Multiple Personalities Support Group

Dissociative identity disorder is a diagnosis described as the existence in an individual of two or more distinct identities or personalities, each with its own pattern of perceiving and interacting with the environment. At least two of these personalities are considered to routinely take control of the individual's behavior, and there is also some associated memory loss,...

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loum50
loum50
I am so lucky to have found my current therapist. She understands me more than I understand myself. She makes her office a very safe place and she can tell when I've switched. It's wonderful to have a therapist that believes me and understands me and can help me.
k2hsharpe
k2hsharpe
this is so.important
-huge smiles -
tyzz27
tyzz27
Im so happy that you have found a good therapist to work with all of you. I too have found a good therapist who I have been working with over the last several months who has helped me reaquaint myself with the realization that even the personalities who frustrate me the most have positive qualities as well. Thanks for sharing as its always good to hear good news on this board.
starfish
starfish
I need one of those!! I recently "fired" my last therapist because he kept prodding me, and asking what's going on inside, etc. when I had told him several times, not to do that. When we first started in May of 2009, I thought he was the best I'd ever worked with. He has done a lot to help me this far, but he didn't listen very well to my needs. It was funny, becouse a couple of times we talked about how and if I was making progress, and he said it was working for me to listen during sessions, and then letting me work it out inside by myself. With a lot of therapy in the past, that worked for me, and he agreed. However, he continued to try to get me to "come out" with my alters, and especially when he asked who the controller alter was, it really made me mad. i felt like he was trying to access control over my inside world. And thankfully, I have enough experience that is not a good thing to do. At least, for me. I really liked what I read in another post, about becoming your therapist's therapist. That seems to be what happens to me over time, and whomever I am working with at the time, does not see it that way, of course. So sooner or later, I wind up moving on. I don't know what to do now, as I am on state health plan, and my choices of therapists is limited to their plan. When I found the last one I had, it was after searching through profiles online, and he was the only one who sounded like he would be helpful. Most of the other profiles mentioned family, relationship, teen, addiction, etc. which I already know, tends to go nowhere. So now I am on therapy vacation and enjoying it. I'm not sure what I will do therapy-wise in the future, but for now, I am resting from it. I am hearing a lot more commotion gonig on inside right now, so I am hoping that will settle down eventually.
JammieGirl
JammieGirl
That's great to hear!

Hey maybe we should put together our own 'best practice guidelines' for therapists. Between us all I reckon we have enough experience!