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Originally Posted by phoenix7
alters and parts are they one and the same?
Ive read recently that they are different - that alters have their own personalities but parts dont they are just different aspects of yourself that you call up to help when needed -
its very confusing
I have blanks - i used to have conversations inside - recently someone made them quiet and then these things happened....
There has been silence or a long time now apart from the part of me that says bad things- now i am disassociating...
each time worse than the last....
I went to an ATM to get money to pay my sister back what i borrowed from her and i realised later that i must have walked away without taking the money so there goes $50 i cant afford to lose
the second one i apparently put my glasses in with someones washing at work ..... i dont remember - i remember having them - then they were gone
the third time i almost pulled into a three lane traffic on a major road through a red light - but i realised - woke up? just before i hit the traffic.....
what do you do if these things happen to you?
this is the last two days and im afraid what will happen next....
I have no control over the blanks or when they happen....
so parts....alters.. the same or different...
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on re reading yours and my posts I noticed another word that sometimes is used interchanbably....
word from your post.....disassociation.
here where I am we have two words that are almost spelled the same but are different but when reading online I notice some people use them to mean the same thing.
here where I am ....
disassociaiton ( pronounced dis association) is not doing something on purpose.....I disassociated the phone conversation (meaning I purposely stopped talking and hung up the phone)
dissociation (no letter a after the letter s and pronounced dis-so- see - A- shon) is things like spacing out, feeling emotionally numb because something out of our control happened. example I dissociated last night at dinner... meaning I felt numb and spaced out last night at dinner.
what tips me off on which word is meant online is re reading the post. in other words I put the word in context with the posters situation, if they mention a trigger and feeling numb and spaced out I know their word means my word dissociation. if the post says something to the affect that they purposely stopped something then I know they mean the other word.
its a location thing with these two words (dis association and dissociation) my location treats them as meaning different things.
your treatment provider can tell you whether these two words mean the same thing where you are or if they like mine use the official dictionary/ psychological definitions.