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Old Feb 11, 2016, 09:43 PM
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Originally Posted by lucidity11 View Post
I haven't been to therapy in over a year, I think, anyway, I am reluctant to engage my parts like I did when in therapy. It sort of like how we were before we knew. We are aware of us so it makes it easier to communicate without thinking we are nuts but I feel afraid to fully acknowledge us as parts. I am concerned that we might become dysfunctional in the world. We may be getting a new job and we need to be how we have been in the past. We need the worker parts to go to work. That used to happen automatically. But recently that hasn't been the case. In fact the worker parts don't really want to go to work. But we need the money. I don't see us working for a long time just for a few months. Unless the workers like the new job. Than maybe they won't mind going to work. I don't know. I keep thinking if we start thinking of ourselves as a system with many parts we will get lost again. There will be no order and everyone will be coming and going. I don't want parts to think they shouldn't be able to express themselves but I also don't want us to be seen. And too much switching out loud will cause trouble. If we get this job we will really need to decide if we are willing to work or not. And if we are willing to work that the parts who are the ones who go to work will need to focus and get the job done. That is what I think
I cant answer to how things will work out with you but I can tell you with me and my treatment providers when I was worried about things like this...

my treatment provider told me nothing after diagnosis and in treatment was going to happen to me and my alters that wasnt already been happening before I received the diagnosis. if anything because i would be in treatment learning new coping tools ground and other therapy related things my internal system and I would improve not get worse. here in my location treatment for dissociative problems focus on tools that will enable the host and alters to not have so many dissociative problems, dissociate less because the triggers associated with dissociating gets addressed and taken care of.

example rainy would take control and act out in public any time there was a rain storm in therapy she learned what rain storms were and why all the noise. after that she would take control during storms but no longer act out. she would hold her blanket, close her eyes and wait it out.

when I took care of the traumatic event that had to do with storms I was better able to stay calm and stay grounded rather than dissociate.

only you can decide whether to enter therapy for me it was well worth it.