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Originally Posted by Roseheart101
Hi Lydia,
Thanks for telling your story. It was interesting to me. I had a similar experience.
I went to a new psychiatrist because I was having trouble with the first one (another story) and I enjoyed talking to him but I was a little annoyed because he told me that he had a girlfriend in high school that had the same first name as I did. But I thought oh well, that kind of stuff always happens to me and I can deal with it. At the end of the session he wrote out the prescription for me. I vaguely remember spelling my last name. He handed it to me and I put it in my purse.
Imagine my surprise when I got to the store and went to hand it to the pharmacy and it had a totally different last name on it. Of course I had to take it back to the psychiatrist and have him do it again.
At this time I did not know I had DID, so I thought he accidentally put in his ex girl friend's last name instead of mine. Haha. The joke was on me.  |
that has happened to me too. I would vaguely remember spelling what I thought was my last name only to find prescriptions, paperwork, bills... contained different last names. before knowing I had DID I would chalk it up to things like boy that psychiatrist really needs to clean his ears out, or maybe he misheard me... turned out my vaguely remembering to spell my last name was a thought while dissociated and an alter was telling him their last name and how to spell the alters last name.
this happening turned out to be a good thing because after diagnosis my therapist and I were able to round up some files (school, medical and mental health files) and use them to develop a file of who my alters were and about when they would come forwards ie triggers / jobs / purposes.
I once asked my treatment provider who mentioned my name was the same as ... I was told doing that is a memory technique he uses so that he was able to keep who was who and what their problems were straight in his long list of clients.. this ones name was "like his relative" or that one "he once met a pet owner who has a pet named that of a client and the pet owner dressed the poor animal in baby clothing".. after I found out it was just a memory technique for memorizing names he wanted to remember I didnt feel so offended.
Suggestion may be you can ask your psychiatrist why he did that and he might tell you.