#compartmentalization

[rottenteeth]

I dont like the term plural, I feel like it normalizes and almost encourages separation of dissociative parts.

I am not multiple, I am one very broken person. My introjects are abusers and my memory is so horrible even when who I perceive to be me is present.

My mind has memories and thoughts that it wants to keep separate from other parts. Have you ever noticed that each facet thinks that its way of being is the true way? That it's hard to remember any way of being that isn't your current view?

I often experience what seems like anterograde dissociative amnesia. I always think I'm present in the moment, but in a split second (or hours, or days, or months) I lose those memories. Whether that be partially or fully, or even if they can be triggered when someone else mentions the event. They become compartmentalized into other parts and it continues to give them a sense of "me". In reality, I am them, as are they me.

[dougielombax]

Employee 1: So what’s this all about?

Employee 2: I don’t know. Some sort of mandatory safety course on confidentiality and the dangers of information mismanagement. Don’t worry about it.

Employee 1: Come on, what could possibly go wrong?

Kid Named Severe Information Mismanagement:

*BANG!!!!!!*

*noises of panic and chaos accompanied by screaming and hysteria which eventually fades out accompanied by static interference followed by dissonantly serene music*

*OH WELL THAT’S ALRIGHT THEN!!!!!!!!!!*

[sophieinwonderland]

When I say that systems can form without trauma, what I mean is that people can experience forms of dissociative compartmentalization that results in multiple internal self-conscious agents with distinct identities without trauma.

Each agent can have its own sense of self, 1st person perspective, and its own connection to autobiographical memories. Each agent can experience detachment from the memories of other agents, feeling as if those memories belong to someone else. Each agent can take executive control over the body. None of these things require trauma.

I fully believe that anyone who wants to identify as a system can do so for whatever reason, whether that's psychological or spiritual. But I also want to be very clear that I am not simply claiming a vague philosophy of feeling like multiple selves.

This is not a semantic debate. It's not debate about the meaning of words. It's about experiences.

My position is that this specific psychological phenomena I detailed above, which could be described as dissociative in the context of psychology, can happen without any trauma to cause it and that it can be induced through intentional practices.

[tylernmymirror]

hey dad *** hey dad can u come pick me up? its getting bad again and im staying up 2 l8 as a distraction im being cruel 2 everyone so i don't form any attachments bcuz its the only protective measure i know i can make happen and its easier 2 isolate than 2 risk publicly snapping im trying 2 stand still 2 stop running in2 these problems so that i wont have 2 hide them and u wont have 2 solve them and i thought i was improving until i saw my size, my mirror told me id gotten smaller while 2 numb 2 realize so while the big strong man u raised toughs it out w/ grunts and sighs, that broken girl i drowned breaks the surface with her cries

[heart-songs]

Life had made her an expert at mashing feelings into a storable size.

Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing (pg. 151)

[random-xpressions]

To compartmentalize is so very important for your mental health that it cannot be stressed enough. Our body is the perfect example of this concept. There's a pipeline that carries the purified blood to the rest of your body and there's a separate pipeline that carries the deoxygenated blood back to your heart. There's a pipeline through which you inhale food and another through which you inhale air. Cut open a woman's breast and there will be blood and pus but a lactating mother gives out the sweetest of milk to her child. Compartmentalization at its finest is the law of our nature. The same must be beautifully enacted in the mental plain as well but this requires a bit of our voluntary participation. Thoughts, feelings, emotions, sentiments, beliefs, convictions - all of these play a very important role in shaping the very course of our lives. Be very clear what thoughts need a space inside your head. Be even more clear which feelings need to deepen in your soul and which needs to be allowed to pass away. If you're not conscious enough, these matters can be overwhelming and cause havoc beyond your wildest imagination. So practise this art of compartmentalizing - to keep things in its proper place and not allowing any sort of overlapping...

Random Xpressions

[sweatsnervously47]

I safely compartmentalized my feelings but then I tipped over the box. Help! They're getting everywhere! They're on the walls!!

[howifeltabouthim]

When it is necessary . . . I will put anything or anyone out of mind.

Catherine Lacey, from Biography of X

[mbti-notes]

hey mbti notes, in a recent post about batman being INTJ you said: "Living a secret double life and having no problem rationalizing the contradictions is a common theme for TJs (stemming from a problematic imbalance between Te and Fi)." and I wanted clarification of this point. Is this problematic? It makes sense to me to indulge one aspect of yourself with one group and another aspect with another group that dislikes the earlier aspect, is this not healthy? Most humans have contradictions

What is the purpose of saying "most humans have contradictions"? Are you using the "everyone does it so it must be okay" rationale? It is a logical fallacy to assume "ought" from "is".

If you don't know how to determine whether your behavior is healthy or unhealthy, see past posts on the topic. Having a private life is not the same as compartmentalization, where people purposely split themselves up into conflicting parts.

Compartmentalization is an ego defense mechanism that defends against feelings of cognitive dissonance. Defense mechanisms are psychological band-aids that people use to feel better about themselves, but they do not resolve the deeper, underlying sources of cognitive dissonance - they are short-term solutions that overlook long-term consequences. In extreme cases, using defense mechanisms can actually be self-sabotaging, worsening cognitive dissonance and its negative effects.

