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The Distracter is a label for a common Guardian personality subself which tries to protect vulnerable Inner Kids by causing the host person to avoid scary awarenesses, clear thinking, and mental focusing. Common symptoms of the well-meaning Distracter at work are mind racing or churning, having a "short attention span," feeling spacey, difficulty listening to others, drifting off, excessive daydream-ing and fantasizing, and chronic forgetfulness. These traits can also come from having many subselves being active at once without common purpose or coordination. Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) may be a symptom of both of these conditions. Where this is true, medication may mute ADD symptoms, but will not reduce the false-self dominance that promotes them. An active Distracter distrusts the Regular personality subselves to keep one or more vulnerable inner Kids and/or the host person safe enough. Effective false-self wound recovery (Project 1) can (a) grow such trust and (b) free the Distracter to choose a more productive role among the host person's team of talented subselves. detail / slides / Project-1 guidebook & links / skeptical? / Q&A / close |
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