SmcSenior Contributor
D.I.D....
Wanting to know if there's anyone else in this group caring for someone with D.I.D.?
We've got a family member with a very "crowded" internal world of multiple personalities. This goes along with compulsive behaviours, phobias, social anxiety, derealisation and other difficulties. The person in question sees medical and psychological practitioners regularly; it's a disorder that apparently doesn't respond to medication, and they have previously reacted badly to medications that have been trialled; I'm seeing a psychologist regularly myself to deal with the pressure and get some feedback/backup. I have a supportive husband and family, but otherwise it's hard to know how to or who to talk with about what's going on. It's an uncommon enough disorder that you have to explain an awful lot about it before a conversation can even really start, and then you run into dangerous ground regarding the privacy of the person in question.
She can apply again, so we need to find some way of helping her see what they interpreted as "not ready" and work through those things. If possible, that needs to include her finding ways of pushing through the fibromyalgia pain, preferably by learning some pain management strategies that don't involve potent and potentially addictive painkillers. Shared household tasks won't work out too well if she's randomly in "too much pain" to pull her weight, for example. I could imagine any housemate getting frustrated by that pretty quickly.
