Oh, I would have loved to have seen her face! Dr.s seem to have a difficult time with patients that are well studied and conversant about their disorder. I'm sure she learned a lot from you.

Glad you got your referral!! Best of luck with your new Therapist!!

Meeting with a new Therapist myself next week.My old one is retiring.I have no idea what her opinion is of DID.Should be interesting.I really hope she knows as much as I do and hopefully more than me.If she knows less than i'll be disappointed.If she disagrees with my diagnosis,it will be the last appointment and ill need to move on.
good luck with your new T Wheezie!

OMG I thought of you Wheezie - held the thought of you in my chest - as I confronted the psych today. I was absolutely TERRIFIED!! I finally had to ask him to stop talking so fast and I had to ask him to give me a moment. I, like you, stunned him with my own knowledge of DID and it set him aback a little. Where I'd thought he was in the I-don't-beleive-in-DID camp, he assured me he isn't and that, in fact, he believes me to be DID (as the therapist who sent me to him suggested). It was nice but even now - hours later - it feels like someone has punched my stomach, my nerves were so shot. I shook like a leaf on a tree in a hurricane, completely uncontrollably and I cried, wouldn't look at him and I started stuttering (I never stutter). But I did it......

That is awesome Paige!!!!Now relax and take a hot soak or something!!! LOL Thank you Aurenna and Rainflowers.Good luck to you guys also.

so Wheezie, with you knowing more than most of the professionals, what benefit do you get from therapy?

The police require me to go through therapy to officially document my alters(our) memories.That is the only reason I am going.Otherwise I wouldn't.My alters themselves hate going but we suffer it in order to get justice for what has happened to us.

Wow.
Y'all rock.

Yes indeed, you all rock. But I submit to you, Wheezie, that perhaps "knowing" isn't the same as healing, though we dearly desire it to be so. Often we multiples go to therapy to "learn" or even to teach a therapist, but there is much more value to the relationship than that - if the therapist is a good one. Being able to share these memories and receive compassion in return is so valuable in healing. I know you have a great partner in life, as do I, but there are some things that feel "too crazy" to share with him, so the therapist plays a great role there. A good therapist also asks questions that make us think about things from a slightly different angle, and can open up new areas of understanding and emotion that had been locked to us.

This isn't a criticism in any way, just another way of looking at the therapy. I hope you will allow it to be helpful to you in whatever way it can be, and I wish the same for your daughter. It's heart-wrenching that she experienced abuse too, but I'm glad you are both getting help in healing.
Grats on a good referral!

Wistala, your post shows diplomacy. You said it better than I could. Good job! :)

Thank you for your input and sympathies Wistala.I would like to say that I am not against therapy or therapists.If they help you or anyone here on their road to recovery then more power to you and them.I myself am in no need of one.So far I have had 94 alters come out and of that 94, 51 have completely relived their memory and healed from them. As far as sharing our memories with others thats what we have DS for.This place has been a tremendous help for me and my alters as far as relating to and sharing our feelings with others.

You are awsome! :)