What is this?

There are a few things you can try and the answers you get may clarify things. Ask if there is anyone who knows more about what's going on than everybody else and ask if they'll have a conversation with you. Asks them if you are sharing the same body.

If you do have DID and another alter takes control of the body and you are aware that this is happening more or less, this would happen if you are co-conscious with another part of you.

It's quite preposterous for a therapist to doubt their client's communicated experience is real so I'm wondering if they actually said "I don't believe you" as in "I don't believe that you're telling me the truth." Or did they say or mean "I don't believe that's what you're experiencing." Either way, you'd need to find a therapist who doesn't give you that impression.

Are your reading several threads on this board? It's a good way to see if the experience of others here matches yours? For many people with DID, starting to read threads here is incredibly reassuring. Hearing others express experiences we have is quite validating.

What do you mean by T not believing? Do you mean you tell them what you hear inside your mind and they say no, you don't hear that. Or is it that they think it's not real parts, it's just imagination or something else?

I agree with getting a better T. The kind who listens, it's their job in the end. You can't have wrong kind of symptoms or wrong kind of experiences. They are yours, not your T's. If they don't know what to do with you, they can't just decide you are not allowed to have what you have. If you are brave, tell this to your T also. If you can't say it out loud, write it on the paper. Tell how you feel. That you are not heard or believed or what ever it is that you're feeling.

Therapy without trust is useless therapy. That's why you need to bring it up and see what happens. When you see what happens, you can decide if it's time for you to go, or if your T is willing to listen more carefully.

donna1995 wrote:I would like to thank you for your sharing your opinion. My psychotherapist does not believe me. The psychiatrist I see has not fully understood the situation.

That's not good - if you can go to a new one id recommend so, a good psychologist shouldn't do that

J

TheGangsAllHere wrote:

donna1995 wrote:My psychotherapist does not believe me.

My opinion: That should never happen. Ever. Time for a new therapist.

Wow. I can't even imagine going to someone for help, exposing something so deeply personal and frankly terrifying (both to live with and hide AND to tell people about) and have THAT kind of reaction... from a trained professional that should know better.