Prologue (7) Past traumatic experiences should be “narrativated”in order to be integrated to the main self-consciousness

Here we consider a very stressful experience and an EP is about to be developed. What aspect of that experience has a “dissociogenic” (Okano, 1993) nature: a nature which leads to pathological dissociative process? One of the answers should be that that experience never gets a chance to be “narrativated”; verbally described or symbolically expressed. If a traumatized person never has a chance to have someone to talk to about the experience, he would end up keeping its memory separated from the main body of the experiences.
Allow me to use these awkward terms such as narrativate, narrativation and so on. What I really mean by them is that the experiences should be put into words in order to be properly stored in the main body of memory system. As we successfully put our experiences into our main memory system, we bring them to an end and continue to move forward in our life with new experiences.
This explains why it is so much a part of our nature to talk to others (including to ourselves) about our experiences, mundane or serious, that occur in our daily life. Our brain has a natural tendency to verbalize our thoughts and feeling, even such minute and insignificant mutters, as “oh, it is very cold this morning “or “I’m starved to death”etc. We thus can process these experiences, put them into our memory system order to consolidate them.
When we experience some traumatic events, our mind gets into a state specific to that trauma. If that trauma is verbalized to others and gets reflected by the others ‘mind, no major shift of mind occurs, such as the one described in the diagram #2 (A →　A’) . Otherwise, the major shift of personality really occurs and a new identity or self-state (A’) develops.
A similar question　might　arise here again,　that　is　whether　we　might　have　DID　if　we　have traumatic experiences that we cannot　verbally　process. “Of course, not necessarily” I would reply. Most of us would not develop multiple personality as a result of our inability to verbally express our traumatic experiences. But perhaps quite often we might have some states of mind which are unprocessed and unintegrated, similar to the condition with DID. I will next show such an example.