IFS therapy has changed my life
This is the first year I really finally understood that I have dissociative identity disorder. I had been diagnosed with it by professionals in the past but never really agreed with it because I couldn't see it in myself. Now I finally do. I have become aware of all my lost time and dissociation, and of my many alters.
IFS helped me go from this terrible warring conflict within myself to now my alters and I are all getting along fabulously. A couple of them are nervous it won't last, but I think things are really different this time. It's like I finally understand how to work with....myself? Lol.
For the first time in my life a therapy helped with my chronic severe nightmares. One of the reasons I became dependent on THC was because it stopped me from dreaming. My dreams were torture. It was my alters trying to communicate or being upset with me.
Now that I know how to communicate with and work with these parts of myself, my dreams have been FUN. I hang out with my alters and some of them come up with fun activities for me and the others to do.
It's gone from feeling like I had malicious forces working against me to feeling like I have a team of people supporting me in everything I do. And I support them. I know it sounds crazy but it has helped me to love ALL of myself not just the parts I deem socially acceptable. It has been life-changing. So I don't care if it sounds crazy.
I highly recommend the IFS book No Bad Parts. To anyone, not just those with DID, it is beneficial to anyone to read. IFS can help everyone a ton I think not just those with DID. Everyone has different parts of their personality and different roles they have to play in their lives. With DID it's just a more extreme and fragmented version.
Anyways that was my soapbox speech for today. Internal Family Systems therapy is awesome!
IFS helped me go from this terrible warring conflict within myself to now my alters and I are all getting along fabulously. A couple of them are nervous it won't last, but I think things are really different this time. It's like I finally understand how to work with....myself? Lol.
For the first time in my life a therapy helped with my chronic severe nightmares. One of the reasons I became dependent on THC was because it stopped me from dreaming. My dreams were torture. It was my alters trying to communicate or being upset with me.
Now that I know how to communicate with and work with these parts of myself, my dreams have been FUN. I hang out with my alters and some of them come up with fun activities for me and the others to do.
It's gone from feeling like I had malicious forces working against me to feeling like I have a team of people supporting me in everything I do. And I support them. I know it sounds crazy but it has helped me to love ALL of myself not just the parts I deem socially acceptable. It has been life-changing. So I don't care if it sounds crazy.
I highly recommend the IFS book No Bad Parts. To anyone, not just those with DID, it is beneficial to anyone to read. IFS can help everyone a ton I think not just those with DID. Everyone has different parts of their personality and different roles they have to play in their lives. With DID it's just a more extreme and fragmented version.
Anyways that was my soapbox speech for today. Internal Family Systems therapy is awesome!
