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Originally Posted by scott snedeker

Contemporary psychology is helpful in establishing self identity perhaps but it lacks any method of mental exercise through daily practice, guide, or training of the conscious mind.

The conscious mind is an astonishingly potent resource for freeing other levels of awareness from the suffering that resulted from past abusive operant conditioning. IMO.

DID and MPD are labels. Labels can be used constructively or they can indulge self-injury.

Thank you =)

When I tried explaining that, although using my own wording, and in a different way, to the psychiatrist that blue papered me recently ("committed")... he chose not to understand me, and to view that as proof of the "psychosis" I supposedly have, that my abusive ex-wife invented during my divorce, and my brother jumped on the bandwagon with, when I came out about my transgendered identity to him.

I also, long ago, came to the conclusion that the DID/MPD model listed in the DSM was faulty, that being Multiple is Healthy... but not everyone can really see it in themselves as clearly as others... Nor do they ~need~ to, in order to live a happy, healthy, fulfilling life... Especially since, for me, it was the extreme abuse I suffered that separated... ~tore apart~... my "selves" so definitively in the past... but now we have a very loving, sharing, relationship that just keeps growing stronger and more loving, and, day to day, no one outside my head can even tell the difference anymore unless I ~show~ them ;-)

It's nice to have outside verification of what I already know and understand, in a wide variety of ways... I gain the confidence in my own self that I lost along the way... and now need to protect myself and my daughter ~smiles~