Childhood Childish

[WildMermaid]

:hug: I am learning so much from you @Born to Run thank you or that. Oh yes the splintered off parts i understand too! I have an angry 9 year old and a rebellious teen all housed in this body. I just try and remember that without them I would not be here today.

 

[Born to Run]

@WildMermaid What are the colouring pages?

 

[WildMermaid]

@Born to Run oh @Lewa posted them in media! [DLMURL]https://www.myptsd.com/c/albums/users/lewa.17905/albums[/DLMURL] they are lovely :)

I can post some free coloring pages from the web if you like. I'll make a littles album. :) I have paper dolls that i drew that i could add too.

 

[mytai]

@Go Hungry my T has a punching bag that she brought to group and we can beat on it with a piece of hose to get out anger. It scares me too much to do it, but everyone else finds it helpful. Can you get your 12 year old person one of those?

 

[Born to Run]

@WildMermaid @Lewa Those are really nice colourings. I am new to this, so if you would be so kind to post a link, that would be very nice. I am just not good with dolls, always been afraid of those :eek:

 

[Born to Run]

@Go Hungry Maybe an ignorant question, but the angry kid you describe is this an alter or a fragmented child part? Sometimes it seems difficult to me were the line is drawn as basically the principle of splitting off parts is the same, just the extent differs.

 

[Deleted member 1860]

Everybody has an inner child. It's a great focus of certain types of therapy. In this sense it has nothing to do with DID or fragmented personalit ies.

 

[WildMermaid]

Good point @Solara. ^_^

 

[WildMermaid]

http://www.coloring-pages-adults.com/art-nouveau/ @Born to Run found some neat coloring pages here! EDIT: I blushed whilst doing it but I added an album titled "Little Stuffs" that anyone can share in. Posted a bunch of pages to color.

 

[Go Hungry]

@mytai I've never tried punching bags.. not sure how well that would work out. I know that he's really big on self-harm though. Which is part of why I keep such a tight cap on him. @Born to Run I don't quite know exactly what he classes as. Like I said.. it's kinda like.. an attitude change. A severe attitude change, with different assumptions about reality, different ways of dealing with things, different everything... I get lost in it, but sometimes I can pull myself out of it. Not fun...

 

[mytai]

@Go Hungry the punching bag is small and it just lays on the floor, then you take a 2 or 3ft long piece of hose (not garden hose, bigger) and beat the bag on the floor. You are supposed to make a noise when you do it so it is more of a release. Maybe you could figure out who or what he's so angry at and get him to picture the punching bag as that person or thing and let him beat it up?

 

[Chava]

Hard to talk, shy, closed in, hugging knees to my chest. Interested in stuffed animals but feel I cannot access them. Therapist offered but I wanted to get one on my own...took an hour, crying and scooting along the floor. Probably age 4. Other times I cannot hold my head up. I can't move unless I just pull myself across the floor. Legs are dead and drag behind me. I'm about 1 year old. I want to touch my therapist's hand but am shaking so bad. If we make any contact, one of us becomes unreal. So wanting to connect in a very basic way, but without either of us disappearing. It's pretty stressful.