Disappearing

I went about things quite differently but it worked for me. I didn't want parts to become more prominent and I didn't want to communicate with them like they were separate people.

So I didn't journal and also I told my DID therapist that I refused to recover memories because I wouldn't believe them if I did.

With the therapist's encouragement, parts did talk during therapy but outside of therapy, I was determined to think of myself as just one person.

What did help me was to deal with the trauma that I already remembered. As I dealt with my life and what happened to me - as I came to understand - the fracturing that I experienced gradually disappeared.

I did acknowledge that it felt like a series of different people had led parts of a life in my body. I also acknowledged that in childhood I had created Ball, The Others and chanted a new me into existence while destroying the old.

But trying to communicate with any of these parts in therapy was not helpful and ultimately not at all necessary.

Dealing with the course of my life and the trauma involved just naturally led to a sense of self that became whole. I was able to embrace all of myself and feel like all of my life belonged to me.

kittenspuppies wrote:I went about things quite differently but it worked for me. I didn't want parts to become more prominent and I didn't want to communicate with them like they were separate people.

So I didn't journal and also I told my DID therapist that I refused to recover memories because I wouldn't believe them if I did.

With the therapist's encouragement, parts did talk during therapy but outside of therapy, I was determined to think of myself as just one person.

What did help me was to deal with the trauma that I already remembered. As I dealt with my life and what happened to me - as I came to understand - the fracturing that I experienced gradually disappeared.

I did acknowledge that it felt like a series of different people had led parts of a life in my body. I also acknowledged that in childhood I had created Ball, The Others and chanted a new me into existence while destroying the old.

But trying to communicate with any of these parts in therapy was not helpful and ultimately not at all necessary.

Dealing with the course of my life and the trauma involved just naturally led to a sense of self that became whole. I was able to embrace all of myself and feel like all of my life belonged to me.

So building strong dissociative walls is a good way to cure DID?