Posted by Pfinstegg on April 7, 2005, at 18:33:58
In reply to Re: I don't know where else to post this, so..... » Pfinstegg, posted by Larry Hoover on April 7, 2005, at 9:45:46
No, it's not complete dissociation, because you're still aware of everything around you- and also very aware of how you would have preferred to have acted. I just meant that a younger, angrier part (which wouldn't exist without the abuse you described) was temporarily expressing his feelings.
I do this myself, but am still quite startled to find that my therapist considers it as coming from a different ego state. Even though it's happened hundreds of times in therapy (and of course outside, too), it always startles me that it's considered a different ego state which is not well integrated with the rest of me. Integration- holding the different states and feelings in mind simultaneously, and accepting them all, is our goal.
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