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Originally Posted by greylove
WLFTW......could you tell me what D.I.D. stands for? I'm still learning my terminology but don't think I've seen this. Also, I think I'll look up shizoaffective disorder. That hasn't been included in my Bipolar 1 diagnosis, but I've seen mention of it somewhere before......now I'm starting to wonder.......
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Hi greylove
DID is dissociative identity disorder which is the relatively new name for multiple personality disorder.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissoci...ntity_disorder
You might have heard of a movie called Sybil which came out in 1976 which, to a degree, popularized this condition:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075296/
The causes for lots of disorders aren't precisely known but it seems that extreme trauma and abuse is a strong correlating factor in causing DID. As far as I know, at least.
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Originally Posted by WLFTW
I've been hospitalized several times and often I have blackouts during my stays. I'm not sure if I have a mild case of D.I.D. or if the blackouts were due to haldol injections or what (no street drugs were involved).
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My blackouts could also have been fugue states.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugue_state
I've had a few diagnoses. The two most recent seem identical to me:
bipolar disorder with psychotic features
(current) schizoaffective disorder with bipolar features
My doctor tried to simplify it for me since the descriptions of those two are very similar. In bipolar disorder, it is common to find psychosis during manic episodes. However, when not having an episode (depressed or manic), someone diagnosed with bipolar disorder does not exhibit signs of psychosis. What's different about schizoaffective disorder is that there is psychosis when not having an episode.
It appears to me that schizoaffective disorder is a mix between schizophrenia and bipolar disorder though that's not something my doctor told me.
Winston