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Originally Posted by amandalouise
lydia I love it that you feel comfortable in expressing yourself with this psychiatrist.
if this was me though there are a couple changes I would make for me. I wouldnt just assume my psychiatrist doesnt believe me just because of the questions "what if it doesnt exist" "what if it does exist".
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Thanks so much for the suggestions. I will definitely take them into account. As far as a team meeting, I just had one. He told the entire team there was no scientific proof behind EMDR. ( I told my therapist this, she's so professional, so I didn't think she would get upset, she was upset. I guess because it came from a psychiatrist and not a patient, IDK.) But now my psychiatrist isn't allowing me to pursue a trauma unit to keep myself safe during the initial trauma work, because he doesn't seem too convinced I have trauma to begin with. He dragged my in his office afterward and kept pestering me "why do you have to recover the memories, what if they never happened". I told them during the meeting that I wasn't safe on an outpatient basis and either I had to terminate therapy or I had to start therapy in a more safe environment. He didn't want me to go to the trauma unit, so I terminated. I'm not going to risk my life. I actually feel better since terminating. Like I'm not constantly going to walk off a cliff at any second. It's sad because this only means I've managed to become comfortably numb and in the end that's terrible for you.
So his opinions are effecting our life. He's told us in the past "EMDR doesn't work and DID doesn't really exist".