Helping my DID wife

Hi MJ,

Recently we talked about Books in a thread:

Books about people with DID

Maybe you find something that interests you.

Una+ wrote:With one of my therapists I made a written treatment plan, tailored to my issues. Its objectives include full fusion of all alters, no more losing time, no more dissociative amnesia and hysterical blindness, resolution of one conflictual relationship and the internal conflict I experience about that person, and choosing and developing a new career that satisfies the new me. I am not who I was before fusions began. I have been in therapy for 3 years and made a lot of progress toward these objectives.

Una, thanks for sharing this. This is awesome, not only from the DID point of view, but from the self point of view.

Sea

T.A. Anderson wrote:Una+ Have you seen anything or have any thoughts of your own on how I was able to develope a dissociatve amnesia with little, or no, aspects of DID.

Certainly. Dissociative amnesia is both a symptom found in DID and some other disorders, and a disorder in its own right. Also, many people experience isolated episodes of dissociative amnesia; this is a common, natural, normal, and arguably healthy trauma response.

So far my research has led me to the Timberlawn Trauma Program run be Dr Collin Ross. This doctor has apparently spent most of his life helping DID sufferers to successfully recover. His program was recommended to me by the husband of a lady who received in-patient treatment at Dr Ross's clinic in Austin Texas, and she has recovered.
Does anyone know anything about this program or Dr Ross?

Thank you,
MJ

As far as inpatient programs go, there are a number of hospital programs around the United States that specialize in treating trauma and dissociation, especially DID.

Colin Ross directs several of these inpatient programs. He is one of the leading psychotherapists and authors of publications on DID. Richard Kluft, mentioned before in this thread, is another. There are many others as well.

Inpatient programs for DID are short term and designed for intensive work in conjunction with ongoing psychotherapy. No one fully recovers from DID in just a few weeks in a hospital. So, I suggest that you make your top priority finding a local therapist to work with, one who is willing and able to spent a lot of time consulting with any inpatient program, if that is the route your wife's treatment takes.