By NiteOwlDave
This writer is not a schooled psychiatrist or a therapist.
He is a self-taught online counsellor with 13 years’ experience of helping trauma
and abuse survivors with DID alters get saved and healed through Christ.
The computer and
the human brain have more in common than being mammoth storage bins.
A computer has a System
Restore feature where one can roll back its memory to an earlier time and access
the data that was held and displayed then.
Those who work
with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) have a similar although opposite
ability.
Through the alter personalities,
we are able to access a survivor’s past in “real” time today. Alters bring
forward vivid details of past trauma and abuse, usually from a time in their childhood.
Alters created by
the host person hold painful memories away from the brain so he or she can
survive severe mental damage that could prompt suicide or have a survivor institutionalized. The alters and the host are called a system.
When trust is
established between a knowledgeable therapist or counsellor and a patient,
details of what happened in a client’s past can be learned. With time, the
alters can be healed and integrated back in to one, the host.
I suggest the process
is much easier if the Lord Jesus Christ is asked to lead the therapist or
counsellor during sessions. Christ will bring to the surface the alters who need
the most immediate help.
If demons are attached
to the alters, as often they are, Christ – and Christ alone – must lead the
way.
If we draw upon
any other source of power in the spiritual realm, we are asking for trouble. All other spiritual sources are of
Satan. That’s a broad accusation, but it is true.
Accessing a
survivor’s past requires switching, where an alter - and there are usually
dozens or more – is called forward or “out.”
Much of what alters
will share about the secrets they hold with a trusted outsider is seldom know
by the host before healing and integration take place.
We will not address
healing and integration here. Nor shall we look at the mental
and spiritual fallout to children from Satanic Ritual Abuse (SRA) with its torture,
evil rituals and programming.
It is
understandable that a host is shocked to learn what he or she went through as a
child. But it immediately helps the host to understand why he/she loses time
and it accounts for memory loss from the switching of personalities.
System Restore in the
memory of a survivor of severe trauma and hurt is like peeling an onion of
buried hurt.
(Note: Alters and
the host use the same vocal cords.)
Alters can prompt
a smile, too. Not everything with DID is so serious. Following are tidbit items
from I have gathered from alters who interact with their hosts –
· * One
alter advised me to be careful not to step on “land mines” when I go outside.
The host had no clue what the young one was talking about. It turned out the
alter, age five, was recounting what
she had been warned to avoid stepping on at her age. “Land
mines” mean dog poop.
· * A
child alter wondered out loud if she was going to get many “prezzies” this
year. The host cut in and exclaimed, “My word, I haven’t heard that word for 40
years. I remember that I asked my mother that once at Christmas.”
· * I once
had a hand in teaching a child alter how to work a straw. She got the hang of
sucking up the chocolate milk the host bought for her but quickly discovered it
was more fun to blow and make bubbles.
· * Another
flashback word used by a child alter once was “nifty.” Now there’s an old fashioned word.
· * One
time an alter asked me to show her some “films.” Today, films are called Cds or
videos.
· * Another
alter asked the host to show her the cartoon All Dogs Go To Heaven. That movie was suddenly remembered by the
host.
