Ok, so...went through the work up for electro convulsive therapy today.
Then the psychiatrist in charge of the program came in...and she told me...that Dissociative Identity Disorders had been removed from the DSM 5.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSM-5
Since I don't have a copy of said manual ( yet ) I was...needless to say, a little stunned. I felt like I'd just been invalidated by the whole fricken' system.
She then told me that since my depression was yielding to the new med ( in my 5-med psych pill trail mix ) that she was not recommending ECT. It's true that I am better...but for how long before yet another med craps out? I guess I get to find out, huh...
She then went on to inform me me that what WAS DID is now all considered Borderline Personality Disorder.
So she again offered the intensive outpatient program...which my regular psych doc has offered...
I would happily do the IOP if the facility wasn't an hour one way from my house, and the IOP program in the middle of every other day for an hour and a half. If I could come once a week for four and a half hours? Cool. But as it is, I would have to allocate 10 1/2 hours a week to utilizing that program.
I also need to go find AT LEAST 40 hours a week of work, drive back and forth to same, work out, socialize, and engage in self-care. Not to mention the usual clean house water dog get car fixed go to medical doctor cook food meditate 20 minutes a day...
Too, I have had a year of DBT classes. I have a DBT workbook. This would be more DBT. I could use more DBT reinforcement...but I'd like help in dealing with my trauma as well, because I keep getting memories back?
...I gather I'm a resistant patient because I can't show up in the middle of the day an hour from my house 3 days a week.
Or because I want a trauma specialist like I had before I ran out of the money to pay for one on a sliding-scale? The guy I was seeing through the county was nice but I felt like...meh. He wasn't really specialized in trauma.
So I just need to go make that money and find my own therapist.
BUT THE THING IS...I wanted help with the depression that has kept me fairly squashed down and at a reduced to very reduced level of functioning. Not emotional regulation.
ANYWAY
I came home and did a little searching. It seems the psychiatrist...was wrong about Dissociative Identity Disorder getting removed from the DSM- 5
http://www.theravive.com/therapedia/Dissociative-Identity-Disorder-(DID)-DSM--5-300.14-(F44.81)
So she either doesn't know what she is talking about, or she deliberately lied.
Too? Since the DID needs to be treated via therapy, I was not asking her for help with that. ECT treats severe depression.
Meaning she had no reason to bring up the DID in relation to electro convulsive therapy.
If I want ECT, I don't think I had better go to someone who's willing to casually invalidate a patient, or to hand out incorrect information that...she can and should check.
Then the psychiatrist in charge of the program came in...and she told me...that Dissociative Identity Disorders had been removed from the DSM 5.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSM-5
Since I don't have a copy of said manual ( yet ) I was...needless to say, a little stunned. I felt like I'd just been invalidated by the whole fricken' system.
She then told me that since my depression was yielding to the new med ( in my 5-med psych pill trail mix ) that she was not recommending ECT. It's true that I am better...but for how long before yet another med craps out? I guess I get to find out, huh...
She then went on to inform me me that what WAS DID is now all considered Borderline Personality Disorder.
So she again offered the intensive outpatient program...which my regular psych doc has offered...
I would happily do the IOP if the facility wasn't an hour one way from my house, and the IOP program in the middle of every other day for an hour and a half. If I could come once a week for four and a half hours? Cool. But as it is, I would have to allocate 10 1/2 hours a week to utilizing that program.
I also need to go find AT LEAST 40 hours a week of work, drive back and forth to same, work out, socialize, and engage in self-care. Not to mention the usual clean house water dog get car fixed go to medical doctor cook food meditate 20 minutes a day...
Too, I have had a year of DBT classes. I have a DBT workbook. This would be more DBT. I could use more DBT reinforcement...but I'd like help in dealing with my trauma as well, because I keep getting memories back?
...I gather I'm a resistant patient because I can't show up in the middle of the day an hour from my house 3 days a week.
Or because I want a trauma specialist like I had before I ran out of the money to pay for one on a sliding-scale? The guy I was seeing through the county was nice but I felt like...meh. He wasn't really specialized in trauma.
So I just need to go make that money and find my own therapist.
BUT THE THING IS...I wanted help with the depression that has kept me fairly squashed down and at a reduced to very reduced level of functioning. Not emotional regulation.
ANYWAY
I came home and did a little searching. It seems the psychiatrist...was wrong about Dissociative Identity Disorder getting removed from the DSM- 5
http://www.theravive.com/therapedia/Dissociative-Identity-Disorder-(DID)-DSM--5-300.14-(F44.81)
So she either doesn't know what she is talking about, or she deliberately lied.
Too? Since the DID needs to be treated via therapy, I was not asking her for help with that. ECT treats severe depression.
Meaning she had no reason to bring up the DID in relation to electro convulsive therapy.
If I want ECT, I don't think I had better go to someone who's willing to casually invalidate a patient, or to hand out incorrect information that...she can and should check.
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