Aggressive/avoidant on the forum. Aggressive/avoidant, two sides of a coin. Gentler insiders have indicated to me twice that the environment at the front of the house is intolerably negative. A little named Unicorn shoved me out of her inner world, saying "Get out! Get out!" as it looked like the Nothing from The Never Ending Story was about to wreck her castle. It's just because of who we are with our feelings and memories.
If you haven't seen the Never Ending Story, it's a great kids' movie that seems to have been made for people with DID or anyone with emotional pain. It was a book but I only saw the movie. Someone mentioned it here before. In this story a little boy is dealing with trauma from the loss of his mother and bullies at school. His dad is not very supportive and tells him to get his head of the clouds.
The boy hid in a bookstore when he was running from the bullies and found a magical book. The world of Fantasia in the book was threatened by a force of annihilation called the Nothing. It swept the land and voided everything it touched. It represents the loss of dreams and imagination. In the end the boy had to realize that he could influence and create Fantasia in order to save them and also deal with the bullies.
Unicorn said, "The fronts think it's about dream logic but it's real." She also says, "Me and the girl in the blue volcano got dissociated because I want to go live at Castleen (the inner world) but she just wants to go home."
We're having some issues with contamination management. Aggressive/avoidant because I fear the Nothing, annihilation. The Nothing destroys worlds. It destroyed me. I have an unknown number of terrified littles who are afraid of the abuser stalking me inside of my brain. I'm not even sure what that means but it's what they say. I'm kind of in a double bind because the front's already messed up with the Nothing, and these kids are worse off. How can I help them without endangering the rest of the system? It would seem I have to find a creative solution but I'm really out of my depth. They are allowed to have DID. They are allowed to create inner worlds where they feel safe.