Comments on: APA Guidelines & Therapy http://www.new-landscape.com/2008/04/apa-guidelines-therapy/ New York support group for people with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) / Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) Tue, 27 Dec 2011 21:08:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: chariots http://www.new-landscape.com/2008/04/apa-guidelines-therapy/comment-page-1/#comment-351 chariots Wed, 07 May 2008 17:26:43 +0000 http://blog.new-landscape.com/?p=24#comment-351 From reading some of your blog - whew! Your last therapist definitely sounds like she was WAY off base. I wonder how many people have to get 'extra' therapy just to deal with the poor therapy they've already had??!! It seems like so many DIDs have been misdiagnosed and mis-drugged - for years! If they had a crappy childhood, then struggled and get terrible help, then finally get diagnosed correctly and possibly get good help - yeeesh!! ..... what a struggle..... I'm so glad you have a good T now. I'm so glad you're still alive to tell your story. What exactly is 'holding' therapy? Do they force a hug on you till you cry and get mad and all that? ....doesn't sound very good to me.... From reading some of your blog – whew! Your last therapist definitely sounds like she was WAY off base. I wonder how many people have to get ‘extra’ therapy just to deal with the poor therapy they’ve already had??!! It seems like so many DIDs have been misdiagnosed and mis-drugged – for years! If they had a crappy childhood, then struggled and get terrible help, then finally get diagnosed correctly and possibly get good help – yeeesh!! ….. what a struggle…..

I’m so glad you have a good T now. I’m so glad you’re still alive to tell your story.

What exactly is ‘holding’ therapy? Do they force a hug on you till you cry and get mad and all that? ….doesn’t sound very good to me….

]]> By: Kathryn http://www.new-landscape.com/2008/04/apa-guidelines-therapy/comment-page-1/#comment-350 Kathryn Wed, 07 May 2008 01:22:13 +0000 http://blog.new-landscape.com/?p=24#comment-350 I think so. Our last T hurt us deeply, though. Even attempted suicide in her office because of her. She did "holding" therapy and unnaturally bonded a lot of us to her. She gave us a key to her office (she was perpetually late) and then accused of stealing her clock -- which never happened. She claimed someone inside took it and I didn't remember. She then proceeded to say she wanted to slap us, that we were blackmailing her emotionally and a bunch of other stuff I can't remember now. That day I almost died because I took 30 Elavil and 30 Restoril and ended up on life support. 2 weeks later we OD'd again, this time on Ambien and Unisom. Not a good time. Eight hospitalizations and 2 overdoses in 8 months last year it took us to realize she was trying to destroy us. Makes me cry right now just typing it all out. We felt so alone that day. But now we have an amazing T. One who doesn't threaten us with dumping us or call us names or bond us to her in weird ways. Stephanie was a scary woman. I think so. Our last T hurt us deeply, though. Even attempted suicide in her office because of her. She did “holding” therapy and unnaturally bonded a lot of us to her. She gave us a key to her office (she was perpetually late) and then accused of stealing her clock — which never happened. She claimed someone inside took it and I didn’t remember. She then proceeded to say she wanted to slap us, that we were blackmailing her emotionally and a bunch of other stuff I can’t remember now. That day I almost died because I took 30 Elavil and 30 Restoril and ended up on life support. 2 weeks later we OD’d again, this time on Ambien and Unisom. Not a good time. Eight hospitalizations and 2 overdoses in 8 months last year it took us to realize she was trying to destroy us. Makes me cry right now just typing it all out. We felt so alone that day.

But now we have an amazing T. One who doesn’t threaten us with dumping us or call us names or bond us to her in weird ways. Stephanie was a scary woman.

]]> By: JigsawAnalogy-ellis http://www.new-landscape.com/2008/04/apa-guidelines-therapy/comment-page-1/#comment-349 JigsawAnalogy-ellis Tue, 06 May 2008 19:30:20 +0000 http://blog.new-landscape.com/?p=24#comment-349 yeah, i'm talking about the treatment, not the writing, guidelines. can't say as i much like the writing guidelines, either, but that's disciplinary prejudice--i prefer the writing guidelines for history, because that's my academic discipline. parenthetical citations drive me BONKERS. it really sucks that there are therapists out there who are jerks, or incompetent, or just not able to acknowledge they aren't a good match with a client. on the other hand, maybe it helps us to appreciate the good therapists to know about all the mediocre-to-bad ones. glad you have a good one now. yeah, i’m talking about the treatment, not the writing, guidelines.

can’t say as i much like the writing guidelines, either, but that’s disciplinary prejudice–i prefer the writing guidelines for history, because that’s my academic discipline. parenthetical citations drive me BONKERS.

it really sucks that there are therapists out there who are jerks, or incompetent, or just not able to acknowledge they aren’t a good match with a client. on the other hand, maybe it helps us to appreciate the good therapists to know about all the mediocre-to-bad ones. glad you have a good one now.

]]> By: Kathryn http://www.new-landscape.com/2008/04/apa-guidelines-therapy/comment-page-1/#comment-348 Kathryn Tue, 06 May 2008 14:48:39 +0000 http://blog.new-landscape.com/?p=24#comment-348 My T has never mentioned guidelines. Our last T? She was horrid. She said we made her have sadistic thoughts and emotionally blackmailed her. She was terrible. This T, though, awesome. I don't know what the guidelines are for treatment. I use APA Guidelines for school, lol. That just tells you how to align your paper on the page and how to cite references. I am sure you're talking about something totally different. My T has never mentioned guidelines. Our last T? She was horrid. She said we made her have sadistic thoughts and emotionally blackmailed her. She was terrible. This T, though, awesome. I don’t know what the guidelines are for treatment. I use APA Guidelines for school, lol. That just tells you how to align your paper on the page and how to cite references. I am sure you’re talking about something totally different.

]]> By: michelle http://www.new-landscape.com/2008/04/apa-guidelines-therapy/comment-page-1/#comment-347 michelle Fri, 02 May 2008 21:15:19 +0000 http://blog.new-landscape.com/?p=24#comment-347 i am glad our therapist isn't hung up on guidelines. we are treated like humans and addressed in ways that are appropriate for each varying age we have. i don't think we would get very far if a little one were treated like an adult or told to act more like one, or if an adult were treated like a kid. i think our therapist has pretty much ignored some of the so called 'rules' and has done what seems appropriate and 'human' instead. this (d.i.d.) is our reality. i think our therapist really just tries to meet us in our reality. and i think it's working better than staunchly abiding by rules ever could. we function in the world pretty good now - really well even. we contribute to world around us and make a difference, even as we are. i think our t has really helped us a lot - because of going outside of the box. my captcha words were baseball and heavy. i like the funny words too! i am glad our therapist isn’t hung up on guidelines. we are treated like humans and addressed in ways that are appropriate for each varying age we have. i don’t think we would get very far if a little one were treated like an adult or told to act more like one, or if an adult were treated like a kid. i think our therapist has pretty much ignored some of the so called ‘rules’ and has done what seems appropriate and ‘human’ instead.

this (d.i.d.) is our reality. i think our therapist really just tries to meet us in our reality. and i think it’s working better than staunchly abiding by rules ever could. we function in the world pretty good now – really well even. we contribute to world around us and make a difference, even as we are. i think our t has really helped us a lot – because of going outside of the box.

my captcha words were baseball and heavy. i like the funny words too!

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