i wish she hadn't died. but if she had to die, i wish she had died in a better way...
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Ann Garvey's List: 9-7-12
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- Psychotherapy : the therapists would help in improving the relationships with others. Finding and implementing various crisis prevention techniques to cope with memory lapse.
- Hypnosis : this helps the patient in gathering information when there is a change from one personality to another
- Eye Movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) : a treatment method which uses traumatic memories coupled with patient’s own resources to get extra information.
- Medication : antidepressants are prescribed to the patients to reduce the symptoms of Dissociative Identity Disorder
- Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) : it is opted when both medication and psychotherapy fails to achieve the desired results.
Treatment for Dissociative Identity Disorder :
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my mom was a good person. she was really nice and helpful. she always smiled and made other people smile. she helped everyone. kids, disabled kids, grownups, strangers, everyone she could help she would. she did lots of voluntear work. she worked at my school, she worked at childcare, she did arts and craft classes for kids, she worked at disabled schools, she worked with disabled kids, she worked for our church, she did so much!!
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my dad's not a angel. he's a good dad and a good person with some ruff edges. but he's not a angel. my mom was a angel.
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I am really confused about this and don’t understand why I was doing it, but I stopped myself and felt that a full confession was warranted for this misdoing that I was doing.
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For the first time in years I am seriously considering writing the sequel to my book Becoming One! So much has happened in my inner world since it was published in 1997. I have much more to say about dissociation, dissociative identity disorder, and the therapy process. I’ve evolved in many ways. Book Two has waited patiently for me to reach a point where I feel I can do it justice.
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I’m excited about having so many new writing project ideas! It’s sooo overdue. Once the mental health resources are presentable, I’ll be back to let you know what I plan to do with them. It’s a new journey, and I’m hoping you’ll come along with me!
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Today, I lost one of my pet rats. I never cope well with loss of my pets, and this was no different. I feel a strange mixture of anger, disappointment and sadness.
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They have such amazing personalities, and are so intelligent. I miss Ronan already
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Avalon’s attitude towards my parents is basically that of a 16 year old who is kind to the incomprehensible elders but has no personal relationship and who occasionally does break out into a burst of, well, 16. She likes to say outrageous things, like in this case, when my parents launched into an anecdote about my brother-in-law’s knowledge of My Little Pony (due to having a daughter), Avalon shared extensive information about bronies.
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This is so far from our usual mode of interaction that it produces confusion, and my parents deal with confusion most often with a kind of retreat into politeness.
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Except I'm also mad and excited and a bunch of other things and I've been thinking about starting to write here more again.
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My second year of graduate school has started and things are going better- less stressful- than last year.
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the daily walk
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“Just as I am.”
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Late one evening Pappa Bear and Momma Bear came home late. It was very late in the evening – so late, in fact, that it was already the next morning!
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“Boy! Am I tired!” Pappa Bear said, pulling into the driveway.
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I’ve just regained my sense of time and space after having been in a dissociated state for roughly 5 hours.
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It was really bizarre, because it seemed as though I had time-traveled and was witnessing my possible not-so-distant future. I can’t help but wonder if perhaps I was experiencing an alternate plane of reality. Maybe I was seeing another dimension, maybe I was in a parallel universe, maybe I was experiencing a vision of what will be
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My mind has been racing with images, information and questions surrounding my teen years. Still trying to answer the question of my involvement at that time. Ever since my defector appeared to me at my high school in my senior year, I cannot lay the suspicions down. I have asked all parts to help confirm or deny this and what I have been receiving is a dream life full of junior high and high school images.
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My son and daughter just finished a unit in their high school that discussed abuse and violence warning signs and what to do if you or someone else are a victim. Additionally, there are specific laws for “professionals” to report suspected abuse. If they suspect and do not report, they can be prosecuted on “neglect” charges. I looked at a large list of “warning signs” for “professionals” and was aghast over just how many of these signs I displayed during these years, to several specific people.
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Hi, all.
As I have shared before, I am working full-time hours for three more weeks. This week, my kid is out of school half the week, and we will be traveling on top of me squeezing in 40 hours of work, so I have no time to blog. I’ll try to get back to it next week. I should have more time after 10/15. :0)
~ Faith
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Listening to my body is such a new and exciting experience for me that I will probably keep returning to this topic as I explore it.
