can emotional parts (EPs) be hosts, or front a lot?
oh for sure.
while we do think it’s commonly understood that apparently normal parts (anps) usually front the most while the eps don’t front, this isn’t always the case.
we have members in our system who are eps and front often. granted, they usually are separated from our anps when they front, but that doesn’t stop them from fronting regularly.
we’re sure there are plenty of systems out there with emotional parts who are hosts or do their best to handle day-to-day functioning. it may be significantly harder for eps than anps to manage this, but we’re sure they still find ways to make it work :)
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i looked through your directory before asking this but i feel kind of scattered so sorry if i missed something
it possible to age regress by only a few years and as a teen? i'm 15 and was 1) bullied by basically my entire class from ages 7-13 due to autism and queerness, 2) very severely bullied at 12-13 especially, and 3) manipulated by several of my friends when i was 13 (i know that sounds stupid bc they were 13yos but idk it felt really bad).
i'm away from those people now, but whenever i'm particularly strongly reminded of some of the stuff that happened, i feel like i'm 12 or younger again. like not just in a "i feel like im experiencing this stuff again emotionally" way, though i do, but also in the "i literally feel like i'm younger" way. like im reduced to the emotional capacity and understanding of situations that i had when i was 12, 11, or 10, and i also feel as out of place among "big kids" as i did when i was those ages (even though 14/15/16yos are my peers and friends)
is this age regression? or even a trauma thing at all?
absolutely, age regression (in a trauma context) is just another term for / way of experiencing emotional flashbacks. your emotional/trauma part(s) [remember that E/TPs exist outside of DID in the Theory of Structural Dissociation] are activated when you're triggered and these parts of you are emotionally still the age that you were when the trauma was happening, so you feel as if the trauma is happening now (including you being that age).
more on flashbacks:
managing flashbacks
infographic on flashbacks
questions about flashbacks
more on EPs and the ToSD:
posts about the ToSD in my directory (which you may have already seen)
Trauma Informed Stabilisation Treatment for Structural Dissociation (blog post by a psychologist)
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A couple EPs in a room... they might cry.
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“He never had any real hope in the affair from the beginning; but being a cheerful hobbit he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed.”
The comic is based on a scene from the chapter “The passage of the marshes”
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hi!! do you have any posts about emotional parts in BPD? I'm trying to understand them better and oh man am I confused
yep, see my bpd parts tag and maybe also my tag on the ptsd -> bpd -> did spectrum.
examples of emotional parts (EP) in BPD:
when someone with BPD splits, that is an emotional part being activated
if you have trauma and are triggered, that's an EP
fearing abandonment is an EP
feeling small like a child is an EP
doing something in the heat of the moment is an EP, especially if later you feel like the actions weren't your own
unstable identity is conflict between EPs
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Oh I realized a thing about the Paul/Feyd-Rautha fight. So usually if you have a big fight scene, but especially if you do something like have a character get injured in a way that would definitely be fatal if they weren't cursed with inescapable Main Character Energy, you follow up the fight scene with some moment of comfort or relief or something, which serves to release the tension for the audience and let them know whew, that was scary, but it's okay now. Your character is hurt but they're gonna survive. (Or alternately, if they're dying heroically, it was worth it and what the narrative demanded.)
But here there's nothing. Paul is surrounded by devoted followers; his mother; his lover; one of his oldest teachers and a loyal servant of House Atreides. No one steps forward to offer a shoulder to lean on or help him to his feet. He's left them all behind. He's not a person who got hurt in a fight anymore; he's a myth that people shrink back from. So he pulls the knife out by himself. He stands up by himself. Other than the emperor very begrudgingly touching his hand to kiss the ring, I don't think anyone touches him at all for the rest of the movie. He's completely alone. They never release that tension, because Paul's alive but it is very much not going to be okay.
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I just think it's really neat how much fans have latched onto the fact that Stephanie Brown was Robin.
Like, both in and out of universe Stephanie was never meant to be taken seriously as Robin. The writers only made her Robin so that her death in War Games would be shocking and Bruce only made her Robin because he thought it would make Tim jealous enough to come back. She only had the mantle for 71 days before being fired (for doing something that literally every other Robin has also done and not been fired over), and she was only active during 50 of them. There are only six issues where Steph is Robin in the canon timeline.
Her final words before her death are asking Batman (Batman, because even on her death bed he doesn't trust her enough to take off his mask) if any of it was real. Was she really Robin? And Batman assures her that of course she was, that she was part of the legend and no one can take it away from her. Except it's a lie, because despite his reassurances, Batman never puts up a memorial or does anything to preserve her memory. He never really thinks of her as Robin, and even her friends will always think of her as Spoiler before ever remembering Robin.
Meanwhile DC spent years ignoring her time as Robin, to the point where it was completely erased from existence for awhile. It's technically back now, because timelines are weird, but unlike the others it's never been altered. She's never been given a second chance at it, no one's ever gone back and added more issues or details about those 71 days, or even seems to want to acknowledge them most of the time.
But fans have clung on to it anyway. Sure, there are lots of people who make Robin posts that are just about the boys, but there are just as many people who are ready to fight anyone who doesn't include her. Maybe it was only for a little while, but she was Robin, and we're sure as hell not going to forget it. If DC isn't going to bother to remember, than we will.
Stephanie Brown was Robin. She was part of the legend. It was real. No matter what, no one can take that away from her.
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