I don’t trust psychotherapists. Many of them are in College Fraternities (Secret Societies). There is nothing that you can tell these people that will be kept confidential. These Secret Societies are being put into every position of power. They have created an invisible society within our society. If a potential employer (who is in a Secret Society) or a government agent wants to know your deepest darkest secrets, this “psychotherapist” will tell them everything about you (without a warrant). They are loyal to their Fraternity, above everything else, and it is ultra secretive. This is the big secret that the “mainstream” American public doesn’t know.

People often wonder why Secret Societies are soooo secretive. Its because if you don’t know about it, you can’t complain that your rights were violated. They will say, “it never happened!” I was sexually assulted by these people as a child, and as predicted, they are saying “it never happened.” My blog:

http://goodcraftsman.wordpress.com

I just wanted to say, great site!

I am a psychotherapist in Toronto looking to network with other therapists. If you want, you can check out my website or blog. http://www.kimberlymoffit.com or http://www.torontopsychotherapist.blogspot.com.

Hope to hear from you soon,

Kim

When you look at real, biochemical illnesses that affect mood and behavior, you see that they ALWAYS affect not only one particular area of functioning (such as energy, mood, or behavior), but rather span through almost every level of cognition. Schizophrenia, for example, causes disorders in mood, thought, language, speech, psychomotor behavior and perception. It is a true illness likely caused by a genetic malformation of the brain. Parkinson’s Disease is similar: a lack of dopamine which cause motor neutron degradation and, very frequently, profound depression. But people diagnosed with so-called bipolar disorder usually do not have any impairment in their cognitive abilities or psychomotor behavior. More often than not they are labile Borderline Personalities who would respond positively to therapy, or even victims of trauma and abuse (which may accompany Borderline Personalties) who need to address these issued and be successfully treated. To dope them up on powerful antipsychotics and anticonvulsants is simply bad medicine.

One only has to start delving into the buddhist literature to become aware of its cultural contextualism and concommitant changes in practice. trying to still the mind by being still, only poses a problem of movement, for that becomes a distraction – the world is not still. Jung again – on the one who seeks a world where nothing changes.

The connectedness of all things is ok for those who have time and composure for such “thoughts”. yet they do seem to be transcendental justifications for more practical issues of what to do when you can sleep or cannot stop thinking (about everything and its connection – which in heightened manic type states becomes exhausting and non productive, or rather productive of anything and everything)

Yet mindfulness is, if we regard the mind as the body, connected with touch and breathing and physical states, such as warmth and cold. Emptying the mind via such immediate non cognitive experiences can help ameliorate this overwhelming tendency to simply, halt the mind (for a while), which is what mindfulness therapies seem to do: though to justify that is more than there is space for here.
Where do i meditate, walking, running, swimming – mindfull of my breathing (especially the out breath!), and my contact with what i touch

As someone with DID I think I can actually hear what you are saying and urge those who are also suffering, to read without defensive guards up so strong maybe…I don’t think you are saying you don’t ‘believe’ in DID?

As someone who spend several years in hospital with multiple misdiagnosis and harmful treatments…when I eventually did get the right diagnosis I could see the propensity for this, and its not anything to do with ‘faking’ at all. I could be totally wrong but I think it becomes a potential risk when the ‘jargon’ within the DID diagnosis (or any diagnosis) is too heavy in therapy.

For most of us who have lived with DID all our lives we have never needed to communicate about it to anyone (or wanted to…or even been aware that it wasn’t normal for everyone). To get help you need to use ‘language’ , but words have the potential to make things more ‘fixed’, solid, and concrete when shared. Think about it in reverse…if you are someone who has flashbacks of abuse…it is in converting it to words and sharing it that it becomes ‘fixed’ a reality etc..not just symbolic, imagery, and emotion etc. I think that there is a risk in this when trying to express and describe much of the experience of DID. So in getting treatment I do question semantics around DID a lot…as in…is it not a small part of therapy to point out similarities rather than emphasis disparity?

eg: If someone without DID has a sudden shift in mood, we don’t say they have ’switched’, yet to say that to someone with DID…is that the best, most helpful way to describe it? there comes a time in therapy where ’switching’ can be a be a bit stuck, incomplete…very uncomfortable it is somewhat natural to want to aliveate that discomfort, so we agree and understand it as ’switching’, rather than try and find words to explain how that is changing …maybe toward something healthier…you can see over time how this could hinder or slow up therapy, simply form semantics attached to the diagnosis…hard to explain this…switch is a very definitive, absolute word. Even if we experience it that way, in therapy many of us are trying to break down the walls of segregation within us, the jargon around the diagnosis I believe can hinder this. Language is a hugely powerful tool and I suggested to my therapist that we didn’t use the ‘jargon’ around DID diagnosis (I am not a label…I do not want to identify with the diagnosis…I am aiming to identify with myself!) It is harder to communicate, but possible, it points out similarity rather than difference, it allows room to describe ‘in between or less complete changes etc.

At the end of the day its whatever suits the person and is most helpful for you. I just suggest considering what Delany Dean has said, as a professional…this person is NOT invalidating or discrediting any of us with a DID diagnosis…just maybe suggesting some inherent dangers in the diagnosis regarding treatment. At the end of the day this is our primary defense against the hell life can be. So the thought of letting go of that, is painfully frightening…but isn’t that why we are in therapy? to learn a better way? To see the similarities within ourselves rather than accentuating the differences, to accept ALL as ‘I’, rather than allowing the lack of acceptance thought definitive and segregating terms? that means considering the advise of others with experience in helping us…and holding off just a bit on defending our existence, to first hear what they are saying.

I am terrible at explaining myself..so if anyone hears what I’m saying but can explain it better that would be cool!!

just a thought…

My journey with counseling began when I was 4, my father passed away due to a traumatic accident, and was never prescribed with anything up until the plethora of BS mainstream BI polar drugs/uptake inhibitors went onto the market. Long story short; I almost commited suicide because the drugs made me severely depressed. It is an epidemic in my opinion.

It’s nice to hear that more people have a similar opinion on the subject. I feel bad for all of those poor children out there who are being prayed upon. Especially since a lot of these drugs have unknown long term side effects.

The underlying model developed by our team of psychologists reveals an underlying complexity far richer than just ’strict’ or ‘relaxed’ classifications.

And what’s particularly interesting is that you can take the test for a spouse and see where potential conflicts might lie and get advice on how to deal w/them. You can also compare results to your friends’.