[Claritytoo]

I asked this on another post and was hoping someone would respond. I don't expect an answer but I am wondering if anyone else does this during therapy

"I have alters who get me to therapy but don't go to therapy. I go to therapy and some of the others do also. I don't understand this calling out thing. If I go to therapy I talk to my t. I am not the one born. Sometimes others will come out during therapy because they have something to say. It helps us to hear what each other is thinking. I don't know who the one born is. I thought she might be the one who is upset by the revelation that we have DID or she might be the one who is the same age as the body. I don't know. So if (I an "alter") didn't talk to my t, who would?"

[yellowfrog268]

That is an interesting question. Some of your alters get everyone to the therapists office which suggests they too have an interest in therapy even if they don't participate. Maybe they want all involved (alters and the born one) to go but are scared to actually participate.

[amandalouise]

Originally Posted by Claritytoo

I asked this on another post and was hoping someone would respond. I don't expect an answer but I am wondering if anyone else does this during therapy

"I have alters who get me to therapy but don't go to therapy. I go to therapy and some of the others do also. I don't understand this calling out thing. If I go to therapy I talk to my t. I am not the one born. Sometimes others will come out during therapy because they have something to say. It helps us to hear what each other is thinking. I don't know who the one born is. I thought she might be the one who is upset by the revelation that we have DID or she might be the one who is the same age as the body. I don't know. So if (I an "alter") didn't talk to my t, who would?"

All my alters had their own jobs purposes, reasons for being.....what that means is that each time I became triggered/dissociated (some people call this switching) which ever alter dealt with that trigger was the one that took control...for example it was sunnys job, purpose reason for being to be cheerful/appear to be cheerful, it was Rainy's job, purpose reason for being to deal with my depressive times, and it was Reds job, purpose reason for being to deal with extreme anger, confrontations...and if you example I could not handle going to therapy then the alters that dealt with navigating getting a taxi would take over, since dealing with a taxi meant a financial situation when it came time to pay the taxi those that dealt with finances took over, then during therapy the ones that dealt with what ever issues were being discussed would take over...

thats basically how my internal system of alters worked. Here having this kind of internal system is called being categorical. (the DSM IV TR called it distinct). All DID people have at least two of these type alters with in their internal system that makes up my whole internal system of alters. some only have two others have more.

talk with your own treatment providers and they can explain how and why your internal system of alters is comprised the way it is.

to answer your question who would talk with your T if you did not..well you would need to work with your T to discover who else with in your internal system of alters deals with therapeutic issues. maybe that alter has already been in control during therapy and you are not aware of them yet. your therapist can tell you more about your internal system of alters that you are part of.

[Claritytoo]

Originally Posted by yellowfrog268

That is an interesting question. Some of your alters get everyone to the therapists office which suggests they too have an interest in therapy even if they don't participate. Maybe they want all involved (alters and the born one) to go but are scared to actually participate.

They think it is good that we are in therapy. They are the ones who function in the world. They are not afraid they know more about the system than many of us. They believe we need to learn more about us so we can decide how we want to live life. I don't drive so if they didn't take me I couldn't get there. As I learn more about my system we learn more about each other. It's difficult sometimes but we know we are doing what we need to in order to have peace of mind. That is our goal, to feel safe and have peace of mind.

[Piraeus]

Hi Claritytoo. It's great that you have come to terms with this. I really don't know what I would do if I were in your shoes. One good thing is that you are going to therapy.You are very brave for talking so openly about it.

PC is a very safe place for you. I'm glad your here. I hope to see you around.

Sincerely,

Piraeus

[cryingoutloud1]

well... we have the person that was born sleeping... she is never woken up. we have others protect her while she sleeps. She never comes out and talks to others. The rest of us are alters. However we have a couple people that drive so that usually is not a problem. But if we are somewhere and a person is out that does not drive someone has to call that person out to come and drive because that would be dangers for someone who can't drive to drive.

[jax01]

few of my insiders will miss therapy. If they aren't watching "the therapy show", they are watching the others to see what they do.