Posted by Dinah on September 2, 2004, at 12:00:30
In reply to Re: Not late!! » Dinah, posted by Aphrodite on September 2, 2004, at 11:39:12
Well, my therapist did enough work with DID, then MPD, back when it was more accepted to make him fairly well qualified at working with ego states. Actually, I think it left him gunshy from being overwhelmed. I think that's why he discouraged my talk of different parts when it first came up.
Of course, I don't have DID, and my ego arrangement, however unconventional, is very stable. I have never had any additional ego states beyond the two (or possibly three) that I always had some sort of awareness of on some level, however well hidden.
So I may have educated him, but it's about phenomenon lower on the dissociative scale than what he already had familiarity with, and if the writing on the subject has any validity, I'm not sure what he's learned will apply to anyone but me. :( I just don't "fit" anywhere.
Even to not having a history of abuse.
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