Complex trauma can leave even a non-dissociative person feeling “inhuman”. Some abusers are known to force children to act like animals, for example making them bark or use a dog bowl for food.Animal alters may also be created if the person was forced to harm others, as a way of containing the guilt of having to act in a way which feels more violent and animal than human. Alters may also become to believe they are animals because abusers either told them they were or treated them like animals, e.g., dog alters. Animals like tigers may function as protectors, growling when an Apparently Normal Part is distressed. Animal parts may be able to express emotions that the Apparently Normal Parts can”t. Despite their name, some EPs are not emotional.Īnimal Alters Abused children may develop animal parts/alters because they identify with animals and consider them friends. All identities within a person can be categorized as ANPs or EPs. Tasks involving daily life are managed by ANPs instead, e.g., working, cooking and parenting. An ANP may be emotionally unconnected to, or amnesiac for, past traumatic events.Įmotional Parts (EPs) Emotional Parts of the Personality (EP) “hold traumatic memory, often being stuck in the sensory experience of the memory and unaware of the passage of time. ![]() There may be more than one ANP managing daily life at any one time, each with different roles. This is the identity who manages every day life and does not normally hold trauma memories. according to the Trauma Association.Īpparently Normal Parts (ANPs) This term had previously been called a “host personality” or “host”. People who are “very fragmented” (have a very large number of parts) may also have complex mixtures of ANP and EP. In additional, each can have one or more type or role, for example a child alter may also be a protector. All alters can be broadly classed as either Apparently Normal Parts of the Personality (ANPs), or Emotional Parts of the Personality (EPs).
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