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Old Dec 28, 2015, 04:08 PM
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Originally Posted by CassyO View Post
I'm wondering if anyone on here has worked with DID patients, or if anyone has a T who's been really honest? I'm curious to know what its like from the T's perspective, when clients switch in front of them. I feel like such a freak, and I imagine him in his head thinking 'WTF' a lot! Obviously he is professional and doesn't react on the outside, but I really want to know what he thinks when it happens.
the only way to know for sure what your own treatment provider thinks is to ask him. here on psych central asking this you will get a whole lot of mixed answers from the positive to the negative and still only your treatment provider can tell you what he is thinking...

let me show you what I mean...

i have had treatment providers say wow thats cool, i have never worked with DID before, and I have had treatment providers refer me to other treatment providers because they felt unqualified, or uncomfortable, or just were at a loss on what to do.

my present treatment provider tells me now after I have been integrated, that working with me had its challenges because DID by nature is an unpredictable mental disorder. from any given day, moment she never knew which alter was going to be there and what would trigger the dissociation for some of my alters, it is therapy, triggers happen and alters taking control unpredictable happens. Just the nature of the disorder and her job.

All she could do was take it in stride and deal with things moment to moment. thats life, even with out the added element of having DID like changes from moment to moment , day to day so mostly is was like any other day in her life. Like anything else in her life there are the positives and the negatives. thats life.