The likelihood of any 'mental health professional' believing in the reality of your Kin is slight. According to orthodox psychiatric dogma, it is not possible for more than one person to share a single body; therefore those who perceive themselves to do so are, by definition, mentally disordered.
According to established psychiatric tradition, it is acceptable to lie to and emotionally manipulate the mentally disordered under the pretext of 'helping them'. This frequently takes the form of pretending to believe whatever the disordered person claims to be true. You are certainly not the first to be taken in by this ruse.
What you may now expect of this person is that she will attempt to discredit you in the eyes of as many people as possible, by telling them things you have told her in as damning a way as possible and insisting that you are crazy. I do not know you or your situation, therefore cannot advise you, but can tell you that in a similar situation my advice to my own sister was to 'confess' that she had made it all up, that my brother and I did not exist outside of her imagination.
She did this, and while the consequences were not pleasant for her, they were better than they might otherwise have been. In this society, lying is such common custom that to be viewed as a liar carries no great weight of opprobrium, while to be viewed as mentally ill poses clear and present danger. I know it goes against the grain to claim that one was lying when one was not, but it is the most expedient way to contain the potential damage from having spoken truth when one should not have.
There is no way to prove you are multiple if you say that you are not. There is no way for this woman to prove any allegations of what you said to her, if no one else heard you say it. You have what is called 'plausible deniability' on your side, for most people in this place do not believe in multiplicity.
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Date: 2005-11-21 09:05 pm (UTC)According to established psychiatric tradition, it is acceptable to lie to and emotionally manipulate the mentally disordered under the pretext of 'helping them'. This frequently takes the form of pretending to believe whatever the disordered person claims to be true. You are certainly not the first to be taken in by this ruse.
What you may now expect of this person is that she will attempt to discredit you in the eyes of as many people as possible, by telling them things you have told her in as damning a way as possible and insisting that you are crazy. I do not know you or your situation, therefore cannot advise you, but can tell you that in a similar situation my advice to my own sister was to 'confess' that she had made it all up, that my brother and I did not exist outside of her imagination.
She did this, and while the consequences were not pleasant for her, they were better than they might otherwise have been. In this society, lying is such common custom that to be viewed as a liar carries no great weight of opprobrium, while to be viewed as mentally ill poses clear and present danger. I know it goes against the grain to claim that one was lying when one was not, but it is the most expedient way to contain the potential damage from having spoken truth when one should not have.
There is no way to prove you are multiple if you say that you are not. There is no way for this woman to prove any allegations of what you said to her, if no one else heard you say it. You have what is called 'plausible deniability' on your side, for most people in this place do not believe in multiplicity.