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Old Jan 06, 2016, 11:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Sarah1985 View Post
I'm confused and might have missed this in previous threads, so I apologize. When you talk about parts, do you have DID, or is it a type of therapy with hypothetical parts?
Sarah: no, I don't have DID. My T practices Internal Family System, which means looking at the different parts of our personality, and understanding how they feel, accepting them, and ultimately enabling our Self to "lead the orchestra" of our parts. It's as simple as having one part want to be on a diet and lose weight, while another part loves to eat sweets and doesn't have any will power at all. In IFS, we would isolate the parts, talk about them, and get the Self to have compassion for them. I find IFS very freeing and useful. The parts are not hypothetical. There IS a part who feels each way. I hope I clarified it somewhat for you.
Thanks for this!
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