writingwithink: how has it been going?

I'm having a similar issue, but with my existing therapist whom I have told I want to work on my deeper issues without the parts work because it's distracting us from the trauma work and, ultimately, dealing with the things I want to get to the bottom of (gender identity and sexuality). She doesn't think I can get there without the parts work and that the trauma work is too triggering for me. So we are battling this right now.

I am ready to walk away from it all. I wondered if I could start over with another therapist and not mention DID, so that's why your post (and situation) is valuable to me right now. Other comments here have been helpful in explaining how parts work can be of benefit, but I am resistant to this. I effing hate DID and just want to deal with the effects of the past without having to spend my life with these other characters. It's been easy to cut them out, but my therapist says they communicate with her and have a different opinion on this than I do. It's maddening. So I am just wondering how you have proceeded in your new therapy and if that's working for you?