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Originally Posted by Rainydaiz
Have you had a look at the book The Stranger in the Mirror? It's written by the women who devised the SCID-D test. It gives great explanations and life stories of the dissociative scale. I probably have DD-NOS or whatever the new name is. Anyway it's a great book. Also The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk. That's more technical but still very good.
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I will check them both out; thank you for the recommendations.
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Originally Posted by Rainydaiz
Sounds like you need to find someone who is trained in trauma. My t says there aren't many here in UK who will diagnose it and it's a fairly controversial area (as you realise reading Van Der Kolks book). I have managed to find a support group near me. Hope you can get some validation soon. Believe yourself. Only you know you.
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I do believe; I know. And I know it's controversial. I've been visiting DID support groups since DID was still MPD - so well over twenty years. I think we started on internet chat relay which had the first online support groups.
I'm just a little disappointed because fifty years of keeping a secret only to be dismissed within minutes. I suppose I'm partly to blame. Keep a secret for fifty years, you figure it is valuable, you know? You're right though - validation comes from inside. I don't need outside validation, I just trusted him...and I don't give trust lightly so I think a big part of this is just beating myself up for sharing my secret with someone unworthy.