Mental hook?

Hi, I haven't been here for ages for a multitude of reasons.

Still seeing a psychiatrist and that but in this country he can't help me with my dissociation problems of which there have been a few so that's irritating. He's given me a mood diary to do.

Anyway my prompting in my mind to come here has been a question in the back of my mind for quite a while.

Is it possible to use a person, place, music - something physical - as a mental hook?

To try to explain what I mean...you go off on some tangent taken by an alter or alters but they leave a hook, and anchor to which you can come back to that re-centres you or takes you mentally and emotionally back to where you where before you went off on an alters tangent. I ask because my mind has said it's done this on more than one occasion. It keeps the feeling or the idea of what you did or felt while they were on a tangent but leaves you (or the current fronting alter) detached and unaffected by their tangent.

Does anyone have experience of this or something similar?

Thanks in advance for any input.

Sarandipity wrote: It keeps the feeling or the idea of what you did or felt while they were on a tangent but leaves you (or the current fronting alter) detached and unaffected by their tangent.

Does anyone have experience of this or something similar?

Thanks in advance for any input.

Do you mean like a way for you to have the memories of what happened when the other part was in control? So that there is no amnesia? So you KNOW what happened, but it feels like it is someone else's memory?

BritPlus6 wrote:

Sarandipity wrote: It keeps the feeling or the idea of what you did or felt while they were on a tangent but leaves you (or the current fronting alter) detached and unaffected by their tangent.

Does anyone have experience of this or something similar?

Thanks in advance for any input.

Do you mean like a way for you to have the memories of what happened when the other part was in control? So that there is no amnesia? So you KNOW what happened, but it feels like it is someone else's memory?

Not exactly. More of you're left mentally and emotionally where you left off. So that whatever happened in-between doesn't effect you. Everything in-between is blurry and messed up and only when alters front their personal specific memories come so you get to know some as you go along. I often have more than one part fronting or at least in the background. Trying to think of a simpler way to put it...if they use a hook or an anchor then I'm BAM overall back to my previous emotional state regardless of whatever they went through or did. Obviously their emotions must be inside me somewhere, with them I guess, and they give me a rough outline "this happened, don't worry about it" if necessary for life continuity but for me, sort of like you said, it's irrelevant to me - it's not my memory or happening.