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It's all good. Glad you posted this. I find my own problems really difficult to talk about, so I tend to spend most of my time writing replies to other people that aim to be helpful. So, I imagine that (from your perspective) I might look like I'm coping really well; I certainly talk a good...

Do you feel able to tell your therapist about the fear in relation to the question? By presenting you with evidence of dissociation, they do seem to be trying to encourage you to see something that you haven't seen before.

Busy day, so I've only made it halfway through. The paper is awesome!

I would like to suggest to you that the part of you that feels the need to be 'right' has a fearful reaction to the part of you that gets things wrong. This is largely driven by my faith in the Structural Dissociation theory - if SD is right, then people with SD are afraid of their own minds...

Dissociation is easiest to spot if it happens quickly and suddenly - if you see it happen and recognize it, then it's possible to form the assessment very quickly and accurately. Your symptoms (as you describe them) don't sound like they'd be very hard to spot. The challenge is to diagnose...

Ragdoll said that she had found ways to be comfortable with having things in her head that weren't perfectly correct. You replied that you found her statement extremely frightening. My thought was "That is going to #@$! you right up, because mistakes are an inevitable consequence of humanity...

In terms of my own scripts, I don't believe that I truly know anything until I've explained it to someone, and addressed every objection that they might come up with. This has led me to get into many spectacular arguments, and I've hurt a lot of people.

In that paragraph, you've said a thing that feels wrong to me. It also seems clear that if I correct you (from my POV), then I will hurt a relationship that I value. Leaving aside how to feel about inaccuracy, this tells us that sometimes it hurts relationships when we take action about...

So please do make sure that your therapist is aware of the full complexity of your experience so that they understand how to help effectively.

I can sometimes talk with 3 of me at once, but that's after years of work. When you have lots of coping resources available, it probably is worthwhile to deliberately bring out someone else. By deliberately bringing people out, I learned how to sense them when they were emerging on their own...

The description does lean more towards psychosis than DID, I agree. The question is whether the description is literal or metaphorical. I was in the habit of using a lot of metaphors, and was nearly misdiagnosed with schizophrenia. If not for my very good therapist who asked a lot of questions...

I was talking about these topics with some doctors recently. They advise that pretty much everyone needs time. Nobody is ready when they first get the news, but with continued support, they get there. So, for what it's worth, your reaction is a completely normal healthy-person reaction.

I suspect that your therapist made a mistake. Your description of your behavior makes sense to me. I suspect that your therapist got a shorter version of the story, and misunderstood. My first instinct is to offer suggestions on how to get the therapist to understand that they made a mistake...

It's a really powerful image, and I think it communicates things quite well. I've just come out of a session with my therapist and talked about this thread in the context of my own fears and difficulties. He indicated to me that diagnosing psychosis can be difficult because sometimes people...

@FlowerGirl , your description sounds like a dissociative disorder at work to me. Given the general kind of description you provided, here are some general suggestions: - find a therapist who understands trauma - be gentle with yourself and recognize that sustainable change happens slowly -...

That sounds like a really evocative metaphor for the way that we all tend to live our lives according to patterns, and we tend to repeat ourselves. Does thinking of it as a metaphor seem valid to you?

Thanks for sharing your experience. The difference between intrusive memories and thought patterns (typically described as dissociation) and intrusive perceptions and ideas (typically described as psychosis) is an interesting one. If you have things entering your vision and experience...

When it comes to differential diagnosis of PTSD and similar problems, I find the theory of structural dissociation useful, and CPTSD useless; it doesn't offer any meaningful difference in treatment approach.

Depends very much on your definition of 'normal'! I have all of them, and I'm confident that many others here do too.

I came to the forums at 2:30am to look for help with this problem - I have a fear that if I ask for help, I will lose the ability to decide my boundaries. When negotiating with others, I try to openly acknowledge their (potentially assumed) positive intent. Then (assuming I'm at peak...

Oooh! Is there a uniform piece or name tag that you can use to signal "work or not" to yourself and others?

Some thoughts / scripts: 1) "Sir, I want to fix the problem, but I'm finding the volume level distracting. Could you speak a little more quietly so that I can understand you more easily?" If you communicate that you're not going to be able to help until they stop being abusive, it should avoid...

I think you have the truth of it there. Patience is the key. PTSD can be compared to paraplegia, and recovery to learning to walk again. Sometimes, you'll attempt too much and hurt yourself again. Other times, you'll have a great day and do more than you considered possible. Over time, your...

I had this problem, and it's been in the 'too hard' basket for 8 years now. If I could go back and do things differently, I'd talk to my psych about the problems with the trainer. My trainer didn't have the expertise needed to solve the problem of the triggers.

Most, if not all, PTSD sufferers have delayed reactions to trauma. If the bad thing is too big to handle, then we put it aside until things calm down. When things calm down, having the memories hit us can be really painful and confusing.