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Old Mar 16, 2018, 12:38 AM
Amyjay Amyjay is offline
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Sometimes our therapist helps us to get grounded so we can switch back if we switch in therapy and sometimes she just carries on the discussion with whoever has presented. It depends on the circumstances. We are still in stage 1 of DID therapy so we are learning about the system and learning grounding techniques. It isn't any good to us if a terrified one switches out and can't talk so T always helps us get grounded again when that happens. But sometimes like yesterday an alter comes out who T really needs to talk with so she just goes with it unless whoever is there is distressed.
We don't find it manipulative, it just helps us do the therapy things that we need to do. have you talked about it with your T?
Oh, and we take things to therapy to help with grounding like that, I have some really nice smelly things that help me. We also sometimes take things that help other alters to be there, like yesterday we took in old family photos that trigger certain ones in us to come out, and that is why that alter was able to be there and talk to the T for the first time. T asked us to take the photos again next time. To do the same thing I suppose. But we don't find it manipulative, we find it helpful, so we give consent for it. If you don't like using things to trigger certain ones you can tell your T you aren't comfortable doing that. We didn't use to like it but we agree to it now because we have more trust and because we are actively trying different ways of getting the therapy work done.
Thanks for this!
abusedtoy