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Location: California, USA
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#21
Wow! =] I wish I can tell my doctor about my circumstance... I don't have very obvious alters since they rarely come out, but I can't tell anyone about my circumstances...I can't tell my family either, so I can't tell my doctor. =( I really want to improve though, and I have the feeling I can't do it alone... My family will probably mock me again if I tell them. After they found out I was cutting myself, they laughed at me saying that I thought everything was "painful" and so forth. I can only imagine how they will laugh at me if I tell them about my DID....lol
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#22
Thanks
thought never crossed my mind usually just say and do nothing. Freeze til its all over and then try escape. Thank you for highlighting an alternative __________________ "never tell a child their dreams are unlikely or outlandish.... few things are more humiliating and what a tragedy when they believe you"
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thank you for posting this, i was wondering if i was the only one going through this, i think reading this has helped me and also will help me at doctor next time, im a newbie here but i think i have found the right place. |
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#25
i've been in the same medical care group for about 10 or more years - part of the d.i.d. is that i can't remember the past 10 years clearly.
for many years i had severe migraines, fibromyalgia, severe depression and a whole bunch of petty junk that was always going on. i was also a pain-pill addict also. i have always had a tendency to tell the truth and take the consequences because, i have no logical idea why i do that. it is sort of stupid sometimes. i have been treated like the village idiot, a drug seeker, middle-aged weakling and like a person who is suffering and rarely like someone thought i was brave to keep going. my current family med. doc. knows the basics, treats me decently and doesn't ever act like i am an idiot. he's one of my heroes. i do not have many of those. i'll be honest, my mom died of breast cancer 16 years ago and i still can't make myself do a gyn checkup. i even know how stupid that behavior is but i just can't do it. maybe this year. thank you for sharing "myself" if you are still reading here! leslie and her pixies __________________ HEALING HAPPENS |
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Thanks for all the above. Very helpful!
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Hang in there - nervousness and anxiety and panic - all of that does pass, and it feels better sooner than later.
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This gives me some hope. It's still very scary too. |
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#29
Hi, I just got registered and read what was written, but don't know how to type in on an answer i guess this is it I'm Karen and I'm in Dallas...my primary doc knows I'm DID, but so far , no problems.
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Thank you I have had to live down the stigma of DID. but in the end I found it was just easier to be myself. it took me two years, a 1/2 dozen public blow ups but people are finely getting the picture that I remember things. My t asked me why I did it. the only thing that I could say is I'm just like the other path builders. I remember the black woman taking the front set. the gay/lesbin fighting for a job and all those others that endured the pain of being on the front line. In the end I would not have made it had not been the veterns that believed in me. I am not telling everyone to speak out there are times that I wish I was still in the closet. but now people knew and I hope that more people will understand us. This page is also helping us to keep the faith. thank you all for being so honest and helpful.
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thanx anderson! beada glad yuo posted this cuz we too has 'come uot' abuot her DID. most peoples what no us very well also no that we is DID. some of them dont really seem to get it, others is always tryign ta get a certian one of us to come uot because they thikns they is beign helpful liek when one of her littles is uot pppls. what nos us can usualy tell.........them we not like so much...........but others are very supportive adn we need supposrt from anywheir it comes from rite now. we is glad we has teelled others becaue now we does not have ta do a bunch of explaineign when someone comes uot adn does are says somethign adn some others of us dotn no nothing abuot it so in the dark. beads HATES hzveing ta explain abuot her littles also so now we dotn have to anymoer.
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#32
I ended up telling my primary care provider about my little Hannah over the summer.... I didn't know how she'd react to it but Hannah wanted my doctor to know about her. Even though my doctor doesn't know much about DID/MPD, she accepted Hannah really easily.... A bit more easily than my counselor had (it wasn't until the first part of my psychological evaluation this past Monday that she willingly accepted Hannah and was willing to work with her--- of course the psychologist is my counselors supervisor and said she wanted my counselor to work with Hannah!).
My doctor is the same way when it comes to my "female exams"--- she's willing to wait until I'm ready and told me that if it becomes too much I can tell her and she'll stop the exam...she's even willing to do it in two appointments if necessary and let me go every 2-3 years in between instead of the traditional yearly exam. |
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#33
Thanks for this...I have always wondered what happened to me during internals
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I only tell my primary care doc that I have PTSD and depression . When I had my surgery last year, I was under the care of a wonderful psychiatrist who had ties to Mass General. She called the people she knew , explained the situation and I had the best care ever. I had a psych resident assigned to me before and after the surgery which was good because I panicked badly. They gave me a private suite so I could feel safe. I couldn't have asked for more.
On the other hand, I tried to tell my brother and sister in law about DID. The first reaction was Never , ever being allowed to babysit my neices again. The second reaction, or question, from my SIL was "So are you like Dr Jeckel & Mr Hyde?" |
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My primary care doctor was the one who suggested that I go for a reassessment so he knows what I’m dealing with and he is very helpful. He understands that I only need an anti-depressant when I’m struggling a bit and having difficulty sleeping. Tiredness and stress are huge factors in how well I cope with the DID. I just wish my dentist knew. I tried to tell her once but it wouldn’t come out. I find I get very, very anxious and have cancelled appointments in the past. I keep planning to tell her but I don’t know her as well as I know my doctor. It’s been too difficult.
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#36
Korin,
Here too. *sigh* ...working on it though. |
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Location: Chicago burbs
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I have a great gyn... She adjusts the speculum to fit me so it doesn't hurt and I don't have to go away. I have to do the exam as the body may have cancer as a result of the sexual abuse. I have my D&C. June 19 and then we will know for sure. Needless to say we are in mix up time. I only told her about the sexual abuse not the DID. I cannot do colonoscopy at all as the destructive ones come out. There is too much risk.
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#38
This is so helpful. :3 My gyn knows about my childhood abuse (although not who did it, I was too scared to tell her it was my dad ), and about my abusive ex, and knows I have PTSD, but I've never managed to tell her about even the fact I dissociate, never mind that I'm multiple. :/ We haven't switched during an exam so far, but I do dissociate and get very spacey and far away 'cause it's so scary.
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#39
are you guys hot. what the intensity of your discussion. i am interested. so whats up. i don't tell my doctor anything but what i need them to hear. i don't trust most doc's okay. but my doctor is cool she knows me better than i do. for real she can tell when i'm trippin i dont even have2 tell her. look can you trust your doctor? okay jus figure that out an you'l be staight. or jus marinate on that u kno for a minute and it'll probably jus be there u kno. its all good.
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