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Self-parenting and Dissociative Identity Disorder
Healing Yourself from the Inside Out
Many who live with dissociative identity disorder fantasize about their birth parents showing up and loving them unconditionally. While we all know this isn’t possible, it leads to one conclusion: we must learn to parent ourselves.
In this article, we shall explore self-parenting when you have DID.
The Inner Child
Everyone, not only multiples, has a part of themselves that never entirely grew up to adulthood called the inner child. The inner child is a part of your subconscious mind that has gleaned messages from before you could process what those messages were. The inner child holds memories, emotions, and beliefs from past experiences and is responsible for our hopes and dreams for the future.
When one has dissociative identity disorder, there are usually several inner children who are stuck in the memories of trauma time, the period when you were actively being maltreated.
Sometimes, when multiples are triggered, it may seem like they are coming out of the blue but originate from your inner children. The triggers are often negative and can lead to negative emotions, actions, or thinking.
