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shrinkrapper wrote:I can see that you're feeling frustrated and angry. I can understand how you find some of what I said as being trite. There such is alot of loss with DID/PTSD and whatever. I've lost my teens, 20,30,40 and hopefully, not my 50's. Lots of time I've felt like "psychiatric roadkill"and is the "cure" going to happen in my lifetime.

Yes, I understand, but let me try and explain something. DID is not the only thing I am trying to deal with, it is only 1 issue out of many. The problem being, that one of my other problems is considered mutually exclusive with DID by the medical community.

Imagine a board with a square hole, and a round hole next to it. Then you have a rigid stick with the square peg at one end, and the round peg at the other. My road takes me through what the medical community consider impossible..... putting both square and round pegs in their respective holes simultaneously. They refuse to treat both. The DID has to be treated and I must be fully integrated, before I can continue to get treatment for the other condition. This is ridiculous as things are not binary, they are in reality so intertwined that they are no longer seperate issues. Can't treat one without the others. and the end result is that I lose far more than I would just dealing with a single issue.

I wish things were as simple as just being multiple, or just having the other issues to deal with, seperately, one at a time, but they're not. Things are far far more complex for us than I can tell. And its the reason why there is no help available.

Like we were told. "we're too complex"

Lahl

Hi Lahl,

Can't disagree with what you're saying. They can't treat just DID even if they think they can or are?

It's absolutely ludicrous to think that you can treat anything in isolation.

What would I do in your situation? I'd play the game with them to get my foot in the door. Once you're in it's easier to move around more. Yeah, blah, blah, blah, square holes, round pegs, whatever. Most of them don't know whether they're coming or going. But there may be someone who can help you even if they don't agree with your perception of the situation. Once your working with them, there may be more flexible there.

I'm trying to do the best I can here without knowing alot. Have you ever thought that maybe you're being sort of rigid too? Are you insisting on being the Lorax who speaks for the trees? (Dr.Suess book). Take Care, Shrinkrapper

This is a tough situation. I live in a large city where there are probably more resources available and it's a job to find decent help. I had a T tell me that her solution to my DID was that I should join a drama club. She didn't think too much of me when I told her that I wasn't interested in coming to see her for a session that amounted to having a cup of tea. I can look back on this now without alot of anger/frustration b/c I finally have a good T, but like I've told you, it took me a long time. But in fairness the T who suggested drama, taught me a few helpful things, so it wasn't a complete waste.