I'm not offended. I'm just explaining why I understand both the feelings behind this thread and the reasons the moderators don't want to make changes.

I don't think I ever said I'm the only one who gets uncomfortable on this board or that things should be arranged so I never feel uncomfortable. I feel like I said the opposite of that, actually. So again, your long post replying to what I said point by point feels like a lecture or a correction. Of course you are entitled to have your own goals in therapy and to feel what you feel. I'm talking about why I (me, not you) don't feel comfortable in the DID discussions. I think I'm also entitled to my feelings, no?

In all fairness, I know there are different therapeutic approaches to DID and different ways of looking at it. When we go into therapy we have to make choices about what feels helpful and what doesn't. It's hard for me to understand why anyone would want to maintain a dissociative identity structure as a normal way of being in the world, but I know some people do, and that's their right.

So again, I'm not attacking you. If this what you describe is helpful to you then of course by all means pursue it. I'm saying it isn't helpful to ME. I don't see why you feel it's so terrible to share that. I see it as a legitimate and important issue in psychotherapy, and the fact that the DSM changed the diagnostic category from MPD (which implies separate personalities or people) to DID (which implies various aspects on one person separated by dissociation by trauma) seems to support that it's a controversial topic and OK to discuss.

I'm also sorry if I've offended you in some way. That wasn't my intent.