Posted by Dinah on February 13, 2005, at 10:11:43
In reply to Re: :-) » Dinah, posted by Pfinstegg on February 13, 2005, at 9:23:40
I don't think that my conception of my degree of dissociation has changed in eight or nine years, maybe more. As soon as I started giving thought to what was going on inside when I started therapy. Before that, it never much occurred to me that my behavior and thought processes were out of the ordinary. I grew in my understanding and ability to verbalize because I started out with very little vocabulary on the subject, but the basic ideas have pretty much remained unchanged.
It took my therapist another couple of years to be comfortable with my talking about it in a direct way. By that time, he realized that my ego state structure was quite stable and he wasn't afraid of "encouraging" polyfragmentation or anything. I know, I'm not proud of him either, but it is the prevalent thinking.
Since then he's been terrific about it. He does have experience in the area, although his experience left him more cautious than eager. But he is very accepting, and understands my goals.
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