Send Your Replies to Anon2, who would like to hear about your first experience of 'switching'.

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Gee, Anon2,

This is hard for me to remember...it all happened so long ago! Once when I was still a kid I had 'bad thoughts' and threw myself over the end of the bed to stop the 'badness'. I'm sure that was a switch, because I was 'chasing away' a certain part of myself.

I'm sure I was 'switching' when I'd walk through berry bushes and never feel the scratches until later. And as an adult I had one very scary 'switch' when a guy I thought of as a 'date' turned out to be a no-goodnik. I even called the cops on him, afterwards...because I actually became 'two people' at once (very scary & unusual for me). & I did NOT like what he did. So I switched long before therapy. IN therapy, I don't remember switching a lot (though I probably did) because I was so on-guard and not trusting anyone. Including (often) my own quite-experienced, quite nice therapist.

I'm curious about what others will say, too.

Lynn W.