Re: consultation with therapist today

astri <invalid@example.com> writes:

> On Sun, 14 Oct 2007, emerging butterfly wrote:
>
>> The therapist I was working with kept asking various people inside,
>> "are you the true self/core?" The therapist I most recently
>
> how is anyone supposed to be able to answer that question?
>
> best we have ever been able to come up with is that we don't have any
> "original" person. the original hasn't existed since we became we.
> did she split? or did she simply evolve into several? no clue. but it
> means that none of us and all of us are the original.

Each of us is our own original person. The person born here (the b*dy)
isn't here anymore at all.

> we never found the concept of a core self to be useful.

Nor us.

jp

>> interviewed believes that each insider/subpersonality has some
>> semblance of the real Self.
>
> this is prolly closer to what we think, but we wouldn't go so far as to
> identify *a* real self. we're all real. we are all different selves.
>
>> I agree, I think, but I feel way more grounded in self in some
>> personalities than others.
>
> yes, true
>
> think it might be related for us to the degree of damage to the
> individual
>
> -- astri
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