Why Is Safety with a Therapist So Important in DID or OSDD Treatment?
Safety is crucial to therapy for DID and OSDD because healing cannot happen without it. Healing is teaching your nervous system that it no longer needs to protect itself in…
Why Does Therapy Feel Scary Even with a Safe Therapist?
Therapy can feel frightening even with a safe therapist because therapy often activates old survival responses and implicit memories connected to past relationships and trauma. For example, therapy may ask…
What Are Signs of a Good Therapist for DID or OSDD?
Signs of a good therapist for DID or OSDD include: experience and training in treating complex trauma a belief in DID and OSDD and an understanding that they are not…
How Can I Know if My Anxiety in Therapy Is Due to Past Memories or the Therapist?
It is important to remember that trauma survivors and dissociative systems may sometimes feel fear, danger, or distrust even with safe therapists because therapy can activate implicit memories and old…
What Are Red Flags in DID or OSDD Therapy?
While it may be obvious, I still need to say it: a major red flag for therapy for DID and OSDD is a therapist who doesn’t believe DID or OSDD…
My Therapist Seems Great. Why Am I Feeling Like Something Bad Could Happen Suddenly?
When you have a therapist you believe is qualified and is working with you well, it can be confusing and distressing to have unexplained feelings of danger in session. Often,…
How Do I Know If a Therapist is Qualified to Treat DID or OSDD?
There is no recognized professional certification specifically for DID and OSDD, which makes it more challenging to identify therapists you might want to work with. Perhaps the closest thing to…
I’m Not Suicidal. Should I Still Consider Inpatient Treatment for DID?
If you are not suicidal a general inpatient program may not be appropriate for you. These programs may have little idea how to help you specifically. Often, these inpatient programs…
Why Don’t I Know What I Want or Need?
You may have grown up in an environment where having your own opinions or wants led to harm or criticism. If so, you likely learned that adopting the opinions and…
Why Do I Always Doubt Myself?
Self-doubt can feel constant when you grew up in environments where your perceptions, emotions, memories, or opinions were regularly dismissed, criticized, ignored, or punished. Over time, many people learn to…