Are different emotions controlled by different alters?

I know that my husband has an angry, uneasy, tough guy and child alters(these are the ones I have had encounters with). But are all of his emotions controlled by the others? Does he get angry, uneasy, happy, sad, mad, irritated, etc, etc?

Some emotions may be controlled by alters or trigger an alter to come out. I describe alters as basically "mood and memory sets". There may be several alters that feel "happy" and act upon it in similar or different ways.. Or there may be a single alter that has "happy". It depends on the individual system and how the system was formed to protect the person.

The host has emotions and feelings and habits and memories and likes and dislikes of their own. But frequently when going through the initial mapping process I think it's common for the host to question EVERYTHING about themselves and think "I'm happy, I must be time sharing." and to think that the occasional bouts of depression/emptiness must be what it feels to be non-timesharing. It's a scary thought.

The primary presenting complaint for DID sufferers when they finally seek help is depression. It's usually the host that seeks help. It's a really scary thought to think "I am not real, I am just another alter that happens to be host. And I'm not human I don't have emotions of my own. I'm an empty vessel. A placeholder that loads other (inside) people's emotions up like programs."

Try to help your husband avoid that feeling/worry.

All I know is that I can feel a full range of emotions. I can be happy, sometimes I'm not, sometimes I'm angry or depressed or hyper or stressed or contented... it just depends on what's happening that day I guess.
I'm one of Harri's main alters. god that sounds WEIRD to type. But most of her alters started out as characters in stories, each character having at their disposal a full range of emotions. Acutally, now that I think about it, the problems seem to have escalated the more we realised just how much different emotions each of us could hold. It was like ti was too much for us.

If my analysis of Harri and Kane is correct, then Harri could feel a full range of her emotions and a full range of Kane's too, and when something got too intense in the 'real world' for her, the sheer amount of emotion she felt would overwhelm her, which would then trigger a change into somebody who had not just been experiencing all the emotions at once.

At first she tried to fob off her 'anger' emotion on Kane, she used to say that he was her 'evil part'. But then the more she wrote, the more she realised that she has bad and good parts, and so does he. His emotions were just as complex as hers. And when she realised he knew what love and sadness were, she knew she couldn't ever try and fob off an emotion, compartmentalise it onto just one personality.

I know how it feels to be compartmentalised, because Seth tries to do it to me. Apparently I'm his 'bad alter-ego', apparently I'm everything bad about him. But he's wrong. A lot of things in his life that he's done, like the overdose, the cutting, the angry rants - that's pure Seth speaking, not me. I sometimes feel like being sad too. Hah, he'd better not read this.

I think probably that the extent of emotions felt and controlled by different personas is largely dependent on the circumstances under which they were created. Like, say yew have a kid whos' not allowed to cry, maybe they will develop an alter persona who is able to cry, and it might take a long time for the original persona to learn to feel that emotion again.

This is a verreh interesting point you raised though, Mrslspinks! I'm interested in Trixy's reply, mainly cuz I wonder if Harri feels like an empty vessel half the time. Bet she does

Well, 'pologies for the long speech, t'was rather interestin

xx Deelee

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benny

Yes, some alters have taken to experiencing only one emotion, as they were present for only one thing, and as I could not have experiences such an intense emotion they were created to do that and only that.

In our system, we call the alters with just a specific emotion or one/two memories 'fragment-alters'.

All our other alters have full ranges of emotion and full-fledged personalities, bút we do know what our main emotion was when we came into existence and even though our personalities have built, that's the emotion we struggle with the most.

That's how this works for us.