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Another Little Update
Hi folks – a little update. Thank you all for checking in on me. Still job search which has become a full time job. And quite frankly, to effectively perform a job search requires some strong dissociation of emotions in the face of the econony and the repeated, “We really like you and feel you would be a significant contributor, but this position has been put on hold for changing business needs.”
“Changing business needs.”
<story of my fcking life right about now>
Final Call for “Cover Diagnosis” Survey Participation
Hi – This is a final call for inputs for the survey I posted a while back – please consider responding before Sunday so I can compile results.
Review: “Duality” by Dannie Abse
Shortly after I was attacked at 16, I read a poem in a high school creative writing class by Dannie Abse called “Duality.” Instantly I knew the poem was about me. I had no idea at the time I would end up with a diagnosis of DID, but since then, I’ve wondered if he’s got a touch of the dissociation as well.
Twice upon a time,
there was a man who had two faces.
two faces but one profile …
At signposts, he must wear the both.
Dannie Abse
Review: Yes “The Ancients” and the Selves Who Wait for Me
I wrote an essay on switching last year. It ended with the realization that, as always, I/Cami am the last to know anything. That my inability to make a decision is based on more than my thoughts. That *I* was the last to know that I am not alone in here.
Then I heard my life in song and saw it in video.
Problems that arise treating a DID patient without the skills to do so
Sometimes I am so damn stupid.
I keep falling into the same trap and I am amazed that I haven’t figured it out, but continue to let myself be an idiot. I assume that everyone is an expert. That everyone, in their chosen field, knows more than the average bear.
Kinda like that old riddle:
“What do you call a med student who graduates with a D average?”
“Dr.”
Myers Briggs and Keirsey Personality Tests in Dissociative Identity Disorder
Myers Briggs Type Indicator and Keirsey Temperaments are two different personality questionnaires to help people understand themselves and to assess psychological differences. I had struggled taking the Myers Briggs before my diagnosis (“This test sucks – I feel two ways about MOST of these questions!”). After my DX, I wondered if different personalities in DID have different types, so I decided to test it out. Survey says, Yup!
Review: Coming Out Multiple – King
When I was first coming to terms with this whole DID thing and was paranoid to mention it to anyone, I tripped across a funny article by Bob King called Coming Out Multiple. It was one of the first things I showed a few people close to me to introduce the topic with humor.
Lamictal – a drug for DID?
“Although there are no medications that specifically treat dissociative identity disorder, [some drugs] may be prescribed to help control the …symptoms associated with it.” [Stephens]
Oh yeah? Check out Lamictal.
Believing the first 4/6 of the Dissociative Spectrum, but not the rest
October 3, 2008 at 4:26 pm · Filed under Comments, Information, multiple personality disorder, Personal Musings, Understanding DID and tagged: alters, amnesia, coping mechanisms, DID, dissociation, emotional numbing, flashbacks, MPD dissociative identity disorder, multiple personality disorder, PTSD, traumatic memories
Does DID/MPD exist as a clinical condition, or is DID/MPD “just an extreme example of what we all do every day.”?
Is this an “either/or” question or do these really say the same thing?
These thoughts and words come from a post that Annenco sent me – a post from someone who attempts to explore and resolve the concept of DID/MPD in 400 words or less. Hers is a kinder, gentler stereotype – tempering the concept into something everyone can more easily reject.
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