Posted by noa on March 23, 2004, at 17:30:47
In reply to Ego states, posted by Dinah on March 22, 2004, at 20:37:09
Yes. I don't have DID per se, or true dissociation (whatever that really means, but based on what I've read about it) but we have talked a lot about a kind of dissociation that I have had between different very distinct emotional states between depressed and non-depressed. I don't know if you remember the metaphor I mentioned of the different channels on TV--when one was on the other was gone, like it didn't exist at all, etc. and I always felt a lack of ability to predict when the channel would change, etc., and then as the therapy progressed, it felt like I could be more aware of the other channel when I was watching this one, and then it became so I felt like I could have a split screen, and then it changed to kind of a inset screen within screen, etc.
I don't think we used the words "ego states", but I think it seems like a similar concept.
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