Psychologist Wannabe

Gaslighting

Trigger alert!

Gaslighting is never okay! Trust yourself always 💪🏻

I have this core belief that people are doing their best with what they have.

Always remember that there’s more going on in the inside than you see on the outside.

Psychoanalysis is a dialectic, what Montaigne, in book III, chapter VIII, calls an art of conversation. The art of conversation of Socrates in the Meno is to teach the slave to give his own speech its true meaning. And it is the same in Hegel. In other words, the position of the analyst must be that of an ignorantia docta [learned ignorance, scientific ignorance], which does not mean knowing [savante], but… what is capable of being formative for the subject…. If the psychoanalyst thinks he knows something, in psychology for example, then that is already the beginning of his loss, for the simple reason that in psychology nobody knows much, except that psychology is itself an error of perspective on the human being.

made an infographic right quick.

“it’s so rare you can’t have it, almost no one has it, therefore you are lying/faking/must have something else” and that’s a really harmful viewpoint 

I understand what “rare” in the statistical sense means, but the idea that it’s so rare that no singleton/singlet has met anyone with DID is statistically wrong and harmful , (statistically, 1-3 out of 100 people has DID, yes?) and helps no one. 

When a 1 minute search tells you that according to wikipedia “There is no single, widely accepted definition for rare diseases” but this is how they are defined in some places:

In the USA a disease is considered rare if it affects: about 1 in 1,500 people

In Japan: 1 in 2,500 people

In the EU: fewer than 1 in 2,000 people

The definitions used in the medical literature and by national health plans are similarly divided, with definitions ranging from 1/1,000 to 1/200,000.[4]

NO ONE calls a disease/medical condition “rare” if it affects at the very least 1% of the population, probably 3% or 5%, which is 1 in 100 or (if including OSDD-2) 1 in 20! That is not rare!

(Almost) everyone probably knows at the very least one person with DID.

A lot of people who have chronic illnesses don’t realize they have chronic illnesses because they honestly don’t realize that it’s not normal to be tired all the time or have headaches every day or have debilitating menstrual cramps or have lots of tummy/potty problems. Or if they don’t think it’s normal, they think it’s their fault, that they’re not taking good enough care of themselves or their just lazy or whatever. It doesn’t even occur to most people to mention a lot of these things to their doctors because they’ve just always been there. And we don’t mention them to our friends and family because it’s not normal to talk about our bodies.

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