Post by Katie on Apr 9, 2009 7:07:27 GMT
Does having an inner child mean I am MPD / DID ?.
One of the reasons that MPD (Multiple Personality Disorder) was reclassified as DID (disassociative identity disorder) was due to the developments in, and understanding gained from, inner child therapy. It has become clearer in recent years that disassociation in adults, traumatized as children, covers a wide range of effects and symptoms. DID is at one end of that scale, and no disassociation at all is at the other. In-between these two end points are many other stages and effects, plus of course, people can be at different points within this range at different times. These different points can include among others :-
* Derealisation: where you may feel as if you (and / or your surroundings) do not seem real, or experience your surroundings through a diffused light, fog or mist.
* Depersonalisation: where you may feel as if you are "outside of your body" or detached from your body, as though you are either standing alongside, above or behind it.
* For some it may just be a feeling of been younger when afraid, after a nightmare etc.
Fewer people these days are clinically diagnosed with DID these days compared to even a couple of years ago, and the understanding of the disassociative coping range is changing constantly.
As we have said, DID is just the top end of the scale, and having an inner child may only be an indicator that you are somewhere on that scale. Much in the same was as having a skate board, car, bus or an f15 fighter jet are all different stages on the scale of having your own transport.
In general, you talk to an innerchild, when you are DID you become them.
One of the reasons that MPD (Multiple Personality Disorder) was reclassified as DID (disassociative identity disorder) was due to the developments in, and understanding gained from, inner child therapy. It has become clearer in recent years that disassociation in adults, traumatized as children, covers a wide range of effects and symptoms. DID is at one end of that scale, and no disassociation at all is at the other. In-between these two end points are many other stages and effects, plus of course, people can be at different points within this range at different times. These different points can include among others :-
* Derealisation: where you may feel as if you (and / or your surroundings) do not seem real, or experience your surroundings through a diffused light, fog or mist.
* Depersonalisation: where you may feel as if you are "outside of your body" or detached from your body, as though you are either standing alongside, above or behind it.
* For some it may just be a feeling of been younger when afraid, after a nightmare etc.
Fewer people these days are clinically diagnosed with DID these days compared to even a couple of years ago, and the understanding of the disassociative coping range is changing constantly.
As we have said, DID is just the top end of the scale, and having an inner child may only be an indicator that you are somewhere on that scale. Much in the same was as having a skate board, car, bus or an f15 fighter jet are all different stages on the scale of having your own transport.
In general, you talk to an innerchild, when you are DID you become them.
www.aest.org.uk/innerchild/basic-questions-answers-on-inner-child-work.php
