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I should have been doing this for ages. I do it outside of the house. Rarely thought of it inside of the house.

It's so great when these connections are made. Being able to ground within your house will be a fantastic leap forward for you....that alone might change lots for you.

But, specifically to the "program" of this thread. You said that "you don't have attachments to one year old things"....can I propose that you don't when in this current state but maybe you do when your "program" kicks in. I'm thinking a box specifically for that program.

I'm not suggesting you have alters, but I like that system of thinking to help resolve childhood quirks......so if you consider that your program enacts a one year old then what does that child want in order to stay in the house and not wander somewhere unsafe. I'm suggesting that the child would want to go somewhere comfortable for that child, and where love was felt and if this can't be from people, the next best thing is objects.

As always, these are just random thoughts, I could be way off.
 
I wonder if I had a closet (one I am thinking of in a room I have an affinity to) and threw a mirror and chair and little table in there and that was my 'grow up' room.
I was thinking along the same lines. Love that closet! I think I've said before what a great place it would be for a kid.

So would the mirror be for integrating past and present because you would have kid stuff in there but a mirror to remind you that you have an adult body now? Am I understanding correctly? (I read the post again and realized, oh yes, you'd need a mirror to put on makeup... but my observation also fits I think.)

Sun, wondering if we can set this up and perhaps I should be doing this every day to 'grow up' as quite honestly, every day of my young life all I wanted to be was a grown up.
Sounds great to me. So not baby things per se, but things a small child would want if she wanted to grow up. Let's look around for what we need.

7. Earrings that jingle if I move my head.
8. An anklet that feels 'heavy' and has pretty jewels hanging off of it.
I'm still wondering if there is some way to link these things to your safe place so if you are triggered and running, they will remind you that there is actually a safe place to go. You raised a very valid question of how to link them to going to that place when you are triggered and not just anytime. You don't want to, say, be in the garden and notice your anklets and feel compelled to go to your safe place right then, but you do want them to work that way if you are triggered. How to do that? I got stuck there, does anyone have any ideas on this?

Also, is this closet going to be the place you would go to if you need a safe place when triggered? Do you think it will work to have it in the house? That would be absolutely stupendous... just wondering if I have this straight.
 
Also, is this closet going to be the place you would go to if you need a safe place when triggered?
Yes, you do have it straight. I may need your help in getting me to the closet and that is where the thought of lightly (if there is such a thing) triggering me would work AFTER I have worked on re-enforcing while I am well. So there may need to be some pomp and ceremony to 'creating the space'.

I have no idea whether it will work as it will be trial and error during my little episodes. That along with other ideas in this posting are exactly what I am thinking. I have had enough practice with doing this in stores while i am affected when I go out that I think I have the connection to perfume/makeup down pat enough.

As a child I always wanted to be a grown up. I longed for it for some reason. I think I posted about that about a year ago. Perhaps my younger 'older' self knew that a grown up mindset would be something I would have to actually work on as an adult.
 
With practice we become better at recognizing our triggers earlier before they get out of control, proactively responding to them with less effort and more ease. Eventually learning to recognize the deeper core issues or underlying lacking skills, and then we can address them and be free from their related triggers.
Nope, no apologies necessary @Valentino. So then if I am recognizing the trigger earlier the idea is not to control it but to ride with it but with a plan of working with it rather than against it.

I love your analogies with the natural disasters etc. It does actually feel like a bit of a natural disaster inside me at those times! :blackeye:

I'm thinking a box specifically for that program.
The interesting thing about this is that my one year old was programmed to value safety and not much else. I wasn't in the 'here sweetie, sit here and play with these toys' kind of environments. I was in the armed camp of a foster parent(s) who needed me to fit in with 15 other kids in a house where I was put outside in ridiculous weather for a child of that age so that I would not cause extra work. And apparently extra work I was. So it is kind of like life today for me. Most people get all excited and call a good day a great day at work, maybe a jaunt to the beach, perhaps sitting down to a gourmet dinner at a restaurant.

I call a good day, a day when I am not feeling like I am making life or death decisions with a one year old brain while my adult self is desperately but not very loudly, attempting to do damage control. Now THAT, my friend. Is a good day! When I survive it. I will experiment with objects. I see no attachment to 1 year old stuff, but perhaps I can retrain her. Thanks for being 'outside the box' (pardon the pun) with me @ghotiff
 
My molester told me never to talk about "this" (He said, "This didn't happen."). My parents said that I stopped talking when I was very young, after I had started to form a few words. They said I would talk in gibberish, and that was until I was about three and a half years old. Then I finally broke through that and started to speak a bit. My mind blocked out the molestations, but I know somehow my mother found out when I was about six, and she and daddy forbade my grandparents access to our home. They also refused to visit them. My grandmother would call me and we would talk, but no one ever spoke to my molester again. The family disowned him.

None the less, I did not ever remember the molestations until I was in my mid thirties. It was uncovered in a therapy session. I was so traumatized by it that I never went back to that therapist. Later I asked my parents if they knew, but they didn't want to talk about it. In a strange way, my father admitted to knowing about it by saying "It is past the statute of limitations." This is a law in the USA that protects those who are guilty by making it unlawful to press charges against someone after a certain period of time. Apparently he felt some kind of guilt concerning the whole matter by saying this. I am guessing that he knew it was going on, but did nothing to stop it.

Either that, or maybe it had been done to him when he was a child and so he'd thought it was "normal." Like, since he was a victim too or something. My mother must have been the one who tell him that it was not "normal" and to make the decision to forbid my grandparents access to our house. This is what I think happened anyway.
 
So then I wasn't a monster???? That is a radical spin on my inner reality. Thank you Cashew.
Of course you wasn't, I was, and I didn't have you nywhere nearby, so you weren't in the cough noble monster pack.

(Partial kidding re: myself, and this is as close as I can get to that darn 'hugs' thing.)
 
don't know why it takes Cashew saying it to make it real, but whatever... :rolleyes:

You were never a monster, just a child, a child trying to survive in a difficult world.

I know you enough to know that you would never label another child as a monster, I hope you can show your child self the same respect and compassion that you show other children.
 
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