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Posted by Happyflower on April 12, 2007, at 17:46:53
When you split off to a younger self, is there anyways that it could be really a flashback? Or is it something different? I really don't know, it was just a thing I was wondering.
Posted by muffled on April 12, 2007, at 23:19:35
In reply to Got a ? about split personalities, posted by Happyflower on April 12, 2007, at 17:46:53
> When you split off to a younger self, is there anyways that it could be really a flashback? Or is it something different? I really don't know, it was just a thing I was wondering.
**Its a big question. Dissociation is on a long continueum. Daydreaming at one end to full blown DID at the other.
My personal thots is that ALL have an 'inner child'.
I think the child may be the one that *experiences* the flashback, its the part that is triggered, its the part that was hurt in the first place.
My adult self is not triggered into flashbacks,its adult and knows its safe. My adult self has not been hurt in the way the child has. But I(adult me) AM troubled by how the child perceives it, because her emotional and physical response is very strong. So I end up with weird physical response, and a confusing welter of emotions that I not even sure what they are or where the hell they came from. Its just bang, WTF????
So I dunno if I got at what you were asking HF?
take care you ((((HF)))
Muffled
Posted by Daisym on April 12, 2007, at 23:41:54
In reply to Re: Got a ? about split personalities » Happyflower, posted by muffled on April 12, 2007, at 23:19:35
By definition they are pretty different things. Splitting - sending a part of yourself into the ozone - does not always, even usually, end up in fullblown DID. But whatever got split off is frozen, encapsulated along with the age-appropriate fear, confusion, or whatever. Interestingly, usually the vocabulary to explain the split off material is this same age level as well.
A flashback can be purely mental but typically there are body sensations that go with the whole experience as well. It is a little like conscious dreaming - but you are "in it" and it can be hard to shake off.
Is there a question behind this question?
Posted by muffled on April 13, 2007, at 0:18:38
In reply to Re: Got a ? about split personalities, posted by Daisym on April 12, 2007, at 23:41:54
> does not always, even usually, end up in fullblown DID.
**I agree totally w/Daisy here. I think full blown DID is more rare, I think its most common to have varying degrees of splitness.
>But whatever got split off is frozen, encapsulated along with the age-appropriate fear, confusion, or whatever. Interestingly, usually the vocabulary to explain the split off material is this same age level as well.
**I wanted to add that the vocabulary may also be non-existent, there may be no words, just physical feelings and I guess the emots that come with them, but no words. It can be very confusing.
Also the PERCEPTION of an event as it is felt by the split off part, is the perception of that child, at that time, and will not be the same as an adults. I have found its REALLY REALLY REALLY important to fully realize that the inner children ARE children, in every way. Even though they live in an adult body, THEY ARE CHILDREN, and will act as such, and need to be related to and understood as such. I struggled with this concept myself...
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> A flashback can be purely mental but typically there are body sensations that go with the whole experience as well. It is a little like conscious dreaming - but you are "in it" and it can be hard to shake off.**For me the flashes are VERY confused, they make little sense, and yes sometimes it takes awhile, even days, to chill out much. But the intensest moment of them, for me, is very short, I seem to cut them off very quickly and well. I am fortunate.
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> Is there a question behind this question?**just what I was thinking too!!!
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