So I've been playing phone tag with a potential therapist who works with DID.
She... came off to me as somewhat over stressed and somewhat snippy, though that was probably due to her not feeling well the one time we actually ended up meeting face to face so I could get the paperwork. [She had a migraine and had canceled the session, but I was already there, so she gave me the paperwork. ]
Vie... pretty much lied to her about the fact that we're sure about having DID. She was just freaking out and afraid that if we came off as sure, we'd be disbelieved and treated like some idiot attention-hungry ~Insert offensive word here~ who's playing the system because she feels like it. In fact, when vie's nervous, she makes us act REALLY twitchy and weird and suspicious and we don't like to make eye contact and we're afraid of people and... yah. She was way too far out durin that time, we could hardly control it to keep ourselves together that day.
But anyhao. In the last phone call, we suggested seeing another therapist after a month of phone tag and stupid work scheduling before finally being there when she called back on our way home from work. [No worries, we don't have a car, so it was on a bike that we used the phone.]
We were honest and confessed and basically told her that we had a lot of anxiety about it, especially because we can't PROVE it. We ended up just kinda runnin straight into a little explanation of the situation with our sister. [She supports us; we told her and she believed, then, suddenly decided we were wrong, so we just don't bring it up or make a point of it. We love her. She's done too much for us to pick a fight over something we can't prove, and it'd do more harm than good to try we figure.]
I dunno. After telling her we WERE sure and the why behind the lie and all, and getting the info for the other therapist with DID experience, she seemed nicer and more understanding.
Now I want to stick with this one, if I can, because she sounded so much nicer and less stressed this time, but I'm worried that might only be because we might be going elsewhere. Any advice? I dunno really what to do about it. And I can't make the call till I'm sure, because it's one of those things we have to have a consensus on in order for it to do us less harm than good.
~Mostly by Ayame with maybe a little input by Wraith and Vie