zaynab
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ORIGINAL: tinkJH Just a comment from a girl who was in the chatroom during the "innappropiate topic". tink... to answer your comments individually... 1) no one said it was an inappropriate topic. i did not say that someone else said it was an inappropriate topic.... i myelf was asking if it was an inappropriate topic based on the response that i got when i threw it out that i have DID and asked if anyone else in the room had it...some people don't mind admitting it and i wanted to talk with those people about it... 2) no one yelled at her for comming in and starting talking about DID. not to get semantic here, but "yelling" in a chat room is determined by the use of capital letters only, as it assaults the eyes on a busy chat room screen and also averts everyone's attention to the person using the caps... so in this example, the person who spoke to me the most about this was indeed, "yelling". "However, many people, myself included and even a few who are licensed in therepy (as least I think) did not believe her and did infact believe it was an attention ploy." i have no problem if someone doesn't believe me, what would it matter to me? what made me upset was that being a new person in the room, i threw out one question and a Dom not only yelled that i was bullshitting, he kept on about it for quite some time. i decided to view this as a "challenge" instead of an insult so it would be easier for me handle communicating with a person who treats others in that rude manner. as for the people who are licensed in therapy, if they truly WERE professionals in that field, they would never make a judgement on another person's mental condition simply by a 15 minute chat on a chat room screen while the new person is being verbally attacked by another. As professionals, i would hope that they would also not state to the person claiming to be a multiple that they are making it up, as that would very damaging to a multiple who was trying to share this info with others. "She was "challenged" so to speak on the subject of DID by a few others in the chatroom who did happen to know much of the disorder/illness. She seemed to proove more then once that she knew very little on what she was talking about and the more further she went on trying to "give examples of her DID" the more she sounded like a little girl that just wanted attention. " On the contrary, what i recall is that i gave current DID information that is freely available to all to read on the internet and IS on most of the DID websites. The fact that others were denying this information showed me that they were not up to date with their information so obviously do not even read easily accessible public information on this topic, let alone "study" it, especially as a profession. as for your comment "as she went on.... the more she sounded like a little girl that just wanted attention...." Duh! FYI, an attacked multiple who gets increasingly upset may switch to a child alter.... or didn't you know that about DID? that is a basic fundamental principle of this disorder, ya know. "Most the room wrote it off as someone that has seen Identity too many times and then dropped the subject. " i have no problem with skepticism... and as a side note.... for anyone who watches that movie, alters killing themselves to become integrated is totally incorrect (as that movie portrayed), facilitating communication between the host & the alters is the correct therapy for a multiple... inner worlds (which the town was) are much bigger than that (at least mine is)... and there was something else about that movie that was incorrect but now im getting mad and forgot what i wanted to say. *laughing ""No, DID is not a illness it is a mental disorder, I am not sick I do not need a doctor or medication because I am in control" (or something.. right.)" you are quoting me and yet you add (or something...right)? that's not a quote then. what i said was DID is not a mental disease, it's a disorder. my mind is not "sick", there are no medications for DID but they do perscribe a med for anxiety which is only an effect from having DID.... and i don't remember the word "control" ever coming into the conversations at all. i'd also like to add that i did not view anyone in there as "attacking" me on this, except for one Dom, and again, i didn't mind what he was saying, only that he kept repeating on and on that i was "bullshitting" instead of saying it just once, and he refused to acknowledge almost all of my answers to his questions, he also refused to answer many of mine. treating a newcomer to the chat room in this manner, was, in my opinion.... wrong. i believe i did quite well with how i handled the situation considering the lacking social skills this person has and also that it was making me very upset as it dragged on... i ended up feeling sick for about 4 hours afterwards.
< Message edited by zaynab -- 7/20/2005 7:20:31 AM >
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