I will try not to be too obnoxious but having DID or any other dissociative diagnosis is not cute! Having child personalities is not cute! Not being in total control of your own mind is not cute! (I am a hypocrite for that last one since I have been "partying", aka abusing alcohol, my whole life.)

Having to chase down competent therapists/mental health professionals is not cute! It is a statement on the sophistication of the mental health college professors! If you go to an incompetent family medical doctor, you get to sue him! This bull of having Freudian psycho-therapists drag mental health treatment out for years with no results is not going to continue. ()

When I first started seeking treatment (I refuse to call it therapy anymore. It is treatment. The same treatment that you would expect from a medical doctor.) I was paying the PHD mental health professionals $100.00/hour when I as a Bachelor degreed Civil Engineer was only making $15.00/hour. I was paying out of pocket because I did not want anyone to know I was having mental health problems. ()

I do not know if the mental health professionals in the UK are as incompetent as the ones in the US, but here we have a serious problem. As long as patients are not allowed to sue mental health professionals for malpractice, the psychiatrists and psychologists will always be incompetent.

A Bachelor degree in nursing should be a requirement to go to graduate school to be a psychiatrist or a psychologist! Then the science of treating mental illness will start advancing leaps and bounds compared to the last 100 years. I truly believe that most of the mental health professionals in the US have a political science or business undergraduate degree. That is why they are incompetent.