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Originally Posted by amandalouise
I see. for the sexual one my treatment providers put me on a long term birth control and monthly testing for sexually transmitted diseases, for the self injury one we went inpatient.. usually when a person/alter needs to self injure it means they are triggered in some way and not thinking clearly. the self injury is a way to release those emotions but can also cause accidental death by accidental suicide (thats what its called here in NY when someone accidentally dies due to self injury) Which here where I live and work requires treatment providers to do an involuntary commitment to a mental unit. for the voices my therapist and I had me journaling so that we could figure out what the alters needed and take care of them. as we took care of what they needed the voices calmed down. Some of my alters were what we call introjects...a type of alter that takes on the abuser role. Usually when my introject was activated it meant I was doing something that I was programmed not to do. example trying to talk about what happened was not allowed so the introject would start verbally down grading./ verbally abusing me. the way my treatment provider and I dealt with this was for every negative comment the introject threw my way I wrote down a positive statement...intorject - you are so stupid...me writing down - I am not stupid I just dont know how to do that the way others do. introject - what an A.. me yup I have one of those every living thing has a way to eliminate bodily waste and today its working perfectly. as you can see I also use humor to combat those negative remarks my introject would throw my way  my therapist once said the best way to fight the negative was to turn it around into a positive and not do battle with the negative. |
Thank you for replying. I do journal and write to the alters. She hasn't self harmed in a month or so. I can't get pregnant as I'm in menopause (only 22, but have a disorder that made me go into menopause and I don't ovulate). My therapist wants to avoid hospitalisation as much as possible. I am in close contact with her as I talk/text to her everyday. I'm her third DID patient that she has worked with on a close basis. She's been in this business for thirty some years. She's retiring in four years though. I live in a small community so it will be hard to find another one that will help me as much as she has. I'm nervous.
I'm on medication. I'm on disability because of this. I've been out of hospital since September 18, 2012. I was in for five and a half months. This is the longest since 2011 I've been out of hospital.
Jul 11, 2013, 07:12 PM
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