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Originally Posted by kaliope
has your t talked to you about the possibility for dissociative identity disorder because that very much sounds like you had a little, a child alter come out. it happens to me many times in therapy, mostly a six year old and a 16 year old that is suicidal and hates living. they come out and talk to my therapist all the time. it is very important to have a therapist who specializes in trauma and dissociative disorders to get proper treatment. i spent three years with a doc that said it was going on and did nothing to treat it or my ptsd and it only managed to increase my anxiety so much i could barely function. now working with a specialist and letting these parts of me talk i am finally putting together to pieces of my past and feeling safer in life.
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Thanks for this. My t has spoken about me dissociating and she knows a lot about dissociation. She has thought for a long time that I dissociate, but only in that I go off sometimes when we're talking and I don't know what I've been thinking about. This only happened to me this week though so we've not had much chance to discuss it and now we are both away. I saw a book on her desk when I was there this time about splitting and wondered if she had got that because of me. I don't know how much she is a trauma specialist, but she has told me that her specialism is dissociation. So I guess the two are intertwined. This has been a relatively new aspect of my therapy so needs some discussion. It has only come up since last June and really September when I had that flashback. Then nothing till now. The little me part is often discussed/referred to. It's the first time that I completely felt I was her and kind of lost my adult self -she was still there but I couldn't find my way back to her. We have a toy that represents little me that we bring in to therapy, though I hate her. So I guess we are beginning to work on this.