Before anyone says it, yes, I have a therapist.
In any case, this is, as you might imagine, very important to me. I say “i had nightmares when i was a kid” like i dont still get night terrors as a 22 year old adult. The first panel of this is actually based on a photo my mom took of me in a sleep study when I was fifteen. It was one of the harder times in my life, honestly, but things have been steadily getting better since then. all the dreams here are based on ones i actually had, and theres a ton of old comics and drawings of them on my old deviantart from when i was a teenager.
that’s all really, theres no end goal here, nothing im looking to accomplish other than sharing.
Can you link resources on trauma repression guardian personalities?
I… Think something clicked just now.
Would either of you happen to have resources on this or know someone who might? (tagging House of Chimeras since this seems related to system stuff.)
Unfortunately I can’t really think of any resources for guardian personalities specifically that aren’t drenched in “everyone with personalities/headpeople/etc has DID and everyone’s DID works according to this specific model”, because the idea of people with specific roles in a headspace really got bound up with that in the literature.
But I know some folks who might: @solipsistful?
(Also, I just really like this comic in general? Like, I don’t know, just the way it’s presented just feels very normalising. Just like “yeah this happens to people sometimes”.)
@star-anise, you have any potentially useful stuff on this?







