OT - mental health diagnoses - really long and rambling
If I understand my therapist correctly, they are just getting rid of it altogether now.
Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
Do you think most mental health professionals are in favor of removing it? Or have your coworkers said anything about it?
Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
Lora
14 years out; 190 pounds lost, 165 pound loss maintained
You don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.
Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
Everone has covered the main points for me. I just wanted to thank you for being brave enough to share that with us. You are so well respected on this forum, maybe you have done something to break the stigma associated with mental illness. I think our physical journey is tied together with our spiritual, emotional and mental health and we need to think of that as one package.
When I was diagnosed bipolar, I didn't want that as a lable. Now I see how that benefits me and I am amazed that DID is being removed from the DSM.
Thank you.
Elle BW
Be kinder than necessary, because everyone you meet is fighting some sort of battle.
Paulo Coelho 
Well, that and getting insurance companies to pay for treatment.
I appreciate your reply. Once again, I am discovering how empowering it is just to talk about things. and wondering why I was worried about posting anything about it, because everyone is being so accepting and so nice.
Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
I already felt "crazy" with all the other PTSD symptoms, and feeling like my brain was "betraying" me by presenting me with a memory that could nto possibly be "real" made that SO much worse. Her unspoken disbelief of that level of depersonalization -- and my perception that she was "checking out" on me during the couple of times I tried to talk about it was extremely hurtful. I imagine that the experience of having people doubt the validity of DID is probably even more distressing...
Lora
14 years out; 190 pounds lost, 165 pound loss maintained
You don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.
One thing I know about therapy is that you are supposed to start where the client is. Whether the memory you said you had was "real" or not, that was the place to start since that's what you brought up. Whether you HAD to deal with it that way or just chose to, that was the place to start. And please understand, I'm not at all suggesting it wasn't real or that you chose to remember it that way. I'm just saying that your therapist should have started wherever you were, with whatever you brought to the table.
And I wanted to say I'm sorry for what you went though.
Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
