Monday, April 26, 2021

Why can't I Decide what to Answer on those "Yes or No" / "This or That" Personality Tests?

Same thing used to happen to me when I took psychometric tests or plowed through recovery workbooks (I've done two dozen). I still have a "big yellow mental school bus" full of brats in a food fight, and they rarely agree on much of anything. But Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Mind-Body Bridging Therapy (MBBT) and other therapies built a "driver" who can pull over and intervene. (The driver is likely to have different point of view, as well.)

Early life trauma may induce Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and splitting (in my reply to the OP on that Reddit thread) to try to deal with the CPTSD by protecting the abused and/or neglected / abandoned child from the overwhelming terror of realizing what the hell is going on in a world where he or she is fully dependent upon others for his or her very survival. Which may ultimately lead to a collection of Personality Disorder traits called Borderline (or Dissociative Identity) PD to "structuralize" that splitting. And those trait systems get "stored" in various default mode networks that make up an Internal Family System in the brain.

See The Abused Child's Awful Dilemma and Dissociation in Depth.

BUT, there is a way OUT. See...

The Internal Family Systems Model: The Freeway Onramp Out of CPTSD > BPD Hell?,

The 10 StEPs component of Choiceless Awareness for Emotion Processing, and the rest of...

A 21st Century Recovery Program for Someone with Untreated Childhood Trauma... because IME there's a LOT one can do without spending a fortune on psychotherapy, as well as to speed up the process if one is in therapy or at least at the fourth of the five stages of therapeutic recovery.

References & Resources:

A CPTSD Library

Section One: Basic explanations & recovery activities

Section Two: More advanced

Section Three: Neurobiology

Section Four: BPD as an Upshot of CPTSD

Section Five: Critical Thinking

Section Six: Workbooks

Section Seven: Workbooks Specifically on Anger Processing

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