Posted by Dinah on February 5, 2003, at 16:37:41
In reply to Re: How much do your moods define you? » Dinah, posted by judy1 on February 5, 2003, at 12:13:14
Hi Judy,
It really is a good book in that it describes the full range of dissociative experiences and normalizes them. And I don't really have any of the more extreme manifestations. I don't miss work or buy things or take trips without knowing. I don't have alters. I can make myself blank or foggy, but I don't actually lose time. I have done a great job of splitting off my emotional self. I think my therapist has a good, matter of fact attitude to whatever I do have, and I like that. I'm afraid that some therapists would try to expand on my actual experience. Some of the literature by "experts" is really scary. Of course, most of the literature applies to DID, not the lesser dissociative experiences.
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