Yes you may print off what I posted to you and show your treatment providers.

there is also some links online that you and your treatment provider can access together (they need treatment providers info and passwords and may cost a bit of money but like my own treatment provider and I and my job there are ways to deflect the cost if needed) I wont provide the links because well this site has a rule that says we are not supposed to be sending other members to other forums and such for the purpose of solicitation and stuff like that. but in order to do this kind of therapy work a treatment provider in the USA has to have gone through special training and special certifications. and as part of that they have access to professional stuff that they can share with their clients... like forums, websites,

yes amyjay and I do have differing views on many things partly because we are in different locations and different treatment providers with different views on things like this.

in my post I did not say it cant be done with dissociatives. my last paragraph says its hard to tell the two different types of personalities apart when trying to do IFS with dissociative disorders.

here is an example of what I meant using my DID and why this therapy approach would not work for me....

I was already separated from my alternate personalities. with DID a very young child uses dissociation during trauma to mentally separate their self from trauma and pain and situations that they can not handle, physically what happens when children do this is everything that they have dissociated gets stored in their unconsciousness.

IFS work requires a person to in IFS language "debond" "separate" "differentiate" what that is, is a therapist leads a person through separating emotionally from "a part" of them that is having a problem.

because I was already debonded, already separated, differenciated from my alters IFS would not have helped me.

my treatment plans due to the severity of my separation, debonding, differenciating from my alters was the opposite. it was grounding, and trying to integrate/ bring together me and my alters.

like I said in my post alters with DID are different than the "parts" that IFS is dealing with. if I had tried IFS on my DID parts it could have caused me and my DID more problems. I would not have integrated. I would have debonded even more.

my point is there was so much involved with why my treatment provider and I decided against IFS for me.

Im not saying IFS cant be worked on with dissociative problems. I was saying in my post its hard to work on the two kinds of systems at the same time.

the actual classes / trainings, workshops on this that professional go to be certified in this therapy approach teaches that this is to address non pathological multiple systems (in other words this is not a DID therapy)

whether treatment providers outside of their classes/ trainings / workshops decide to try it with non pathological multiple systems as well as DID systems ...well like DBT and other therapies what treatment providers do with their clients is up to them. what works for one may not work for another.