[estrella]

Does therapy help address the issues that helped in the creation of these alters or does it make them...go away?

I have a few--guessing that's what you would call them. I'm kind of apprehensive of disclosing this to my therapist, the fact that there are people inside my head who seem to have their own thoughts and feelings apart from my own (though I don't really know myself from bottomless pit).

There's a collective group of individuals, all of whom I'm not entirely sure I want to be addressed in treatment. But then a part of me is like, let go. But these people have given me comfort over the years, comfort which cannot be substituted by human connection and compassion.

I'm afraid that I will have to let go of them by acknowledging their existence? What are your experiences with therapy and alters?

[amandalouise]

Originally Posted by estrella

Does therapy help address the issues that helped in the creation of these alters or does it make them...go away?

I have a few--guessing that's what you would call them. I'm kind of apprehensive of disclosing this to my therapist, the fact that there are people inside my head who seem to have their own thoughts and feelings apart from my own (though I don't really know myself from bottomless pit).

There's a collective group of individuals, all of whom I'm not entirely sure I want to be addressed in treatment. But then a part of me is like, let go. But these people have given me comfort over the years, comfort which cannot be substituted by human connection and compassion.

I'm afraid that I will have to let go of them by acknowledging their existence? What are your experiences with therapy and alters?

no alters associated with DID do not go away. everything they are goes back to being one with the one in which they reside.

example.... i started out as one whole person at birth, through very early extreme trauma before the age of 5 DID type alternate personalities were created to handle that which I was too young to understand and handle on my own. these parts of me (rainy, thelma red and others ) had their own way of being, their own jobs purposes reasons for being.through treatment they were no longer needed to handle things for me. as I was able to handle things on my own everything they were merged back together with me to form one whole person again. everything rainy and the others was is still there, its just all me now just like I began this life as one whole person again. one of rainys memories and fears was rain storms. I have that memory and feel the fear that was once hers. it never went way, just is different now.

your treatment provider can explain more in detail what will happen to you and your alters when its time for you all to become one whole person again.

[finding_my_way]

i'm not sure they go away as much as they can integrate (with or without therapy depending). i asked my psychiatrist about that because years ago i had a lot of communication and activity but then when huge things changed in my life, communication was lost and they all went quiet and less active for long periods of time except in subtle ways at times and more recently more active but in different ways than i used to experience.

i asked my psychiatrist if they ever just go away, and she said they don't and that they can go quiet/dormant when/if they are not needed/have no reason to be active, etc. and also in my case where i did not have a barrier between myself and them where i do now which is also why i don't experience things the same way.

so, the answer is they can go quiet when not needed but can integrate through therapy if it's what is wanted.

[scar12346]

That is what I am scared from as well. I am scared that through therapy the core will come back and we all will just go poof, and never be any more. Because that is just unfair. Plus we have gotten attached to each other. If Waidth suddenly disappear we will all feel empty and that goes for each one of us. I really don't want to let anyone go.

My understanding is that they don't go away but become "part of". In my case, part of who? Not like any of us is an original or host. Do we just start clumping up like clay and in the end, "what you see is what you get"? I've got heavy mixed feelings about that....it's so icky feeling like watching a horror movie where blobular pieces join to form a contorted mess of a creature. This mental image is really stressing the system out bad....especially the littles.

Moving on.....