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One of the interesting things about checking blog stats is that the search that brought people to my blog is recorded. Most of the time it is just random searches for quotes I posted or other stuff but this question I thought needed an answer.
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"I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition."
- Martha Washington
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“I’ve been in these groups for the past 30 years,” she began …
… and in an instant, I felt as if someone had opened my eyes.
Just think about it.
Thirty years.
At that moment, I knew what my goal in life was going to be: I was going to get well.
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I used to help people out of obligation, because my upbringing was very full of that. I had to do certain things because you were obligated to or else it would make the abuser look bad. And you didn’t want to do that.
So it was only very recently that I have been able to move out of that.
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I’m still figuring out how to be a good blogger and do the D.I.D management thing. Is it just me or do they come out more in type. I mean, they come out in my handwriting for sure but…I don’t seem to get as distracted I don’t think. I can’t click away the page anyway. I tend to come up with things when I’m not at a computer too. I think I need to get better at keeping my daily issues recorded for myself so… I think it’s time for a new journal. Ha, I think I just want a new journal, I always want new journals.
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Man, roughly 6 years of my PTSD & D.I.D. diagnosis then too. I switched my living situation, I changed therapists a couple times, I’ve had one of my “worst”/abusive insiders do a complete 180 and he’s now learning to be a good helper part, I’ve learned a lot of symptom management, I’ve learned I can survive if I am in the same space with old abusers, I’ve learned how to set boundaries and stick to them, I’ve learned EMDR is hard but soooo worth it, I’ve learned how to trust friends, I’ve learned to trust and forgive myself, I’ve learned there is someone out there that will love me back even if I’m a little bruised up from my past, I’ve learned that yes I was affected by things that happened to me as a baby even if I don’t have the same kind of memory of those events as I have memory of things that happened when I was verbal, I’ve learned how I can stop self-injuring, I’ve learned I am DEFINITELY NOT CRAZY
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So last week our sister offered to cook for us.
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But I was saying how I need to eat more healthily, but I dont do that because when I get home from college in the evenings I’m literally exhausted and its all I can do to shove something unhealthy in the microwave or order a take away or something.
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When we came home from the hospital we could have gone for a kayak paddle. We did not as we could not know if that was best. There are many more out now and they have changed and are changing. They have been out over the last years we have always been so beat up that they could not be really. They are the ones that we had to fight them going away from the other and that is kinda still true. Difference is we can get back to the others at will. Meaning if we work really hard to create a situation where they can be than they can be. Disruptive in the now does not cover it.
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One thing that does not work for me is the I am special because I am multiple or traumatized. I see that all the time and it sometimes get put on me.
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My husband wants to invite my mother up for the holidays, either Thanksgiving or Christmas. She is now a widow which means the holidays will be difficult this year for all of us. I thought my father’s death would erase some of the hostile thoughts towards my mother and me, but I don’t know if they have or not.
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Talk to me. Tell me why I am here. Why do I come here once a week? Tell me why I am there.
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bout this photo: “Sunsets can be quite calming, and when you deal with mental health issues, finding calm can be important. This sunset helped me find calm on a particularly trying day. I was agitated and frustrated, but also depressed. I needed an escape and I found it in the form of a sunset and taking photos. I have often found that taking photos can help bring me back from difficult mood states so I can deal with whatever people or situations I need to deal with.“
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Good morning. This is just us. We've been up for about four hours. We've been moving around our general resources of people and answering correspondence. This seems to be taking more time now than it had before, but communicating with people was what it was all about, so have to think we're doing the right thing there.
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I say that especially, because we are having such a good life. We're still figuring out how to handle our system, to be helpful to others in the Multiple community, and to work with them on making it a nicer place for yet, others. PLUS, we enjoy the sewing, particularly the volunteer work. Maybe it is contradictory working on volunteer instead of helping Rich make money. That thought comes up periodically. I feel strongly though that I'm on disability for a purpose. What Dr. Marvin and I've worked on is making our life more livable so we're not at the point of wanting to commit suicide all the time. I'm not saying it doesn't come up, but again as mentioned before we don't want to live in that kind of space by being forced to do what's good for others, but not good for us.
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