for ugly duckling... what is anp/ ep....

here in my location ANP stands for Apparently Normal Part and EP stands for Emotional Part...

here in my location it is believed among mental health system that all human beings have normal parts of self, anyone whether they are normal, mentally or physically challenged can have these parts of self.

here's a completely normal non dissociative situation....

Im in a meeting and someone says something I dont like. my mood switches from being happy go lucky, everythings fine to automatically reacting.... how dare you say that, that did not happen rant rant rant stomp out the door slamming the door. (emotional part of self) then i calm down and go back to appearing to be ok when a coworker walks up to me and says wow are you ok, and I smile and say yea just blowing off some steam I guess. (apparently normal part)

in some people this can happen related to dissociation.

here in my location dissociation is a normal response to a negative or positive trigger. using the same situation as above switching into these parts of self would be related to dissociation if during the situation I was feeling my dissociation symptoms of numbness, spaciness, and disconnected from myself or others. its like a severity thing.

in some people these switching into their ANP and EP parts are more distinct, defined. some locations call this Structural Dissociation\ polyfragmented Dissociative Disorder.

My own treatment provider does not use that term because America has changed over to a new listing of diagnosis's. America does not have a mental disorder called Polyfragmented Dissociative Disorder /Polyfragmented DID, here alters are now treated as equals.

but there are mental disorders now here in america that do include dissociative symptoms/disorders/ problems, which is where this ANP/EP\ structural dissociation model is still being used in my location for example with depression and PTSD, and in the personality category (borderline, advoidant and other personality disorders)

hope that has helped.