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Originally Posted by OliverB
I am confused still. I think i am an anp but i cant remember the EPs, my therapist said something about five, but i only now one. Who told him about four i dont even know?
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I dont know your location so my suggestion is to talk with your treatment provider, reason I say this for you is because some locations do not go by the therapy ....theory .... approach... (which over wording your location goes by) for structural dissociation (which is what the labeling anp and ep's are used)
example my own location and treatment provider do not use the labeling of anp and ep. where I am we go by all alters can both perform normal activities and have their own emotions too. Rainy could dress herself, feed herself, and other normal things but she also felt and expressed the emotions of sadness, depression, grief. Thelma my sexualized alter not only encompassed the feeling/ emotions of love, sensuality/ sexuality, she also could form friendships, dress herself, eat drink, smoke a cigarette just like normal people do.... all of my alters were this way. this is called "sense of agency" here where I am.
here was my problem at one point..... I was reading stuff about structural dissociation where the labeling Anp and Ep was being used and trying to fit myself into those. then my treatment provider had to do alot of straightening things out for me. she told me those labels are rarely if ever used now because its been discovered that even alters previously labeled Anp have emotions and those previously labeled Ep its been discovered that they can perform normal activities, in other words both can function completely like an individual person can. then she explained the concept of "sense of agency" to me. at that time the term was not yet in the diagnostics but was something treatment providers looked for in people with DID. you might say it was one of the criteria not yet disclosed to the public kind of thing. She told me not to try fitting myself into Anp and Ep because my alters had their own sense of agency not just one or the other.
this put things right with me and stopped my confusion on this that you are going through.
my point ....maybe.... your alters are not just anp and not just ep. (not divided into where you had alters that onll do normal things and then other alters that only emotional) .......maybe .......the alters who are showing normal - ness are also containing emotions too, and ......maybe ......the alters that contain emotions are also able to do normal daily living things too.
just something to think about and consider and maybe talk with your treatment provider about.