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Trying to get through to my rebellious teenage personality part

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Hello everyone,

I can't remember when I mentioned this before, but I have mentioned before on this website that I have a dissociative disorder in which my personality is split into multiple parts. It's complicated, and I can go into it more if anyone has any questions, but I just wanted to take some time to say something about one of my younger personality parts.

On the inside, I have a younger personality part who is an angry and rebellious teenager. When she is out, she often listens to angry music, has an attitude that says "don't talk to me", and often feels terrible about her life or about herself. She's the part of me that holds a lot of feelings about my abuse from when I was a teenager, and right now she's struggling a lot with her identity.

I'm teaming up with another personality part of mine, who also identifies as Christian, to try to get through to her and let her know that God loves her. At the moment, she thinks our attempts to help her are stupid and throws any help we try to give her back in our faces. I don't think she believes in God's love and mercy for her, and I just think that's very sad. She's got an angry attitude and thinks that God would never want to love her.

I wish there were something more I could do to help her... If anyone has any support to lend or any reminders of Christ's love, that would be super awesome, for sure. Otherwise, thank you for taking the time to read this. I really do appreciate it. :heart:
 
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