Help needed. We are in big trouble (may trigger)

Damn

We have been in therapy for almost 2 years now and i thought we were really making progress. We had started opening up to our therapist who is really supportive (and patient) and started a few months ago to share some bad memories of bad things. The others were talking to her and she was telling me and although it hurt me to the core and sort of knew and it helped me to help them feel better because i understood why they cried and screamed and cut me and tried to kill the body etc.

I don't know what happened last week because he won't tell me but he (the angry one) took a huge overdose (of what i still don't know) and cut my stomach open so deeply that they had to glue it back together at the hospital. I can feel now when he overdoses, i recognise the signs and so i called the ambulance shortly before falling into unconsciousness.

At the hospital they apparently pumped our stomach out and kept us sedated as the body was having seizures and our heart stopped. After 3 or 4 days as we started to feel better the angry one took over again and apparently was abusive to the nurses and tried to run away when they said we would have to see a psychiatrist before leaving the hospital. He tried to run away but we still weren't strong enough and had another seizure.

Everything went blurry and i know he fought again when we started coming round. I was co-present and tried to speak with him. They stuck a needle in our bottom and everything went blurry.

Everything was blurry and distant for some days and we awoke a few days ago to find ourselves in the psych hospital. Everytime we were feeling a little better they stuck another needle into us to "help us stay calm". Today is the first full day that they have left us alone. We feel a bit better and have been allowed access to the day room where there is this computer. They keep coming to check us though so i'm scared they'll come in and read this.

They said that we have to stay here involintarily for up to 28 days. Tomorrow we have to meet the medical team for a proper assessment. We are scared. We already speak to a good psychologist through skype every week as we used to live in another country and she is still there. She sees us for free and she's amazing.

She said we are not crazy and is helping us to communicate more. We've had some REALLY bad experiences in the past with other doctors and spent a long time in a psych hospital before under such heavy sedation that we had no idea what was going on. They could have done anything to us again. They said we were schizophrenic and made us take haldol??? for ages but it messed with us so much then i turned into a zombie and couldn't work or function proper.y. It didn't change anything inside.

So .. what should i do tomorrow. Speak the truth with the doctor? Maybe he will understand and let me out. Say nothing? We are all scared he will keep us here for the full 28 days. We are scared he will mis diagnose us and waste time for everyone. We are scared he won't believe that the others exist and put some other label on us. Yet they have heard us talking together and have seen the angry one. If we say that nothing is going on then maybe they will not believe that either.

Please any advice will be greatly received. We have already been in here many days and it is making us worse not better

I would tell the doctor you have DID and direct him to your psychologist. He can label you regardless of what you say or do not say, so you have nothing to lose.

Please tell them you have DID!! I am so sorry. That must be horribly scary for you. I wish there was some way we could help. Just know that it is not forever. Please try to be safe. I think the best thing is to be honest with what is going on.
I hope you are able to get out of there soon. We have been in many hospitals and it is very scary.

it went ok with the doctor but we didn't tell the truth. They let us out of hospital that afternoon under the eye of my parents who are convinced i am schizophrenic. Have to be careful because it would be hard to work with children as i do with any permanent diagnosis such as schizophrenia or DID.

We just said we were very depressed and scared. I don't think he believed us totally but said we could come back as an outpatient for now and see how things go. So ... fingers crossed. We have been at home chilling out and trying not to make the angry one mad again.

Maybe you're going too fast with therapy. I don't know. Either way you're going to have to stop this from
happening again. Disclose to your psychiatrist, or find someone experienced with DID.

Work on getting yourself safe first and foremost above all, then make sure you have appropriate coping
methods- then go back into the tough stuff.
When I did too much at once my system flew into a panic. They also flew into a panic when I got close
to some very sensitive stuff. Do you have anyone on the inside that can stop the angry one and help
calm them down before anything bad happens? Maybe you could work on strengthening the relationships
in the system or making sure you have a safe place or safe plan for after a therapy session?

Take this one step at a time.
I'm sorry that you had such a bad experience with medication. They doped me up with all sorts
of medication before they knew what was going on as well. I was not on Haldol but I know
someone who was (and was also misdiagnosed!) It's a bad drug.
You're not alone. Keep yourself safe and keep us updated. Sending lots of hugs to you.