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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 men-tal 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, ex-cessive daydreaming and fantasizing, and chronic forgetfulness. These traits can also come from having many subselves being active at once without common purpose or coordination. Atten-tion Deficit Disorder (ADD) may be a symptom of both of these conditions. Where this is true, medication may mute ADD symp-toms, but will not reduce the false-self dominance that promotes them. An active Distracter distrusts the Manager personality sub-selves to keep one or more Inner Kids and the host person safe enough. False-self wound recovery (Lesson 1) can grow this trust and free the Distracter to choose a more productive role among the host person's team of talented subselves. More detail |
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