Defense Mechanisms and Multiple Personalities: There Can Be Healing with Understanding

Several books were instrumental in helping me to heal. During the early 1990s, my inquisitive mind began to make healthy decisions more often than unhealthy ones. By the way, that was the first level of my recovery from staying sick all the time - that level called "seeking answers to why I am unhealthy all the time." I was 'sick and tired of being sick and tired.' Rather than continuing to complain for the last fifty years of my life about my illnesses, I decided to do the opposite in order to reverse the wheels of my life to turn toward a well direction.

One of the books that I read was by Truddi Chase. Truddi wrote "When Rabbit Howls," and it later became a New York Times #1 Bestseller. This book, written in order for Truddi to share with the world a description of her ninety-two voices that lived within her, describes her defense mechanisms. These defense Trojans were designed to help Truddi deal with her childhood. My Trojans totaled thirteen in number and what I know today taught me to understand that if I had not built the Trojans, I might have died. Truddi, after healing, became a therapist using her life and its trials to help others to heal from similar problems. RoseMeade's Wellness Nook allows me to do the same but without my being a therapist. I am instead a recovering person sharing recovery skills learned along my path. Below is an exercise shared to help others to heal from having dysfunctional defense mechanisms or multi-personality disorders.