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Originally Posted by Perna
Sounds like a very uncomfortable position to be in Lydia. I think if I were in your shoes, wanting to stay with the psychiatrist but not liking the rest of the team, I'd try to learn to wait until things "happened" instead of their yammering about we're going to do this, that, and the other and then changing their minds. Wait until you actually are on the road going down to Sheppard Pratt before you think, "I'm going to Sheppard Pratt"?
It sounds like you know when you feel people are saying things that are not helpful to you, I would just nod politely  and not give them the satisfaction of reacting negatively? |
I think perhaps you are right Perna, which is sort of what I have had to learn to adapt to. It's just sad that I have to do that, as the client. I really like to prepare my parts well in advance. If they say something like "you're going to sheppard prat" and someone is listening, they tend to freak out and it sets my entire system off. So them using these things against me to manipulate me is very hard on me and my system. Like for example our conversations will go like this.
It's known that I am going to Sheppard Prat. My parts are prepared. They feel okay about it.
I start a conversation with my team leader.
"We need you to go into a group home before Sheppard Prat"
"That's not my wish at this time, if I need 24/7 care to go over memories, then I'm not ready to go over them". ( I am safe, unless I'm going over memories, as I am still in the stabilization process of DID)
"Well then I guess you're not ready to go to Sheppard Prat either".
I don't answer her.
A week later I talk to another caseworker
She says
"Well the plan is, is that you'll be going into Sheppard Prat"
"Team leader said I wasn't!?"
I had already reprepared my parts for not going.