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Originally Posted by Michael W. Harris
If any patient is capable of making a system map, it discredits the diagnosis. It may be that the therapist is trying to prove that the patient is dissembling! It means that the patient is in control of which alters present themselves. True dissociative patients are not in control and have no idea of the dissociated personalities, in most cases. Only when a trained mental health professional helps break down some of the amnesic barriers do patients start to know the alters. Obviously there are exceptions to this but this is true for most dissociative patients. At least from what I have read in Dr. Ross's book.
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What you're saying is making my brain hurt. I do believe I am having a bout of misunderstanding going down. Are you saying that if a person's t suggests they make a system map then the t thinks the person is lying? I'm also not understanding how if a person knows about some others in their system then their dx is discredited. I also don't understand how having some degree of co con means a person can control who is out.
I understand that you said 'most', but it gets me concerned when I hear about doctors trying to apply some narrow standard across a broad range of people. I understand things such as the need for uniform standards in diagnostic criteria or the mental health system would be a hotter mess with one doc using his ideas and another using hers. Messy. But to hear about someone trying to say that if someone can make a system map about some people they have awareness of discredits them... that completely invalidates a huge population of people who have some co con going on in their system. I find that to be dangerous and concerning if mental health people truly do believe what you wrote to be truth. I truly do hope I am seriously misunderstanding this, because if I am not, my nonexistent faith in the mental health field has plummeted even farther below zero faith. Did not know that I could think less of them.
-Tay
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no hugs or prayers pls n thx
(dx list: DID/PTSD, ASD, GAD, OCD, LMNOP)