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Old Mar 01, 2016, 04:02 PM
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Originally Posted by amandalouise View Post
no you are not wrong. it is for this reason that here in america treatment providers are not allowed to "call out" an alter directly. and can not focus treatment directly on any .....one..... alter. here treatment focuses on stabilization, grounding, working together, developing communication,...
things that will not promote another mental disorder called fictitious disorder imposed on self (some locations call this false memory syndrome, creating false alters for attention of others or their treatment provider.

that said sometimes a person needs to be separated from their alters. thats the premise of what DID is.... and the reason extremely abused at a young aged child was able to survive \live to become that adult in treatment.

DID is a mental disorder where the brain through the use of dissociation has put up mental walls to separate those memories, emotions of trauma that the very young child was unable to handle. those parts of the very young child function completely separate from the child, they have their own way of being, their own jobs, purposes, reasons for being.

then over time of healing when the child becomes an adult and through their own healing process ( either by their self or with a treatment provider )is better able to handle things on their own, information, memories, emotions are shared (co consciousness)

or in limited co consciousness situations where co consciousness does not develop very much (like what happened with me) the separation between the alters and between the alters and those they reside with in stops and all become one whole person again due to the alters jobs, purposes, reasons for being is no longer there.

my point is the separation is already there. my location doesnt .....encourage .....it, but its recognized as already being there and is just part of what the disorder is.


Thank you for your input. I think I do understand the origin of dissociation and DID. I see it as an automatic defense mechanism whose origins are in childhood and which is set off at a time before a childs personality and separate essential sense of self have been been developed. It is a defense mechanism that is a protective unconscious reaction to trauma that is so severe and threatening that it cannot be tolerated or accepted by the child's mind.

I want to ask you about what you call co-consciousness. when you use this term are you referring to now being aware of what it was that your alters expereinced , that is, the initial traumas that automatically created them?