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Old Feb 14, 2017, 08:30 PM
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Originally Posted by amandalouise View Post
thats a cool idea...though it wouldnt have worked for me in the same way it will for you.... I didnt have co consciousness with most of my alters and those I did have co consciousness with it wasnt a situation where I would know them very well, it was more like something would cause me to dissociate (feel numb, spaced out, disconnected...) and then the alter would be taking care of that which caused me to dissociate.

for example heres what would have happened for ....me.... if I had tried to give my alters a song that represented who and what they were....

if there was a major storm going on that would trigger my dissociation responses, which would cause Rainy to take control. then she would deal with the storm by making sure we got home our of the storm, into our jammies and wrapped in a blanket.

the song that would represent this would be a song where a storm was represented (lots of rain, thunder and lightening sound affects) which of course would then trigger me into dissociating which would result in the alter taking control shutting off the music, get us into jammies and wrapped into a blanket.

on the reverse side of this my treatment provider and I through the charting process learned that Rainy and my other alters already had their own songs, Rainys was "this little heart of mine let it shine let it shine let it shine" (she would add to it the words and chase away the rain) and also the song "its raining its pouring the old dog (substitution for man) is snoring". Thelma's favorite song was "Rocky top", some of my alters loved new kids on the block, cher, debbie gibson and b*witched.

suggestion maybe have your alters help you pick the songs too, that way you wont have to do the youtube binge thing if you dont want to and who knows they might already have their own songs that you can use to represent them.
I don't have co con with anything close to the majority of others. I'm just focusing on the ones in my somewhat extended group. I have a mostly decent amount of co con with them.

Ah. Gotcha. The song you would have designated to her would have brought her up front and center and in a way that would have been all around a not so good situation. Good on you for having the insight and awareness to not set that in motion. I want to add also, the old dog part bit got a chuckle out of me. We have a few who switch up words and L.P. has a dog thing so dogs often make their way into our rewritten song lyrics.

As for the youtube binge, I'm kinda diggin' on the sporadic music binge. Went surfing for an hour or two last night. Discovered I really like bass heavy trap music. I didn't even know what trap music was a few days ago. Heh. Learn somethin' new every day. Oh but for sure. I already got W and N's attention with this and one is wanting to decorate envelopes for the song lyrics written out and they'll have her input and I'm sure it won't be just the two of them by the time it's said and done. Perspective is good, imho.

-Tay
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(dx list: DID/PTSD, ASD, GAD, OCD, LMNOP)
Thanks for this!
amandalouise