Posted by Dinah on April 21, 2011, at 8:28:01
In reply to Anyone have DID-NOS with ego states? + Question, posted by rainangel85 on April 20, 2011, at 20:36:46
My therapist says that if he were to diagnose me, it would likely be DID-NOS, but it's a pretty broad catch-all diagnosis. My experience isn't really like what you describe.
I see only advantage to hearing all parts of you. Otherwise you'll have no idea how you feel about things. I tend to be, left to myself, very analytical and intellectual. Yet part of me is emotional and unreasonable. If I don't allow the emotional and unreasonable side of me speak, it tends to scream for attention.
It does make me feel a bit uneasy that your therapist has treated *many* full blown DID's over the years. It's my understanding that it's very very rare. Is she an acknowledged expert in the field? I have another (non mental health) doctor who has had a lot of experience with celiac disease. Despite the fact that the tests for the disease has been negative for me, and my personal experience shows that when I'm symptomatic, bread is the best thing for me to eat, she still pushes the diagnosis on me because some parts of it fit. Just not the actual gluten part. She's a good doctor and I'm keeping her, just as your therapist can be a good therapist, while still be likely to interpret things based on her previous experiences.
I'm not denying your personal experiences, or those of your friends. I'm just pointing out that there is often more than one way to view and frame experiences. I think it's perfectly reasonable to be cautious and keep a certain open mindedness to different ways of framing things. So that it's possible to question the response of your age states as being open to suggestion, while being open to the feelings they express as being totally valid and worth listening to. One of the advantages to DID-NOS is that your experiences don't have to fit into a template of diagnosis. It's possible to think of them as feeling states with goals and feelings separate from that of most of you without being rigid as to their "reality" as separate entities.
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