AlicetheKurious wrote: She IS a child the way children really are.
I've known this woman a long time, and never once did it occur to me that she could have DID and that "the child" could be an alter.
My question was: can this manifestation result from trauma induced in an adult? As I mentioned before, the doctor who treated her for 10 years was implicated in the MK-Ultra experiments.
Or must it have originated in childhood?
This has happened to people i know in front of me. Its a bit freaky.
I think the trauma must occur in childhood, as the regression is a way to return to pre traumatised self.
The trauma of abuse removes trust and a sense of safety.
I think that to be able to feel those things, ie to feel safe or be able to trust, the personality must ground itself in a self that has not yet experienced the pain and suffering that caused the loss of trust and safety.
It seems this process is manipulated by those who are involved in trauma based MC programs.
I don't understand how it could be manipulated in an adult without having something happen beforehand in childhood.
MC seems to be about breaking the continuity that links our various selves.
It would seem to me that unless some trauma occurred in childhood, the break in continuity would not lead back to there.
I do wonder if its possible for people with the training to take advantage of childhood trauma that hasn't been dealt with. Not cause the trauma directly, but manipulate the person based on their self reference to that event.
I know adults with PTSD, and their response usually seems different to regression. More a fight or flight thing.
One of the advantages of attacking children seems to be that they are powerless in that they cannot resort to fight or flight.
IE If I am in the shit and can't get away, well I will go off. It doesn't matter if I am gonna die at least you will hurt and I will take as many of the bastards with me as I can. Children don't seem to have that option, tho some who are traumatised by violence learn the attitude earlier than others.
The ability to strike out is all that matters in this case. if your arms are free you can so to speak. But some children can't.
I got my first martial arts grading as a child, I was under 10, this way.
The bloke who taught the class picked me up. he was at least 6 feet tall, and a black belt with who knows how many Dans.
He asked me "How would you get out of this."
Maybe I should have poked him in the eye, (impossible to do actually), but instead I asked "will you put me down?"
To which he did, and awarded me the grade.
The truth is that if that bloke hadn't wanted to put me down there was very lttle I could have done to make him do so.
That powerlessness is reinforced in trauma based MC.
Its a lot harder to reinforce that powerlessness in someone after puberty cos they have a greater chance of getting lucky with a swing or a kick or an attempt to bite someones throat out.
Part of MC seems to be about removing someones ability to fight back.
Some childhood trauma promotes the ability to fight back. MC seems to take trauma and deliberately remove that potential from it.