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Originally Posted by imapatient
To expose my density, but is this DID stuff?
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No, it's ego states. A simplistic distinguishing mark of DID is that the alters take over and you "lose time" and don't know what they were up to when you were "gone". With ego states, you're always there and they don't take over. There are probably all gradations in between.
Here is a good site on ego state therapy:
http://www.clinicalsocialwork.com/overview.html
And here's an excerpt that I think explains nicely what ego states are:
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[Paul] Federn believed that the personality was not simply a collections of perceptions, cognitions, and affects, but that these organized into clusters or patterns, which he called ego states. An ego state may be defined as an organized system of behavior and experience whose elements are bound together by some common principle.
When one of these states is invested with ego energy, it becomes "the self" in the here and now. We say it is "executive," and it experiences the other states (if it is aware of them at all) as "he," "she," or "it," because they are then currently invested with object energy.
Ego states may be large and include all the various behaviors and experiences activated in one's occupation. They may be small, like the behaviors and feelings elicited in school at the age of 6. They may represent current modes of behavior and experiences or, as with hypnotic regression, include many memories, postures, feelings, etc. that were apparently learned at an earlier age. They may be organized into different dimensions. For example, an ego state may be built around the age of 10. Another one may represent patterns of behavior toward father and authority figures and thus overlap on experiences with father at the age of 10.
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