Hello, please let me introduce my self, I am a woman who has struggled with complex PTSD and is no stranger to dissociated self states. For many years I made no progress with doctors who thought my illness was inherently organic, like schizoaffective and wished to medicate (antipsychotics and SSRI's) thus and saw little use in psychotherapy, ie, talking about the meaning of the inner voices, dreams, and subconcious material or the memories of past abuse . I was filled with unspoken rage and frustration. Until, I took control of my own healing. I studied every aspect of trauma and dissociation and learnt what my doctors did not. I discovered that DID and disscociative disorders are a big political battlefield in the psychiatric field and the issue of abuse a bigger one in the whole of society. at the bottom of it is money, insurance money and the fact that Pdocs work mainly in pharmacuticles now, so they have no investment in therapy other than short term, shallow behavioural ones like CBT or cheap "mindfulness" band aids. I was so frustrated with the half assed treatment, I was about to just throw up my hands and be done with all doctors rather than be constantly facing invalidation. I have changed my doctors. It matters little to me if a doctor belives or not, if they are only providing me with meds, they have nothing else to offer. My real work was done with psychodymamic and analytical psychotherapy, with a Pdoc (one of the last of a dying breed who still provides this). I no longer need to take any meds and never hope to again, although I take councelling now and then. Please take charge of your healing, find out and research what you know, from good educational sources.