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hauntedselves · 2 years ago

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Can childhood dissociation from emotions cause emotion bases alters (with their own names/personality traits that align with the emotion?)

Dissociation doesn't cause alters, trauma does.

Quote from the ISSTD Guidelines for Treating DID:

"Severe and prolonged traumatic experiences can lead to the development of discrete, personified behavioral states (i.e., rudimentary alternate identities) in the child, which has the effect of encapsulating intolerable traumatic memories, affects, sensations, beliefs, or behaviors and mitigating their effects on the child’s overall development."

So if you dissociated because of trauma, and part of that was denying/repressing your emotions, yes you could have alters that hold emotions.

#dogasks #trauma #development of did #dissociative identity disorder #honestly maybe look into the theory of structural dissociation & BPD/CPTSD as well #and tbh if you had to dissociate from your emotions as a kid then there was obviously SOMETHING going on.#not necessarily trauma from abuse; could also be neurodivergence or bullying or a developing personality disorder or smth else #oh & if your parts are only holding emotions: look into OSDD-1 and BPD and CPTSD more than DID. remember though its a spectrum!

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