Posted by Dinah on August 21, 2005, at 9:25:07
In reply to Re: I » Dinah, posted by alexandra_k on August 20, 2005, at 21:48:14
Yes that's it exactly. And your comments on it have made me think.
Although I must confess that I don't think of Dinah 2 or Dinah 3 as being psychological entities. *That* I reserve for emotional and intellectual me. I guess it's because the mood states lack the thing that I consider to separate psychological entities, the sense of being an entity. The "I think, therefore I am."
And the "patterns of beliefs / desires / preferences / emotions / memories" are not as distinct. For example, feelings about the people in my immediate life. Emotional me always feels attached to my therapist and likes him. Rational me thinks he's a shallow moneyhungry boob. (Hmmm... maybe all of me thinks he's a boob, but in different senses of the word.) There are similar splits about other people in my life. And goals and priorities are fundamentally different. Ways of presenting myself are different. Views of the world are different.
The mood state differences are not as profound. But there is a bit of that, and I should consider the possibility of a lesser degree of dissociation. I know that everyone has mood states, and different states based on who you're with, and things like that...
To me, it seems like the disconnect between those states is a bit more profound for me. Not enough to impair my ability to function, but enough to make my life feel choppy and discontinuous and to shake my sense of who I am and what's important to me. It probably also gets in the way of my ability to work, since working is only important to me sometimes. I think working for Daddy counterbalanced that, because at the times when "working" wasn't important "Daddy" was.
I wonder how much of it is perception. Although perhaps a lot of this whole topic is based on perception.
Thanks, Alexandra.
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