[Restin]

This week at therapy, T suggested that my inner child could act a little more adult. I do have an inner child and inner fantasy world, but I'm pretty smart at living real life, too. I have a strong transference on T that I admitted last month and really touchy about it yet.
Near the end of the session, I got filled with anger at T and said to her that my inner child is very upset about her mentioning to be more adult. About then I began to feel very spacey, like something was pulling me away from real life, kind of like a tractor beam on Star Wars. It seems actually like I'm being dragged mentally into a no-where place. I'm not starting to act out like a child, but can't think about the real world either. I kept thinking I've just got to keep in the real world because I have to get into the car and have to drive home in traffic.
I was trying really hard to stay in real life so I could get home ,and don't know where I would have gone if I had let loose. It was at the end of my hour, and T asked if I could make it, tho I don't know what would have happened if I couldn't. I had a very hard time remembering how to pay at the secretary's desk.
Do any of you do something like this or know what it is that's happening?

[kaliope]

it sounds like it could be...I referred to my inner children for a long time...I was in therapy for a long time...with the wrong t.....he ran away from my trauma history...I got in with a trauma therapist who specialized with dissociation and DID and out came all those inner children that were causing all my anxiety and problems all these years...you really needs a t that specializes in it and understands dissociation....definitely discuss it with t. don't be blown off like I was. I wasted three years of my life.

[amandalouise]

Originally Posted by Restin

This week at therapy, T suggested that my inner child could act a little more adult. I do have an inner child and inner fantasy world, but I'm pretty smart at living real life, too. I have a strong transference on T that I admitted last month and really touchy about it yet.
Near the end of the session, I got filled with anger at T and said to her that my inner child is very upset about her mentioning to be more adult. About then I began to feel very spacey, like something was pulling me away from real life, kind of like a tractor beam on Star Wars. It seems actually like I'm being dragged mentally into a no-where place. I'm not starting to act out like a child, but can't think about the real world either. I kept thinking I've just got to keep in the real world because I have to get into the car and have to drive home in traffic.
I was trying really hard to stay in real life so I could get home ,and don't know where I would have gone if I had let loose. It was at the end of my hour, and T asked if I could make it, tho I don't know what would have happened if I couldn't. I had a very hard time remembering how to pay at the secretary's desk.
Do any of you do something like this or know what it is that's happening?

Im sorry but we can not tell you what this is with in you. what I can tell you is that this can be just about any mental disorder and can be just about any physical health issue.

let me show you what I mean...in mental health terms there is a treatment approach called the inner child. this is different then having DID type alters. this type of inner child is what everyone has whether they are mental disordered or not....times when they feel like a child, times when they react like a child would, times when they feel and react like the child they used to be....you know like when you get really angry and feel like throwing a temper tantrum like you did when you were say 2 yrs old, or you get really excited just like you did at a special birthday you had when you were a child....or maybe its the therapist doing something that makes you feel that same child like wonder/safety that you felt at some point when you were a child, or discussing hard things and you start feeling like and reacting like you did when that hard event you are discussing happened in the past....

some people call their alternate personalities inner child...this is vastly different then what I just explained above... alters with DID are parts of a persons personality (their memories, emotions, distinct characteristics of a person .......basically everything that makes up a human beings personality) through trauma and dissociation split apart. these parts all have their own jobs, purposes, reasons for being that are completely separate from their host (person in which they live with in)...

example when I was a child during abuse I was not allowed to cry, get angry, fight my abuser. my brain desensitized me from these emotions and the traumatic events through the normal process of dissociation. each of these parts of my personality (needing to cry, getting angry, fighting/standing up for myself and the memory of the traumatic event) all split off from my conscious awareness and became separate personalities where ....

one's job purpose reason for being was to cry,

another's job purpose reason for being was to get angry

another's job, purpose, reason for being was to fight against those that this alter perceived to be a threat /abusive.

another's job, purpose reason for being was to relive /hold the memory of the traumatic event.

These alters were just like and functioned like completely different people, just like you and your best friend are two different people.

Im taking a guess that your treatment provider is talking about the first one...the therapeutic version of inner child concept where she may be seeing times when you are reacting like you did when you were a child rather than as the saying goes acting like a responsible adult able to take care of yourself and your problems.

please dont take that as a diagnosis only your treatment provider can tell you what they mean when they use the term inner child.

here is what america now goes by for what is DID..
http://forums.psychcentral.com/disso...s-dsm-5-a.html