Posted by shelliR on July 22, 2001, at 14:01:37
In reply to Re: I'll hold your hand if you'll hold mine » shelliR, posted by Elizabeth on July 19, 2001, at 11:59:19
> Is Sheppard Pratt affiliated with Johns Hopkins, by any chance? It sounds like a teaching hospital. >No, JH has its own hospital and psych units.
> > As far as the TCAs working, I never got past the first day on two different ones.
> Which two? >have no clue, it was so long ago.
> > > I was there for a month (which is what my insurance covered), but there were people in there up to a year.
> I don't know about Maryland, but Medicaid in Massachusetts will cover a lot, probably more than most private insurance. I've encountered people who had MassHealth and spent a year or more in the hospital.
> > I was not really part of that era, and never part of the federal government at all.
> What era was that? (chronologically, I mean)< < <Probably up through the 70s.
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
>That's pretty funny. I didn't know anything about Roseanne being in "the bin." If what you heard is true, I agree that she's probably not experiencing dissociation. MPD is a sort of fad diagnosis in some hospitals (just as borderline personality is at McLean), and some people who crave attention or are very suggestible probably pretend to have it, or are convinced by their therapists that they actually do have it. I think it's probably a real condition, but not nearly as common as some people seem to think.
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >There is no question that it is a real condition; I've spent a lot of time with multiples in the hospital since I go on the dissociative disorders unit (I have a DDNOS diagnosis). My last roommate had suffered torture by her father and in a prison in Saudi Arabia (because she told her father she *might* be gay at age 17 and he had her incarcerated ) and she had three very strong adult personalities that I related to at different times. They were all pretty down to earth, just had different ideas of life and had played different roles in her development. The personality that was the one who was conscious during the torture, was angry that my roommate didn't just get on with her life. But this girl had only learned about these inside personalities weeks before and it is an overwhelming and scary experience when someone first realizes that horrible things have happened to them that they have no knowledge of, and that there are different personalities inside which account for things that they haven't understood. e.g., when they suddenly find themselves in a different city and have no clue why. The book I like the most on DID (MPD) is The Magic Daughter. It is the well written and not histrionic at all. Mostly what I see in the hospital are people with a central personality and short periods of breakthroughs of other personalities that I meet in a more fleeting way. I think at Sheppard Pratt they tend to disagnosis most people with dissociative disorders as multiple. Lowenstein (head pdoc there) has much looser criteria for a DID diagnosis than Putnam (at NIMH) and the latest DSM is somewhat ambiguous.
I think that overall (Sheppard Pratt and other like institutions, withstanding), DID is actually under diagnosed in the population.
Have you gotten your serum levels tested yet. You think that you are taking more desiprimine than you are absorbing?We are having pretty decent weather here, for July in the swamp. Hope you are also.
Shelli
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