Posted by Dinah on May 29, 2003, at 19:06:02
In reply to Re: DID diagnosis after other diagnoses. » deirdrehbrt, posted by Pfinstegg on May 27, 2003, at 21:58:11
Pfinstegg, I don't mean to be intrusive, but something you said really stuck in my mind:
"The very hardest work that I have to do in therapy is to allow these two entirely different feeling-states to co-exist more and more, as I am able. I would rather do anything else than this, but I do trust that my therapist is right when he says that it is what I need to do. He wants all of me to be in the room with him."
It's really got me wondering. Is that even possible? With myself, I find that my two ego states or feeling states or whatever can't occupy the same space at the same time. Or, in other words, only one can have the consciousness at any given time. My rational self can access my emotional self to greater or lesser extents, but for all of me to be present at once seems like a logistical impossibility. Is it a matter of stretching consciousness? Or how is it even possible as a goal? Under the laws of physics or whatever.
If you have no idea at all what I'm talking about, never mind. I'm not altogether sure I do either. :) And if it's too painful or personal feel free to just ignore my question.
Dinah
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