do you mean something like this....
me at age 38 (plucking a number out of the air , not my real age) during therapy finally discover that Rainy was the first alter that came into being because of being abused in a mine shaft on a very thunderous day.
my teleporting back in time and rescuing Rainy, taking her hand and walking out of the mine shaft with her so that Rainy doesnt have to go through any more abuse that day...
would that change everything...
my treatment provider and I had a great time on this issue. I had just watched sybil where doctor wilber hypnotized sybil and had act out holding hand with each of her alters.
my therapist said wouldnt that be great if it was that easy, hypnotize someone send them back in time to rescue/ accept each alter back...
then she said lets think about this... what trauma caused that alter to come into being?
.. even if we would teleport back in time, even if we could actually hold hands with someone that is not a physical being but a mental being with in our own minds, even if we could go back and rescue them the trauma would have still happened, other wise there would not have been a rainy to go rescue..
so if rainy wasnt created who would have experienced the trauma .... either me or another alter.
our debate on this issue ended with even if I was able to teleport back in time and rescue rainy it would not have changed anything because the abuse still happened either I or another alter would have still gone through the abuse.
I never found ground zero (where and when the abuse first happened or as some people call it the core event/ core alter) but in me I did not have to, my alters just naturally integrated as their sense of agency was no longer needed. I was no longer an under 5 year old child unable to handle issues that came along because of being abused. because I now have all the grounding tools, breathing relaxation and so on to function and handle my adult life all on my own with out dissociation to the extreme of alters taking control the alters just merged back together with me as one whole person again..
by the way there is a therapy for doing this mental version called the inner child therapy. it doesnt and didnt change who and what I am and who and what my alters were. it just helped me to understand the non dissociative parts of me better and help me to develop better coping tools, gave me a way to bring myself out of panic and anxiety, anger and other hard to handle emotions.
your own treatment providers can help you with that.
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