TheCollective wrote:My therapist seems to disagree with trying to find everyone by reason that singletons don't know all of themselves either. But I don't think she has a clue about the confusion.
This is a false equivalent. I've had friends with whom I've shared about the DID and I've gotten that sort of not getting it. Alters are not the same as a singleton's hidden motivations or forgotten memories.
We have two alters who've dissuaded us from paying them much attention, Marc and Ryder. Yet both of them provide our system with key functionalities. If we hadn't identified them, if we didn't know how and why they came to do what they do, we wouldn't understand ourselves nearly as well. Others, who we assumes to play lesser roles, have turned out to hold key knowledge or did have limited roles in the past but are playing a significant part in our healing now.
TheCollective wrote:For the purpose of identifying feelings and being able to directly work with the feelings it seems to me that it's necessary to identify who the feeling is coming from. Like one of us is consistently against our marriage and deeply in love with another man. How can I work with this if I don't even know who it's coming from?
This is a really good point, well put.
WeAreOne, in your original post (surprisingly short given the responses) were you looking to make distinctions among what appear to be one or a few alters and who are similar? For us, that's come from observing inconsistencies in behavior. Many of us do act pretty similar. That and/or many are able to latch on to a shared generic adultness with which they operate.
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