Even if I do not have DID I can totally relate to a crappy health care system. If people outside your country claims your care is just fine, don't get mad, don't believe them. Just ignore their ignorance.
I know when I have complained about my care here, some Americans have blatantly called me a liar. That I do have good care, cuz everyone does. Once they even got my hopes up that my health care would help me that I believed them and when I was rejected I felt hurt twice as much.
Countries like ours do not recognize some types of disorders or conditions. Like when a friend of mine started to show strong dissociation, her doctors just said it was anxiety.
Here they say everything is depression and anxiety, and if you are really sick they always say it is schizophrenia. It is like you cannot have anything else. Here they treat bipolars like depressoids and send them into mania. WHen they are manic they are diagnosed schizo! And they totally deny the existence of DID. We DO have a diagnosis for DID in our Euro manual, but in my country it is not used.
I cannot fathom how much people here and where you are, suffer because they simply deny some types of conditions exist. I should warn you UK is nearly as bad, they also rarely diagnose DID.
I know what it feels like to struggle with a therapist about what you feel and not feel. Way back they thought I had schizo and they used to verbally abuse me so I would "admit" to hearing voices. They do similar to you, they tell you what you should feel to fit into their diagnoses.
It completely sucks and I am ever so sorry!
My country finally accepted that ASD exists and I was given an ASD diagnosis instead of the other crap they thought I was.
One day they might even accept dissociation exists.
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