DID word meanings and common acronyms

Can someone on here explain to me ANP and ENP? (Not entirally sure it's enp but yeah!)

My writing style is such that I sound like a know-it-all. I'm sorry, I don't mean to sound that way.

**Trigger: talk of ANPs & EPs**

ANP = Apparently Normal Personality But, I'm not sure about ENP. You may mean EP or Emotional Personality. ANP's are parts whose job has always been to appear as if everything is OK, no problem at home, school, etc. For example, if you ever came out a Drs. office and thought, "why did I say everything was OK. It isn't OK!" Then, likely your ANP was out doing her job.
EP's are personalities that hold trauma physical feelings and emotions. Some examples: Littles, a Teen, and maybe someone with a name like 22. All approximate ages of the body. Anger, of course holds memory, but isn't an EP, because he only exhibits anger related to trauma, not flashback type feelings. Incidently, Anger is a key player. He has many characteristics and valuable traits that are NOT anger. The Observer / Watcher is also not an EP, even though he / she has memories. Interestingly, both Anger & Observer are not ages of the body. By the way ANP & EP are often like 'water & oil', ANP's are terrified of feelings and will often do a lot to prevent thinking or talking about them by EP.
Related to another post earlier, all alters are not neccisarily protecting the host (most are). Sometimes, a few are protecting the perpatrators. These are still good alters, like all alters are, they just have a bad job. But they can change!
Thanks for listening.

WARNING! May be TRIGGERING! Yesterdays post by me may be TRIGGERING!! It contains info about defined roles.
YIKES! I didn't see 'new guidelines' ( July 30, 2011) until just now, when I read my post from yesterday. Very Sorry. Don't know how I missed it.

It's okay, teedoc I added a trigger warning to that post, for you...

WHEW! Thanks Canolime.

teedoc wrote:My writing style is such that I sound like a know-it-all. I'm sorry, I don't mean to sound that way.

I love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Welcome to the Group!!!!!!!!!!!

What's really confusing to me about ANPs and EPs is that I as the adult me am pretty much an ANP but I *consciously choose* to face my fears and my EPs. And be in an intimate relationship even though that is triggering sometimes (much of the trauma stuff comes up when I'm asleep).

But I still feel that do have part/parts that still are phobic of the EPs and want nothing to do with them. That want to deny that there's anything wrong with me and still know there is and are really angry and anxious and confused about that. Maybe that's just inner parts not co-operating and accepting one another yet. I don't know.

//End of venting//

-Antti

Antii,
You sound like you are quite a ways along in accepting yourselves.
Many people never get where you are (but then, they wouldn't be here trying to understand and help each other
I think much of the ANP's 'perceived' job is related to past events. For instance, I may understand that my anger is damaging my present relationship, but maybe I can't accept knowing that the basis of that anger is from events A, B, & C. that happened when I was 3-6 years old, because the memory and accompanying feelings can be very scarie for an ANP to feel or know. Memory and feeling is usually held by the emotional parts who experienced the event, and so a big challenge to the 'main' ANP is accepting the knowledge and feelings of those past events A., B., & C. This is usually late-stage recovery work, although it can occur over longer periods of time.
The younger the EP's are, the more they are stuck in the 'time' of trauma. Often, even feeling like the trauma is currently occurring, or about to. Sometimes, littles are 'just waiting', because they feel like it will happen again any moment. Trying to tell them that time has passed is usually not productive. I try showing them that the bad thing they remember, didn't happen where the body is right now. "It happened in the old (certain color) house, not here in our new home. Also, speaking directly to how they feel is a good idea. (wow - how far off your topic am I??) Anyway, if a little is scared or feeling alone, it is great if Anger can speak to them and say for example, "I am here watching out for you. I won't ever leave you." Which , of course is true. We only tell each other the truth. This helps the child heal, and over time reduces the fear of having those feelings. Kind of like repairing our foundation, so our building (us) can stand straighter and stronger.
Thanks for letting me go on.
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I found these definitions helpful.

I suggest someone add the ANP and EP definitions to the initial post, because it takes time to wade through the whole thread to find them.

Is there such a thing as Co-hosting in the sense of 2 alters taking turns being the host if one alter is freaking out that is normally the host then the other can step in and be the host until that one is not freaking out?