[Crew]

Hi
The 4th journal I found this was written in, when I was first dx with MPD it was called back in the day..."Until the hurt child within is given a voice, they will clamor for attention--by giving me headaches, irritable bowels, back pains, and bouts of depression and anxiety, or by repeating patterns of abuse againist ourselves and others...Articulating the pain of the hurt inner people "alters", and feeling tenderly toward them are absolutely necessary in the healing process I have found...so far and Choosing to still work through it with all the pain ahead still...
ThaCrew

[JudeeB]

I found that to be absolutely true also!

I realized early on that the alters were the traumatized ones who needed therapy and healing. They had protected me from the worst of it and needed help. So I didn't resent all the sessions where they were the focus not me. I had my time when new stuff would come out and I had to process what I had heard. It was a balance and my T was very perceptive of who needed what.

Through my T and the writings and drawings I got to know the young ones and was a bit sad and happy for them as they were integrated. Part of that process was always done with visualization where I could thank them.

Without them, without that coping mechanism I may not have survived at all and now I am very glad I did.

Thank you for sharing this.

Good thought, Good insight
And for us it seems like just when we feel we have "worked thru it all..."
something else jumps up and catches us off guard and we have to go back to the beginnings of listening, sorting it all out, comforting, reassuring......

But, we have found we want to LIVE one more day.