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Had a psychiatrist appointment to find out more about dissociation etc.
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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 591567" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>Terry: If I understood correctly dissociation is not only a spectrum, but to be able to dissociate you have to have some kind of ability to that. Most people have, very few don't have it at all (can't for example be hypnotised) and some have high ability. And then if person has traumatic experience, those with high ability to dissociation just tend to use that as a coping mechanism. And in some ways it can be very useful and can prevent self-destruction. But when it gets chronic, it is bothersome. Imaginary friends in childhood are one of the signs that person likely has high dissociative ability. Or something like that.</p><p></p><p>When younger, difficult child did make some rather cool comics. He seems to have inherited some artistic ability from my dad (who is professional artist and good enough that he has managed to keep himself in booze and bedmates for well over forty years by now. Especially the first one is not a small achievement.) difficult child's artistic talents are more in the visual side of things, but also the story lines in those comics were wild and interesting ones. Now difficult child is a good drawer but mostly his eye for things comes out in photos he takes. But he is not passionate enough with any of it to make anything out of it. My easy child is the one who has ability to write, but he too lacks the passion for it. You can see his talent from just his school works, but without passion he of course will never make anything more out of it (or at most maybe career in advertising or something like that.) Both of them have firmly decided to be stupid, uncultured jocks instead of delving into their artistic gifts <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>Trying to get info out from doctors is always frustrating. In some ways I do get it. They know that often people take anything they say too seriously and if they can't give definite answers, they would rather not give any. But we for example made it very clear that we do understand that this psychiatrist can not say anything sure about our son she has never even met, but we would like to hear a little bit about what we should be prepared for, what are likely scenarios and what are less likely. After quite a lot of prying we did get useful info out of her so it was money well spent. Inside info of possible service providers is well worth it to us and especially husband is much less freaked about it after an appointment. For him knowing that difficult child is not likely to become 'permanently crazy' is a big thing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 591567, member: 14557"] Terry: If I understood correctly dissociation is not only a spectrum, but to be able to dissociate you have to have some kind of ability to that. Most people have, very few don't have it at all (can't for example be hypnotised) and some have high ability. And then if person has traumatic experience, those with high ability to dissociation just tend to use that as a coping mechanism. And in some ways it can be very useful and can prevent self-destruction. But when it gets chronic, it is bothersome. Imaginary friends in childhood are one of the signs that person likely has high dissociative ability. Or something like that. When younger, difficult child did make some rather cool comics. He seems to have inherited some artistic ability from my dad (who is professional artist and good enough that he has managed to keep himself in booze and bedmates for well over forty years by now. Especially the first one is not a small achievement.) difficult child's artistic talents are more in the visual side of things, but also the story lines in those comics were wild and interesting ones. Now difficult child is a good drawer but mostly his eye for things comes out in photos he takes. But he is not passionate enough with any of it to make anything out of it. My easy child is the one who has ability to write, but he too lacks the passion for it. You can see his talent from just his school works, but without passion he of course will never make anything more out of it (or at most maybe career in advertising or something like that.) Both of them have firmly decided to be stupid, uncultured jocks instead of delving into their artistic gifts :winking: Trying to get info out from doctors is always frustrating. In some ways I do get it. They know that often people take anything they say too seriously and if they can't give definite answers, they would rather not give any. But we for example made it very clear that we do understand that this psychiatrist can not say anything sure about our son she has never even met, but we would like to hear a little bit about what we should be prepared for, what are likely scenarios and what are less likely. After quite a lot of prying we did get useful info out of her so it was money well spent. Inside info of possible service providers is well worth it to us and especially husband is much less freaked about it after an appointment. For him knowing that difficult child is not likely to become 'permanently crazy' is a big thing. [/QUOTE]
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