this may sound weird so first let me tell you how my therapist and I work together - she tells me that my alters are my memories of things that I could not handle as a child so my brian separated those memories and took them out of my awareness. she says my alters are just parts of me - my feelings, emotions ectera...

So now to the problem at hand - how do I and my therapist handle it when those separated fellings, emotions, memories are finally breaking through to my conscious awareness...

first my therapist tells me that this happening is a good thing because it means that I am no longer shutting myself off from remembering and shutting myself off from letting myself feel the things that I am starting to remember.

then second we do things that enable me to express what I am feeling of the content of those separated memories, feelings ect... like drawing, writing in a journal, my calling my therapist voicemail, answering machine and talking on it, sit with a cardboard box, garbage can ect.. across the room and scrunch up old newspaper pages and throwing them across the room into the box, can ...

I do all kinds of things to express and facilitate the memory process depending on what the feelings, memories ecetera is that is trying to come to the surface