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Originally Posted by MavriforceK9r
Is there a gatekeeper among your personalities? One that governs all of the others in some ways and makes sure that everything runs smoothly most of the time?
Gatekeepers do more than just keep the peace.
Here is a section from a description of internal personality types
described on a DID Research site.
Gatekeeper: A gatekeeper is an alter who controls switching or access to front, access to inside or certain areas inside, or access to certain alters or memories. The existence of a gatekeeper is highly stabilizing for a system because gatekeepers can to some extent prevent unwanted switching, failure to switch when necessary, or failure to switch to the correct alter. They can help to prevent traumatic memories from bleeding from the alters who hold them to alters who could not yet handle them. They might police the boundaries between subsystems. Because gatekeepers have control over which alters have access to front, they themselves are often or always near front and so witness everything that happens to the system. They might experience vast amounts of abuse and might present as ageless, emotionless, and nonhuman as a way to process this and cope. Gatekeepers may or may not also serve as an internal self helper.
Here is the link to the page...
http://did-research.org/did/alters/functions.html
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no I did not have gate keepers. all my alters took control and did things according to triggers and when I dissociated....
examples
if I got triggered by thunder and lightening I wold have my dissociative symptoms and then the alter who's sense of agency was to handle storms (rainy) would take control, go home, change into dry clothing, then make something to warm up with and a blanket and watch tv, go to bed and so on.
if I got triggered at work, I would have my dissociation symptoms and the alters who's sense of agency was to handle work related problems took control and took care of things.
if I got triggered by something anger related, I would have my dissociative symptoms and then Red the alter who was anger took control and took care of that problem...
because my system was trigger/ dissociation related I did not need any gatekeepers to say who does what, when and how... it was already part of my system in a more natural way called triggers/ dissociation.
there were no gatekeepers, internal self helpers and other internal family system (IFS) therapy terms for my alters. my alters just did things according to their own sense of agency that was part of what triggered me to dissociate.