CBT and DID...my experience

[Cammy]

Just for some closure on this thread...I went back and got up to the seven week mark in the CBT course (out of 8 wk total). Things really deteriorated, not just for me internally, but in the way I ended up be treated by them. I'm not saying don't try it, because it may help someone else with their particular issues, but for me it was pretty disastrous. I started the course with moderate anxiety and depression indexes, and ended up with maximum depression and severe anxiety indexes. It's supposed to work the other way around. What did I find was the problem? Well..the course is probably okay for mild to moderate more superficial issues that can be altered by changing your thinking and behavior patterns. Deeper stuff does not only not get helped, but gets good and stirred up. Plus, things trigger the different parts of us so that we are responding to the course throughout from multiple rotating viewpoints. It wasn't designed for this. So, that's that. I had to leave at seven weeks because all available damage control crews are already engaged and busy doing mop up work. I had no more internal resources to devote to any more hurts and owies that kept being inflicted by people who don't seem overly sure of what they're doing at times. That's my final report on this. Over and out!