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March 21, 2010 at 6:34 pm · Filed under Mental Health, My Stories, Personal Musings, Uncategorized, Understanding DID and tagged: diagnosis, DID, healing, Personal Musings, recovery, self-worth, therapy, Understanding DID
For reasons not relevant to this blog, I joined an online Alanon group. Alanon is for friends and family of those dealing with alcohol issues. I learned that Alanon is not about the individual with the alcohol problem, but it’s about *you.* How you deal with your life, your reactions, your healing. Learning how you’ve changed (often for the negative) from your attempts to “deal with” or “change” the other person.
I’ve learned many things I can apply to my life – things that have *nothing* to do with alcohol. I had no idea it was such a widely-applicable program.
Joy wrote a comment on the Baby Talkers post that got me thinking about something I learned in Alanon. She wrote:
I have been struggling with this for awhile now, especially regarding you tube. They sound sincere, but who is going to actively flaunt this, especially their littles on public video forums? Maybe I’m wrong, but then again, half the time I doubt my own diagnosis.
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December 6, 2008 at 11:34 pm · Filed under Mental Health, My Stories, Personal Musings, Therapy and Treatment and tagged: crappy economy, healing, job search, Psychology, self-worth, therapy, Therapy and Treatment
Hello everyone – I wanted to say I have been caught up in job stuff. I am looking for a job, I think I mentioned, and have been at it nearly constantly. I know I need to take breaks, but I have been excited about some of the progress and don’t want to lose steam. Since our economy sucks here in the United States, it is especially hard. But I have a few phone interviews coming up, and everyone says that is great.
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November 17, 2008 at 4:18 pm · Filed under Mental Health, multiple personality disorder, My Stories, Personal Musings, Therapy and Treatment, Understanding DID and tagged: alters, DID, dissociation, dissociative identity disorder, MPD, multiple personality disorder, Psychology, self-worth, switching, Therapy and Treatment, triggers
Recently, I scheduled consultation interviews with two therapists, hoping one would be the “one.” Good news – I found her! Bad news, the other therapist has not a clue. You already know how that session started and ended – with the surreal therapy room and therapy menagerie. I promised to follow up about the consultation itself. This post is much less fun. It will piss you off.
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November 8, 2008 at 1:25 pm · Filed under Goddess of Brilliance and Wonder, My Stories, Personal Musings, Understanding DID and tagged: coping mechanisms, DID, dissociative identity disorder, humor, MPD, multiple personality disorder, self-worth, switching, Understanding DID
I am between jobs, which is a polite way of saying that my last company screwed me over by proposing an unexpectedly ridiculous contract that I was being pressured to accept within three days. <I’ll bend over on my own terms when it suits my ulterior motives. These were no longer My Terms. Thus, I was instantly somewhat less motivated to maintain the position.>
June 3, 2008 at 3:25 pm · Filed under Therapy and Treatment and tagged: anger, DID, recovery, self-worth, therapy, triggers
In the last post, Changing therapists – what to consider, I presented a list of questions for my therapist and I to explore, in my quest to decide if I should change therapists. This is a summary of the discussion. While it is targeted to me, if you have some of the same questions I had, you might gain some insight from these answers.
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April 18, 2008 at 5:08 pm · Filed under Personal Musings and tagged: DID, dissociation, dissociative identity disorder, dreams, healing, multiple personality disorder, revelations, self-worth, Understanding DID
Comforting to me is this idea that DID is a natural response to unnatural events. A creative defense response. Not a bizarre aberration in my head suggesting some underlying psychosis.
I’ve read that one goal of therapy is reintegration of the individual selves who have been split off.
There are debates about whether integration is truly necessary or desirable (or even controllable). I’lI withhold my opinion because I am simply not far enough along in the process to make an intelligent decision.
Or, perhaps, I cannot yet reach a quorum. <smile>
But I just learned something. With growing awareness of the splits inside me comes the possibility that separation of selves can help in the healing process. Interactions among selves facilitate knowledge and recovery.
Let me tell you about a dream I had last night.
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Emily First Girl: ...........Camigwen ............Multiplicity 