How Do You Integrate Young Child Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) Alter Parts?
People with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) often have one or more alter parts who are children. People with DID were severely traumatized as children on an ongoing basis beginning at a young age, so many of their childhood needs were never met. Child alter parts often hold the residue of those unmet needs, such as the need to feel safe or have fun. Those needs have remained unmet and must be healed in adulthood in order to integrate child alter parts. Child alter parts are generally the emotional age that you were when you split off the alter part, so child alter parts typically talk and write like a child of that age. Here is how to integrate a young child Dissociative Identity Disorder alter part. Establish communication with your young child alter parts. You can do this through writing them messages in a notebook or by trying to talk with them inside of your own head. In either case, use the same communication skills that you would use in talking with any young child. Draw car