What is a "secret double life"? It implies something shameful or unethical is occurring, otherwise, why keep it hidden? Are you purposely hiding aspects of yourself because you can't fully accept them and also don't want others to associate those aspects with you? If not, then this concept doesn't apply to you. If so, it might indicate fragmentation of the self, which is psychologically unhealthy.

Why do you think people suffer mental breakdowns? Oftentimes, it's because the fragmented parts of the self are in such contradiction that the tension and conflict between them becomes too painful to bear. One important principle of human well-being is wholeness. If most of your effort revolves around actively keeping yourself fragmented and creating/upholding contradictions in the mind, you will lose a lot of mental energy and you will find it very difficult to ever feel like a whole person.

[corbinscrawdadz]

Anyone else got an internal dialogue instead of an internal monologue? But like the other side of the internal dialogue has different names during different ‘states’ of it and while they don’t sound different you can tell them apart by like. Feeling? And they definitely like. Are there for different things like. One that may pop up sometimes is just there to shame you for shit and another is kinda Just Some Guy but is also capable of debate BUT can also console you. Shout out to consolation mental construct of internal dialogue btw not naming names but shoutout for the ‘it’s YOUR shower, you’re ALLOWED to piss in it.’ Beautiful quote. Gonna cherish allowing me to piss in the shower forever.

And like none of them converse with one another, it’s always just me and the other side of the dialogue, never more than one dialogue State at a time. They might mention one another to me but there’s no evidence of interaction between said states of internal dialogue.

Can’t really control if the other side of the dialogue is there or not either, nor which state of the other side of dialogue it is.

And like very rarely the other side of the dialogue will have a uh. A feelings. An emotions, if you will. I can feel when that happens and when it does happen it is for the most part negative if strong.

Also have distinct appearances they are visualized with.

There is also often arguing about what to do such as this as an example

‘Mmmm the scalding water must cleanse me-‘

*reaches to turn knob of shower*

‘Wh- hey. No. Don’t do that. Don’t burn yourself’

*reaches away from knob*

‘I must be CLEANSED WITH FIRE’

*reaches towards knob*

And on and on until a final action/decision is made on whether I should shower with warm water or PURGE THE FILTH FROM MYSELF WITH THE HOLY FIRES OF SHOWER WATER

also the uh. Viewpoints? Of certain dialogue states can change over time? Some are more static than others but I can say mx. ‘you’re allowed to pee in the shower’ has uh. Changed a lot in terms of. Opinions? Technically these would be my opinions since I guess technically they aren’t separate entities? Idk, there’s internal debate around that.

Like does anybody else do this? I’ve heard it be called by one other guy as compartmentalization. Anybody else do this with their internal dialogue where they compartmentalize it between themselves and other states of the other side of the convo? And characterize the other states of dialogue?

[bogunicorn]

Should I make a BG3 sideblog? I might make a BG3 sideblog.

[omegathetaone]

Yanno, sometimes I forget and/or don't realize how exhausting it is to compartmentalize everything into tiny, separate categories. Sometimes, I don't realize that I compartmentalize almost every daily action until my brain is fried by the time I get home. It's tiring, but also confusing to a point. I compartmentalize so heavily some days the whole day gets thrown into a fog, and other days I compartmentalize everything that it caves inwards by the time I walk through the door and feel overwhelmed. Compartmentalization, in my case, also causes this sense of emptiness that I can't describe. Not a good or bad feeling per se; it's like a blank canvas sitting on an easel. Nothing there but that monotone off-white. It's worse on bad days where my chronic pain flares up or I receive bad news of some sort, and less so on other days. Still sort of blank, but instead of a blank canvas it has splashes of color here and there to make it less...bland looking. I never really mention that to anyone because I don't want them jumping to the conclusion that the "empty" or "blank" feeling is bad or actively harming me, when that has been my natural state for as long as I can remember. It's the one word that I find describes it best, and I have a very hard time describing and discerning emotions from one another (Alexithymia). People that I've met jump to conclusions about me a lot because of how I act and some of the things I say, when really those conclusions aren't true. It gets annoying, I guess.

[dougielombax]

I admire the Cole Protocol legislation.

Sure it worked.

But it makes it all the more funnier that the Covenant found earth by sheer accident.

[eelhound]

"We resolve the cognitive dissonance between a traditional religious worldview and modernity by ignoring it. For example, we may live in a premodern world on Sunday mornings and in a modern world the rest of the week. This compartmentalization is actually quite postmodern. Our complicated and specialized societies encourage such a fragmentation. In fact, it has become difficult not to compartmentalize...

Nevertheless, religion compartmentalized in this way becomes trivialized and irrelevant. A religious orientation that does not inform our daily lives, infusing day-to-day concerns, is not doing its job. The point of a spiritual worldview is to teach us what is really important about the world, and therefore how to live in it. By surrendering this function to more rationalized and secular institutions — the state, the economy, the media, the university and other scientific institutes — religion is reduced to a shell that ends up providing us with little more than an occasional refuge from an otherwise stressful world, a canopy to duck under when it all becomes too much."

- David Loy, from The Great Awakening: A Buddhist Social Theory, 2003.

[anthropomorphique]

meanwhile disasters happen or the inner critic gets super mean and hurtful and I'm like yeah whatever.

but lestat season 2 - you know the scenes - has me weeping

microdosing on catharsis by watching a fictional character or persona i relate to have an emotional breakdown until my chest starts to ache from the amount i've repressed

[curiouscorvidcreaturecompendium1]