Our society tends to regard as a sickness any mode of thought or behavior that is inconvenient for the system and this is plausible because when an individual doesn't fit into the system it causes pain to the individual as well as problems for the system. Thus the manipulation of an individual to adjust him to the system is seen as a cure for a sickness and therefore as good.
Theodore J. KaczynskiTags: perspective society sanity sickness discrimination mental-health mental-illness abuse-of-power anti-psychiatrity anti-stigma judged label labeling labeling-someone labelling mental-disorder mental-health-stigma mental-health-system
Somehow the disorder hooks into all kinds of fears and insecurities in many clinicians. The flamboyance of the multiple, her intelligence and ability to conceptualize the disorder, coupled with suicidal impulses of various orders of seriousness, all seem to mask for many therapists the underlying pain, dependency, and need that are very much part of the process. In many ways, a professional dealing with a multiple in crisis is in the same position as a parent dealing with a two-year-old or with an adolescent's acting-out behavior. (236)
Lynn I. WilsonTags: psychiatry psychotherapy mental-health-stigma dissociative-identity-disorder mental-health-professionals multiple-personality-disorder psychiatric-abuse
They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me.
Nathaniel LeeTags: insanity madness mad psychiatry mental-health mental-illness mental-disorder mental-health-stigma insane-world insanity-is-normal psychiatry-humor
Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don't understand.
Megan ChanceTags: insanity sanity explanation prejudice crazy mystery discrimination psychiatry understand mental-illness bias stereotype lunacy explain mental-disorder mental-health-stigma stigma diagnosis psychology-quotes sane-and-insane
The stigmatized individual is asked to act so as to imply neither that his burden is heavy nor that bearing it has made him different from us; at the same time he must keep himself at that remove from us which assures our painlessly being able to confirm this belief about him. Put differently, he is advised to reciprocate naturally with an acceptance of himself and us, an acceptance of him that we have not quite extended to him in the first place. A PHANTOM ACCEPTANCE is thus allowed to provide the base for a PHANTOM NORMALCY.
Erving GoffmanTags: discrimination mental-health-stigma stigma stigmatization
My therapist told me that I over-analyze everything. I explained to him that he only thinks this because of his unhappy relationship with his mother.
Michelle TempletTags: humor satire mental-illness mental-health-stigma
The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.
Juliette LewisTags: despair courage bravery suicide death-and-dying hopelessness mental-health mental-illness suicidality mental-disorder mental-health-stigma suicidal-thoughts death-wish
As special as it is to listen to your friends argue over whether or not you have a mental illness,I'm starting to get the urge to go back to class.
Kendare BlakeTags: humor friendship friends school class mental-illness mental-health-stigma mental-health-humor stigmata
Despite the growing clinical and research interest in dissociative symptoms and disorders, it is also true that the substantial prevalence rates for dissociative disorders are still disproportional to the number of studies addressing these conditions.
For example, schizophrenia has a reported rate of 0.55% to 1% of the normal population (Goldner, Hus, Waraich,
Tags: research psychiatry mental-health funding mental-health-stigma dissociative-identity-disorder multiple-personality-disorder split-personality stigma dissociative-disorders dsm
I believe the perception of what people think about DID is I might be crazy, unstable, and low functioning. After my diagnosis, I took a risk by sharing my story with a few friends. It was quite upsetting to lose a long term relationship with a friend because she could not accept my diagnosis. But it spurred me to take action. I wanted people to be informed that anyone can have DID and achieve highly functioning lives. I was successful in a career, I was married with children, and very active in numerous activities. I was highly functioning because I could dissociate the trauma from my life through my alters. Essentially, I survived because of DID. That's not to say I didn't fall down along the way. There were long term therapy visits, and plenty of hospitalizations for depression, medication adjustments, and suicide attempts. After a year, it became evident I was truly a patient with the diagnosis of DID from my therapist and psychiatrist. I had two choices.
First, I could accept it and make choices about how I was going to deal with it. My therapist told me when faced with DID, a patient can learn to live with the live with the alters and make them part of one's life. Or, perhaps, the patient would like to have the alters integrate into one person, the host, so there are no more alters. Everyone is different.
The patient and the therapist need to decide which is best for the patient. Secondly, the other choice was to resist having alters all together and be miserable, stuck in an existence that would continue to be crippling. Most people with DID are cognizant something is not right with themselves even if they are not properly diagnosed. My therapist was trustworthy, honest, and compassionate. Never for a moment did I believe she would steer me in the wrong direction. With her help and guidance, I chose to learn and understand my disorder. It was a turning point.
Tags: education psychology understanding suicide awareness healing mental-health mental-health-stigma multiplicity dissociative-identity-disorder multiple-personality-disorder breakthrough split-personality stigma dissociative alters psychiatric-hospital
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