what helps me to feel better when I get newly diagnosed with something is I ask my treatment providers for information on that diagnosis..

for example I dont know about your location but here in America its not called MPD and hast been for over a couple decades, so when my treatment providers diagnosed me they used the term...Dissociative Identity Disorder.

My treatment providers explained to me what that was....a person uses their dissociation skills. Through this my personality split into many different parts of me to hold those feelings and events that I dissociated.

they told me that even though I had just received the diagnosis I have been this way since before I was 5 years old. that meant nothing was going to happen or change now just because I got diagnosed. All getting a diagnosis does is puts a name to what is and has been since I was a very young child. I wasn't afriad of how I was before the the diagnosis so there was no need to be afraid of me after the diagnosis.

then my psychiatrist who diagnosed me pointed me to some very reliable resources...my medical doctor and my therapist. they were my first line of defense with treating my problems. He said the internet is great but its not always reliable and not always accurate. I was never going to find people exactly like me, thats impossible, but I may find a small few that had ....something...in common with me just like my friends off line and I are different but yet we have some small details that we may share.

when I talked to my medical doctor and therapist they repeated what the psychiatrist said....

nothing was going to happen to me that hasnt already been happening since before I was 5 yrs old. getting the diagnosis doesnt change anything. it just puts a name what is already there for years and years, most likely from the first traumatic event to which I used my dissociative skills to get away from because I was too young to handle such trauma.

with 3 treatment providers confirming this I felt calmer. I continued working with my treatment providers and eventually my alters integrated when they were no longer needed to do the jobs/purposes/reasons why they had been created by my brain through dissociation.

when I reached this point my therapist pointed me to a few mental health resources, one being this website, because she thought I might find others at the final steps of integration. I didnt find that here, but I did find some new friends and a way to help others because in my culture and location there is a saying...to help others is to help one self.

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