The whole parts thing is really ferosh, but I didn’t come up with it. It actually came from this doctor, Richard C. Schwartz, who created something called internal family systems therapy. According to him, we were all born as a centered self, who is perfect and whole and can handle anything. But as we experience trauma in life, the centered self doesn’t know quite how to deal with it, so it develops pieces of ourselves that we can call upon based on the situations we find ourselves in. It’s not as intense as multiple personality disorder—it’s more, like, we all have these parts in our
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