DID Working with parts in therapy

[WhisperingUnicorn]

How do you identify your "internal self helper" and how does this differ from "host"? (Directed mainly at @Dissociated1 but anyone can feel free to describe further!)

~WU

 

[Dissociated1]

My Inner Self Helper is one of the 5 alters of my System. He is a high level, non-narcissistic alter who works in the background juggling who fronts, who knows what, and who is coconscious with who. He is not the birth/original personality, but the supervisory personality responsible for the well being of the System/Self. The concept was first described by noted trauma specialist, Dr. Ralph B. Allison, M.D. and is widely accepted in current models of DID systems. There was a recent thread on this part of many DID systems. Lots of good info at http://www.dissociation.com/index/Manuals/RXWISH.TXT

I feel fortunate to have an alter who serves in this capacity and see it as one of the reasons my System has been so successful. My ISH is coconsious with all of my alters although we are not necessarily privy to his thoughts, and he expresses himself through us. Neither me or my therapist are able to communicate with him directly but he may chose to respond to something she says, or I am thinking by forming an idea in my head. My 13 year old female alter is the spokesman for the rest of the peanut gallery and I suspect she is at least partially coconscious with my ISH.

 

[BlueOrange]

How do you identify your "internal self helper" and how does this differ from "host"? (Direc...

On those occasions when I ask myself what my therapist would say, I'm likely to get a helpful answer. Not always an accurate one, but a helpful one.