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Tapping

Wheezie
Wheezie
(Trigger warning)

Today I took my daughter to her therapist. It's slow going with her and she's taking her good ole time but I did get confirmation about how abusers use tapping to switch you into vulnerable alters that they can abuse. I told her how my host would come out when the last man who raped me was taking me somewhere and ask why am I here and where the hell are we going.This man would tap my leg or shoulder to switch me as a fear response into vulnerable child alter and then he would manipulate them acting as a friend,isolate and violate them and make them split.My daughter therapist knew exactly what I was talking about. She said abusers know how to do that they learn it from birth.Evil mother fuckers.
theblackrose
theblackrose
I hate that. I remember some of my abusers tapping my head or face and I drove me crazy and I hated it, I just wanted to die. There are still people in my life that do that and they know it bugs me... -Bailey
dualforce35
dualforce35
I have heard of tapping but never experienced it until last week except in a different manner. Certain touches have always triggered me but they never brought out the littles, usually my defense mechanisms come up. However, in this case a woman I know came up to me and placed her hands over my shoulder bone and tapped lightly. A little immediately came out and started sobbing. Once her hand was removed the little became less tramatized and within a few minutes was no longer out. I found it weird at the time but maybe this is the same thing?
stephanietram
stephanietram
I thought tapping was a method to control anxiety attacks.
Wheezie
Wheezie
Yes Dualforce it is. The man who did this to me is married to a woman who was molested in her youth as well. She displayed clear signs of multiplicity when my husband and I confronted her with the truth about him.He met her when she was also devastated from a break up and has raped and subjugated her into a relationship with him for 25 years now. He has had 25 years to learn how to manipulate someone with MPD and he knows exactly how to do it. Abusers are as evil as they come. We have basically completely psychologically profiled him.There will be no where for him to run when the cops finally arrest him.
theblackrose
theblackrose
Mommy does that!! Mommy and sissy. They scratch us and tap our shoulder and back when we say something wrong like tonight. Sissy scratched our back up. There's probably scars. It hurts so bad, cause we were on here instead of listening to the man talking. -Joe and Jessie
deleted_user
deleted_user
Is that why it drives me so batshit crazy if someone taps my chest or pats my arm?! I've had my face grabbed several times. It's torture. I feel enraged just talking about it.
Wheezie
Wheezie
Yes Raisingirl that's probably your angry part getting pissed that someone is trying to switch you.

Stephanie, I am sure tapping could be used to switch someone into an alter that is less anxious.That is most likely how it works.I know hypnotist use tapping to implant suggestions as well.
stephanietram
stephanietram
I guess the suggestion thing is what I learned about. There are videos on You-tube for tapping to be used for all kinds of things like stress reduction. I've used it once or twice and it helped,. but I felt stupid doing it so I stopped. Maybe there was some underlying stuff bothering me that made me not like it.
Your comments make me think.