Posted by Craig on July 23, 2000, at 3:03:11
In reply to Re: New diagnosis today-re DID » Craig, posted by shellie on July 22, 2000, at 9:22:32
Hi Shellie. Although I was Dr. Braun's patient in Chicago on the Dissociative Disorders unit in 1988, he wasn't the first doctor to diagnose me with MPD. I was first diagnosed in 1981 during a different hospital admission in Michigan. Yeah, they were right. They showed me the videos they made of me and it was undeniable. (And I was upset when I found out that they made them using a two-way mirror so a bunch of doctors could see this firsthand. Later on, they had me go to Grand Rounds where even more doctors ask you questions and study you.) My own psychiatrist spent years hoping to "cure" me and had me undergo consultations with other psychiatrists to verify this diagnosis and make treatment plans. These psychiatrists felt that the goal was to work toward integration. I guess I wasn't a very cooperative patient. They told me that I needed to be a whole person. I told them that all I wanted to be was a good person and asked, "Can't I be a good person without being a whole person?" Well, they weren't so sure about that. In the end, it basically boiled down to the fact that I wasn't so sure that I wanted to be "integrated." I quit therapy in 1988 and have never looked back. When Dr. Braun told me that I'd come back to his unit, he made all sorts of dire predictions about what I'd become if I didn't follow his plans. Suffice to say that he was wrong and I'm living proof of it. Of course I still dissociate.......
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> So, Craig, I won't ask for any specifics since you don't like talking about it. But in spite of the Braun/hospital horrible, and possiblely unethical experience, do you feel they gave you the right diagnosis and you left the hospital with a good treatment plan? shellie
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