things you wish your practitioners knew about DD/DID

I think I know what your mean. I would love it if I new someone cared for me enough to put me first. To take the time to comfort me when I am afraid. And there are parts of me who think our t should be the one to do that. But the older parts understand that that is not the relationship we have with our t. And that the desire to be loved and protected may come from not having had it when we were little. It's tuff.

Yup. exactly. The littles want the attention, others (in me) want the security, while one just wants to rely on herself, only.

I wish any new practitioners wouldn't flinch and back away, or when we say"DID" ask what is that? I wish when a little draws a picture for the NP, she wouldnt deny that the little one made it or get freaked out by it. I wish my therapist didn't ALWAYS blame every symptom on DID, and take other possibilities into account.
(Especially when I feel I'm falling into a pit of psychotic depression)

I wish T would either ***** or get off the pot about whether I need the hospital or not.

In this day and age I think they kinda leave it up to us for the most part... unless you suddenly throw yourself to the ground and refuse to respond...
that usually gets one admitted. Going in voluntarily is better.

Hope you can make the decision you need and take care of you!

I wish that my providers would stop asking me about the hallucinations. When I dissociate I have a hallucinogenic barrier between myself/my selves and reality.

Am I supposed to memorize the elements of my visual and audible hallucinations? "Are the voices in your head or outside?" Do I really care enough to explain something they'll NEVER understand?

As long as I can slip away when the stress is too great I don't care who I am or what my reality has become.

Do they need to know who is gone? Or am I really gone and who is still present if anyone at all?

I say prosecute the pervert that caused me this trauma.

Lauren Ann

Will my T ever say, "well, that's about all I can do for you..." Bec I just quit on her bec it feels like she's not helping anybody inside. I'm done.

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The real question they are trying to figure out there is Are you schizaphrenic or not. I can't spell that right. Typically, outside voices and people viewed outside the body get patients labelled with Schitz. or psychosis. Whereas DID usually has the people and voices decidedly inside the mind. We know that they are not others (like say, I can't hand a book to my alter 22 because she's in HERE sharing the body with me). With Schitzophrenia, that is different; they see the people OUT THERE as real and think they could interact with them in the outside world. Make sense? So I am betting that is why they make a big deal of it. Thanks for the post!

:/ that's just about where I'm at, too. tho my current t wouldn't say that (but others have). I just also think she's not helping anyone inside, and in fact some sit there and say silently "i hate you" to her face all thru session. really benificial, I'm sure. I should just quit, but I don't think she'll even let me quit! "You don't just quit therapy, Kiya. You quit when it's all been said and doesn't haunt you any more". Great.
in fact, one of our littles is feeling guilty because she knows I went back to this t for a specific self-harm thing that this little one was doing. And she knows we all hate it there and that we wouldn't be there if not for her. I try to tell her it's not her fault.... but no good is coming of us being there.... bah!
Anyway, thanks for the post!