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Originally Posted by Claritytoo
Well said. I do think that there is too much negative verbiage regarding the DID condition. I would take a guess that most therapist and patients see "triggered" in a negative light. I like the word Cued. It's the actions after being cued that may be angry, fearful, happy, aggressive etc But the actual mechanism within us isn't bad. In it's day it was instinctual and saved us. And just like the instinctual creation through dissociation, I believe there is some type of internal process to release the system we created. Talk therapy helps to shine light on the existence of the system. But I truly think there is an instinctive process to release the system. If we created it, we have to be able to either continue changing the system or decide to release it. I would most likely have to change mine because I don't have a central self. Sorry I ramble.
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not sure what you mean by..... instinctive process to release the system....
if its what Im thinking ...that people who have DID can release/remove\change their system of alters...here where I live the answer is no not all systems of alters can be changed/released removed...
short version is Alters with DID have a job, purpose, reason for being...if their job, purpose, reason for being is to contain one moment in time /one traumatic event for example all that alter will be able to do is what that job, purpose reason for being is....
example one of my alters job, purpose, reason for being was to protect the secret at all costs, even if that meant self injury\suicide. nothnig my treatment providers and I could do to change\release/remove that alter. we tried contracts, we tried consequence/rewards, we tried self nurturing, you name it. in the end all we could do was inpatient to the mental hospital when that alter was a danger to herself and others. this very dangerous behavior ended only after the alter was integrated\merged back together with me (the aware self) everything they were became me. then since it was my own thoughts and behaviors I was able to finally have control over whether I self harmed or attempted suicide.
everyone's system of alters are set up in what ever ways they needed in order to survive, and if the jobs, purpose's reasons for being does not include such things as being able to change\evolve\be removed / be released/... then its not going to happen. just the way DID type alters work, some are able to do this and some can not.