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Default Sep 11, 2022 at 01:06 PM
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I came across this fabulous manual for every therapist supporting those with DID or DDNOS:

Title: Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation

(Skills Training for Patients and Therapists)

Authors: Suzette Boon, Kathy Steele, Onno van der Hart

Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company

Year: 2011

(Note: There may be a more recent edition.)
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Default Sep 11, 2022 at 03:32 PM
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I came across this fabulous manual for every therapist supporting those with DID or DDNOS:

Title: Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation

(Skills Training for Patients and Therapists)

Authors: Suzette Boon, Kathy Steele, Onno van der Hart
maybe you can ask your treatment provider why they are not doing things by books anymore. mine is not doing things by books and more individualized because of the new DSM 5 tr says treatment has to focus on other accompanying symptoms not the typically found in books, movies, tv and social media symptoms, problems and ways.

for example when I tell my treatment provider I had a dissociation problem this week she does not and can not focus on the dissociation. she has to talk with me about what the trigger was, and how to handle the trigger specific to me and my problems rather than what the coping with trauma and dissociation books tell her to.

in other words maybe there is a reason why your treatment provider is not using that or other dissociation specific books since march.

you can on the other hand tell your treatment provider that you, on your own are using a specific book and what in the book you found relates directly to your situation, how you are using the book to work on your other accompanying symptoms that come with your dissociation problems. this will open the door for your treatment provider to read the book and have a limited discussion with you about the book as it pertains directly to you.

Ive done that a time or two with my treatment provider since March when the new ways were put in place for my treatment provider and how she must work with her dissociative clients now.

treatment providers cant work from books now in my location. So that book wouldnt do her / him any good. here they work more individualized now, based on what each clients own problems are, not on a book that tells them if you have a dissociative client do this and that.

I also tend to lean towards treatment providers who branch out and dont let books become their "bibles" so to speak on how to work with dissociatives. you might say I like the individual client involved with developing and working on the treatment plans alongside the therapist instead of the therapist going textbook style on me.

Im not a textbook Im a human being, what I need and want in therapy is not always found in a book that tells my treatment provider to do this or that with my dissociation symptoms and problems.

theres more to being dissociative disordered then what you can find in media (books, movies, online) my problems from dissociative disorders cant be found in a book, they are found in my body and mind. therefore I have to be the one leading and telling my treatment providers about me and what I need. not some book. Im glad that I have a treatment provider who understands this and have always had treatment providers who have understood that theres more to being DID in the past and now just slightly dissociative.

its kind of cool that the new ways since march now are in line with how I have always done my therapy with my therapists over the years. individualized and specific to my own problems and symptoms rather than a book telling my treatment providers as a dissociative I should be feeling or having this that and the other thing / symptom / problem and do this that and the other thing.

Ive actually been able to do so much more with my therapy sessions over the years and heal much faster treatment wise then most I know with dissociative problems, because my treatment providers were not into dissociation specific books. They didnt follow a specific type of treatment or limit their self with their clients into being whats in books.

they saw me as more than my disorders. to them and myself I was / am a human being who just happens to have all kinds of problems that sometimes affects my life. they treat me as a human being instead of a textbook case. and I like that.

talk with your treatment providers. they can tell you if they have that book, have heard of it and whether or not they can use it on an individual basis related to your specific problems / symptoms.
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Default Sep 13, 2022 at 05:23 AM
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I'm glad to hear you've had skilled treatment providers, amandalouise.

Thank you so much for your input; it is much appreciated.
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Thanks so much for sharing that with us!
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Thank you for saying, Scotch!
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Thanks so much for sharing this, TheGal!

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