Posted by Dinah on June 14, 2003, at 11:24:16
In reply to Re: Been reading up on DID/MPD » Dinah, posted by judy1 on June 14, 2003, at 11:05:18
Oh, I don't want to give the wrong impression. My therapist is very accepting. He's worked with DID patients back when they were MPD patients in his prior job. He's pretty calm about anything I bring up. Way back at the beginning of our therapy, I got the feeling he didn't want to open that can of worms, so I talked around things for a long time. But I finally told him how uncomfortable it made me, and I guess it had been long enough that he wasn't afraid of creating an iatrogenic phenomenom, because he started being more accepting. Now he accepts what I tell him as being a true representation of what I experience. And he certainly wouldn't refuse to speak to me as whatever ego state I was in.
My pdoc is a different story. Based on his reaction to simple things like SI and suicidal ideation, I get the distinct feeling he would be a skeptic of dissociation. I don't know for sure because nothing could induce me to tell him about it. I tentatively started to tell him one day that I had problems with dissociation, and got no further than that before he had offered me an antipsychotic. I clammed up and haven't brought it up, and won't bring it up.
It's the literature that makes me feel ashamed. I guess I should never have done any reading. :(
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