ANP's, EP's, if you don't really get it about those this thread may not make a ton of sense - but if you feel like it bear with me. For those of us with Developmental Trauma we tend to split off into 1 or more ANP's and one or more EP's. This is a theory, yes, but it works for me. I am working with my EP's and along with that work am getting more to the gist of the matter. I am able to see 'facets' of myself. And one appeared this week VERY clearly. And I am attempting to tease her apart so that I can understand her more.
The thing is, she is triggered into psychosis I believe. No sense of reality what-so-ever. She completely loses it. She wants to die. She doesn't know how to die. She sees no other way out. I believe that she wants to die so badly that she 'develops' psychosomatic illnesses. Needless to say, this is a really difficult thing for me to fess up. Tough shit, but I think it is what is happening here. And I need to take it seriously. Because they are really serious illnesses. And they are happening. Alot. Does that make them psychosomatic?
Anyways, I am really asking here if anyone believes that there may possibly be a 'facet' of them that they get lost into that goes .... well psychotic. I mean, when I think of psychotic normally I think of someone who is not all there. I have these two certain triggers (I believe), that have me acting psychotic (my words, I haven't been diagnosed). I believe it to be true to me because there is NO sense of an ANP or the normal sense about me even when I dissociative. It is like this one stands on its own. Sorry if this doesn't make sense to people, but if it does to someone.....thoughts please?
Here is what Van der Hart has to say about it as far as SD goes. Maybe it rings a bell of some sort?
Onno van der Hart
Dissociative psychosis implies a division of the personality amendable by psychotherapy
Although Dissociative Psychosis (DP) is not not currently recognized as a formal diagnostic category or syndrome, specialists in the field of trauma-related dissociation have argued that doing so has great clinical value. Originally called hysterical psychosis, this syndrome has been documented in a number of traumatized patients with diagnoses ranging from posttraumatic stress disorder to dissociative identity disorder (DID). From the perspective of the theory of structural dissociation of the personality it has been proposed that for a psychotic disorder or episode to be recognized as DP, it should be embedded in a dissociation of the personality, and, by definition, dissociative symptoms should be present. Psychotic symptoms are dissociative in nature when they pertain to goal-directed actions or other important features of one or more emotional parts of the personality that the patient as apparently normal part of the personality can, therefore, not control. In this presentation the dissociative nature of DP will be described, as well as its various forms and ways of resolving the psychosis using psychotherapy (often including elements of hypnosis).
The thing is, she is triggered into psychosis I believe. No sense of reality what-so-ever. She completely loses it. She wants to die. She doesn't know how to die. She sees no other way out. I believe that she wants to die so badly that she 'develops' psychosomatic illnesses. Needless to say, this is a really difficult thing for me to fess up. Tough shit, but I think it is what is happening here. And I need to take it seriously. Because they are really serious illnesses. And they are happening. Alot. Does that make them psychosomatic?
Anyways, I am really asking here if anyone believes that there may possibly be a 'facet' of them that they get lost into that goes .... well psychotic. I mean, when I think of psychotic normally I think of someone who is not all there. I have these two certain triggers (I believe), that have me acting psychotic (my words, I haven't been diagnosed). I believe it to be true to me because there is NO sense of an ANP or the normal sense about me even when I dissociative. It is like this one stands on its own. Sorry if this doesn't make sense to people, but if it does to someone.....thoughts please?
Here is what Van der Hart has to say about it as far as SD goes. Maybe it rings a bell of some sort?
Onno van der Hart
Dissociative psychosis implies a division of the personality amendable by psychotherapy
Although Dissociative Psychosis (DP) is not not currently recognized as a formal diagnostic category or syndrome, specialists in the field of trauma-related dissociation have argued that doing so has great clinical value. Originally called hysterical psychosis, this syndrome has been documented in a number of traumatized patients with diagnoses ranging from posttraumatic stress disorder to dissociative identity disorder (DID). From the perspective of the theory of structural dissociation of the personality it has been proposed that for a psychotic disorder or episode to be recognized as DP, it should be embedded in a dissociation of the personality, and, by definition, dissociative symptoms should be present. Psychotic symptoms are dissociative in nature when they pertain to goal-directed actions or other important features of one or more emotional parts of the personality that the patient as apparently normal part of the personality can, therefore, not control. In this presentation the dissociative nature of DP will be described, as well as its various forms and ways of resolving the psychosis using psychotherapy (often including elements of hypnosis).