Posted by Dinah on August 2, 2002, at 20:57:26
In reply to Re: of ego states and such » Dinah, posted by terra miller on July 29, 2002, at 17:14:13
> yea, i get it. do you know what would happen to me if i decided to adamantly say that nobody else "completely stood alone?" that's probably the big clue. lots of DID folks are co-conscious. i'm mostly (i think....) that way ... some of the time..... anyway, the big give away is when the opinions become ways of life/living/speaking/viewing things. then you've got DID.
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>Hi again Terra,
I was hoping you could help me out a little. I have a couple more questions for you, if I'm not being a horrible pest. I found out today that my therapist suspects I am a bit farther along the dissociation continuum than I had thought. :)
I don't know whether he came to that conclusion before or after "she" had a complete conversation with him (rather than just the short frantic phone calls).
Could you explain a bit more what you meant above? Do you mean that the other parts of you can stand alone? And I always kind of thought co-consciousness ruled out DID. Even when "she" spoke to him, I was right there alongside, rather disconcerted. I deliberately stepped aside to let "her" speak, and I could probably have stopped the whole thing if I had wanted to. And even during it, I had doubts about how real it was. Do you think it's even wise to try to step aside? "She's" been clamoring for more air time ever since.
Thanks for bearing with me on this. I think my therapist is afraid to talk to me too much about it for fear of upsetting me.
Dinah
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