So, how do you deal with angry alters? Especially when such an alter is one of the strongest at the time? Medication? Well, with my angry alter, Sally, she needs about 4 times as much medication to get her calm than I need. She runs on pure rage and adrenalin, totally unrational and illogical. How are you supposed to deal with that? Sally also refuses to actively participate or cooperate with my therapy, how does that work? The problem is, with an alter like Sally, you make little to no actual progress until the alter starts to cooperate and integrate into therapy.
I don't know whether some of you are the same but Sally also suffers from what's called 'delusional separateness'. Putting it simply, she cannot even consider the idea that she's a multiple. She believes she has her own individual body and the rest of us share. That's also a problem as it means her homicidal and aggressive tendencies get let out against other alters, and also puts us in very dangerous situations as she believes she's in no danger at all!
Today's blog post was partly to see if there's anyone with any answers to that. I'll be writing tomorrow with a more helpful post, but curiosity got the better of me today! What doesn't help is the co-strongest alter, David, has decided to disappear. We haven't heard from him since last night and he's the only one who has any form of control over Sally. I really don't know what to do. If anything it could end up with us being in hospital again, although of course Sally doesn't believe she'd be coming with us. We've managed to stay out for about three and a half months now, I'd like to make that gap a LOT bigger!!
Any responses are welcome and appreciated. If its worked for you, offer it. If you've heard about it from a friend, offer it. Don't be scared about 'sounding stupid'. You're talking to someone who is about 18 people at the moment!
Take care all :)
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