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Nov 02, 2019, 04:42 PM
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Member Since: Oct 2019
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Originally Posted by Amyjay
Lilly2, staged treatment for DID is definitely the recommended way of doing things. The guidelines from the international society for the study of trauma and dissociation, headed by the world's experts on dissociation, can be found here: Adult Treatment Guidelines - ISSTD
After nearly two and a half years of therapy I am still in stage 1.  Our therapist says we are not ready for trauma processing yet. I find that frustrating (as I just want to get this thing done!) but I suppose I know from the times that flashbacks have come up in therapy I am not ready to process them safely yet.
So in that sense I am glad our T is helping us to pace ourselves and I can trust that she will help us heal safely.
But, ugh. How long is this thing going to take? |
@Amyjay
(((safe hugs))) 
I'm so sorry you are struggling with this, too. I've bounced back and forth between stages, dissociating without and with the therapist's knowledge, and oftentimes because the T's didn't believe in DID. They'd bounce me around, and I'd give my own discourse on the years stuck in "coping skills." I have coping skills! It's the next stage I want to get to, but I can't. I can't just jump into trauma treatment to get to the grief stage, and yet I AM grieving! It's frustrating.
What makes sense is that I wasn't treated properly with the DID stuff. And that was while I was in civilian treatments. Now that I'm at the VA, I can forget about getting any treatment for DID, even though it's on their records. It's strange.
So, my boundaries going forward will be for me to supplement my own treatment and with whatever they offer me.
CPTSD is NOT what I'm going through either, and those treatments throw me into dissociation, it seems. I don't know why.
Maybe I'm stuck in phase 1, too. But it was nice to dissociate into the other phases to check them out. I'm just not there yet.
We're in this boat together. (((safe hugs)))
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