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Advice: Known or unknown?

Postby Aecy » Wed Jun 22, 2011 3:12 am

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.

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Re: Advice: Known or unknown?

Postby J3f » Wed Jun 22, 2011 5:00 am

First off I don't have any experience with therapy.

I would give your therapist a chance and if it doesn't work out, keep the other therapist's contact information close by.

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Re: Advice: Known or unknown?

Postby Una+ » Wed Jun 22, 2011 2:13 pm

How about having a session or two with each of them, then picking the one who seems like the better choice for you?
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Re: Advice: Known or unknown?

Postby Aecy » Sun Jun 26, 2011 11:24 am

I'm thinking of just calling up the old one at this point, as going to the new one would entail asking for assistance regarding transportation, as the other one, though the trip may take an hour and a half or so, plus time waiting for the initial bus, is still essentially "easier" for us. We seem to have to overcome considerable resistance in order to contact or, indeed, make any move in regards to therapists and the like, as though there is something of an agreement that we should, there are at least two with significant misgivings and anxieties regarding the matter.

As with everything, we cannot force it, as more harm than good shall come of that. But I think we shall attempt to see the first therapist once more, as that is currently preferable to those who are the least able to handle the situation with equanimity and poise, and, indeed, those who lack composure are the limiting force behind our movement in that direction, as we cannot healthily move forward without them allowing us to. It is likely to happen far sooner with the first, at this point, than with the second, so their mind has been made up, and with it, ours as a whole.

Thank you for your time and replies and forgive us for the lengthy wait; we've been a tad preoccupied.
I'd prefer to simply not worry about identities.
We're each me, yet not each other. We work together and share information; we're quite co-conscious.

The "three sections/three gatekeepers" theory is holding.
Don't listen too closely to Ned. He thinks too hard. [OCD]
He tends to see only what he expects to see.
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