Posted by Dinah on February 4, 2003, at 18:10:04
In reply to Re: How much do your moods define you? » Dinah, posted by judy1 on February 4, 2003, at 16:29:27
My therapist, of course, knows because he's seen me in action. I blank out a lot in session. He's said I look like I'm watching angels dance in the corner of the room. :) And we've talked a lot about my use of it. He doesn't really offer many opinions, but when presseed he'll say that if he were qualified to diagnose his guess would be dd-nos because it doesn't fit any of the categories. But he adds that he's not qualified to diagnose.
I haven't really told my pdoc about it, because it doesn't seem like a medication sort of thing. Plus, there is just a lot of controversy and skepticism in the whole area, and I guess I'm afraid that people will think I'm claiming to be something I'm not, or making stuff up, or that I'm more disturbed than they thought. I'm not sure whether I'd be more afraid to be disbelieved or believed or most scary of all, misunderstood.
Plus much of the literature doesn't fit me at all, and the attitude of the "experts" scares me a bit. I really enjoyed "The Myth of Sanity" which discussed the milder dissociative experiences that more closely matched mine. My therapist agreed to read it, I offered to pay him to read it, and I gave him my copy. I haven't seen or heard anything about it, so I assume he forgot or wasn't interested.
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