious they did in your words ...go away ....when the alters are in control.
everyones system is different in how much co consciousness they have some people have the co consciousness ability to feel dissociated but yet still have limited awareness when their alters are in control example like being a back seat driver, or watching as if watching a movie, floating on the ceiling, becoming like a wall or the mattress.... there are many different ways a dissociative person can be co conscious with their alters......
before the publication of the DSM 5 all levels of co consciousness was considered to be lopped in with the DID category. now those that are mostly co conscious (very little memory loss/amnesia when alters are in control) is called Other Specified Dissociative Disorder. those with mixed systems (sometimes co conscious sometimes not) and those that have no co consciousness (dissociative Amnesia symptoms) are called DID.