Sigh. Looks like there is more going on with respect to this thread than I know (e.g., this was a specific question for a particular person?)

> she was put out front for like 2 decades and therefore thinks she is all there is.

Ah. Kind of like how a person could (in theory) be raised in an environment where they never hear about tigers or cows and so they don't have a reason to believe in them.

Like how the majority of people who present with DID don't have clear cut alters, anyway, they have 'transient windows of diagnosability'. The therapist needs to persuade the client that explaining their life in terms of 'not me's' is the thing to do... Then one has the thing of trying to come to grips with 'not me's' that one wasn't aware of before. And the current theory has it that the 'not me's' were there all along just waiting to be dug out.

There are thoughts / feelings / emotions that one isn't so aware of... Like how one can divert ones attention from other things that are hard, too.