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What do you think of Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation by Janina Fisher?

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I listened to the audio book when I had a free trial. I found it really helpful. I don’t think it’s just for DID but more like a spectrum of how people struggling In various ways can find it useful to think in “parts” term. I would recommend! Hope I can get the physical book at some point
 
I read the first couple of chapters a couple of nights ago.

I like her description of the parts we accept/‘own’ and other part(s) we ignore or dismiss as ‘not me.’ The ‘me’ and ‘not me’ distinction really resonates with me. This younger, split-off part I’m struggling to connect with (resistant to connecting with) definitely feels like something I want to keep ‘over there’ because it’s not really anything to do with me, la la la…

I was reading the book pretty late and then went to bed. Then had a really, really horrible dream where I was having a really violent, brutal miscarriage. It was awful. I do have a tendency for lairy dreams but don’t think this one was a coincidence!
 
I bought this book a couple years ago. I got a very small amount in and was triggered so badly by it all. I gave up reading it and actually think I gave the book away, to my T. Looking back I think maybe I just wasn't ready to face what happened to me. I couldn't even think the word trauma, let alone apply it to myself or speak it, so maybe it was all just too early for me.

I'm in a different place now, maybe I should ask if she still has it.
 
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