Today I (we) started counseling with a specialist in Dissociative Identity Disorder at Freedom and Healing in Christ, Inc. (He doesn't call us multiple. He calls us a divided self.) He had us state our goals so here they are:
--We want to learn how to be in touch with each other and work together as a whole, with no one jerking others ahead, no one being left behind, no one being trampled on.
--We want to understand us: how our various parts (primary, alters) are related and (I thought of this afterward) fill in the gaps in our memory.
He added two more for me:
--Uncover the lies which keep dissociation in place; when truth replaces the lies I have believed which caused me to split, thus resolving my deepest conflicts, I won't need dissociation any more and I will integrate (be whole).
--Increase my capacity for joy. Joy is the only thing that gives us strength to "go behind the curtain" and face what we don't know. (Joy? I'll have to think about that one. Wouldn't it be courage or faith or self-confidence?)
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