hmm.... new therapist time? (i don't know what your means are though) kinda hard to get help with an issue when your therapist is in denial that you have it, huh?
When we did the disability process, we didn't completely focus on 'we are split so..' we played it up like any interview and may have **cough** exaggerated **cough-cough** some of our more disabled sounding features. like, we didn't say 'i cant work because im split'. We said 'i can't work because i black out, and employers don't like it when you missed several days without calling in'. We got accepted for disability first try, which our counselor said is unheard of, but we also had a 'diagnosed-did' letter from him in our hand. we also, during the one hour eval with a doc we had to do. we didnt let her lure us into speaking in singlese. it was almost insulting. "do you ever hear voices in your head?" uhh, yeah always. sometimes i hang with them and yak at the frontrunner too. "what makes you feel u are split?" well actually the personalities that dug me up out of comatose told me thats what was going on so I've just kinda always gone with it.
we got disabled'd too. lotta blind people, one of em learned how to use the eyes through some teamed up dissociating something-something(got someone else to use them for him while he fronted, it took some practice apparently). we got alotta not-so physical stuff... anxiety attacks around ppl, we got a paranoid claustrophobic somewhere in here. stuff like that.
If your therapist thinks your ppl are 'faking' disabilities just because your others can use whatever just fine, then maybe you should tell him the wonders of paying attention in class, so that in his next life, he'll know two things about his profession and won't be a complete ignoramous.
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Date: 2005-03-08 03:09 am (UTC)hmm.... new therapist time? (i don't know what your means are though)
kinda hard to get help with an issue when your therapist is in denial that you have it, huh?
When we did the disability process, we didn't completely focus on 'we are split so..'
we played it up like any interview and may have **cough** exaggerated **cough-cough** some of our more disabled sounding features.
like, we didn't say 'i cant work because im split'.
We said 'i can't work because i black out, and employers don't like it when you missed several days without calling in'.
We got accepted for disability first try, which our counselor said is unheard of, but we also had a 'diagnosed-did' letter from him in our hand.
we also, during the one hour eval with a doc we had to do. we didnt let her lure us into speaking in singlese. it was almost insulting. "do you ever hear voices in your head?" uhh, yeah always. sometimes i hang with them and yak at the frontrunner too. "what makes you feel u are split?" well actually the personalities that dug me up out of comatose told me thats what was going on so I've just kinda always gone with it.
we got disabled'd too. lotta blind people, one of em learned how to use the eyes through some teamed up dissociating something-something(got someone else to use them for him while he fronted, it took some practice apparently). we got alotta not-so physical stuff... anxiety attacks around ppl, we got a paranoid claustrophobic somewhere in here. stuff like that.
If your therapist thinks your ppl are 'faking' disabilities just because your others can use whatever just fine, then maybe you should tell him the wonders of paying attention in class, so that in his next life, he'll know two things about his profession and won't be a complete ignoramous.
good luck?
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