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Originally Posted by CrispApple
I understand why your posts are delayed but it doesn't make it any less frustrating.  I also think many times your posts are overlooked because the threads get read and yours isn't there and people may not realize you have posted and don't go back and read again.Do you see a therapist for your perfectionism?If not,it may be helpful if you do,I also am a perfectionist and for me it sometimes interferes with the way I interact with others and causes problems,which you probably experience as well.
Your reply here surprised me.If you go back and read all your posts you will see how it seems so contradictary to what you normally post.Doesn't sound like you at all.I was expecting you to say that encouraging seperateness increases the chance for false memories,can cause false alters,ficticious disorder imposed by others,your location doesn't encourage trying to seperate alters,etc.
I am not a professional but my personal opinion is with DID it's wrong that "the task of the therapist is to help patients seperate this confusing blend into seperate entities".That is just so contradictary to the purpose and the goal of DID therapy.And I am really surprised you didn't say that could cause false alters.I don't understand how that is any dfferent than automatic writing,system mapping,and all the other things that you have so adamantly given your opinion on.
As I said,go back and read all your posts.This reply just doesn't mesh with them at all. |
yes I reread my posts frequently and no what I posted here does not conflict with my past posts heres why......
staying on topic of the thread the book as related to DID does not mean to dissociate your self into alters. if you get the book and read the whole book not just one paragraph taken out of context, you will see the book means to take everything that is going on and match them with the sides of you that they go with.
example .....my thoughts and emotions going every which way.... Im angry, excited, sad, want to die, so many voices, so many thoughts, cant make sense of this why doesnt it stop, I'm hungry, Im tired, I want to go do this go do that...
now adding the book paragraph....
when I am red I am feeling angry so I know the thought of being angry belongs to the red side of me.
When I am Rainy I feel sad, depressed, tired so I know the thoughts of sadness and wanting to die is Rainy.
When I am Sunny I feel happy, excited and hungry so I know those thoughts and emotions are Sunny.
see what I mean the book taken in context of what the paragraph means, does not mean to become an alter, it means to separate what is going on in ones thoughts and behaviors and matching them up with what you know about yourself and your identities while remaining fully in the present moment/ not dissociated.
the rest of your reply I will answer by pm so as to not take this thread off topic of helping elevated soul understand the book they are working in.