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Originally Posted by DancingAlone
why would it be DID if....
1) i don't hear a lot of the time what people are saying to me (and not hard of hearing)
2) watching myself as if out of my body, or standing "next to myself"
3) looking in the mirror and not knowing that is "me" (always have done that, finally quit wearing makeup it spooks me so, and keep a perm all the time--critical--so can just comb and go)
4) feeling that others, the world, objects aren't real
5) feeling like my body doesn't belong to me
6) remembering past events so clearly it's like reliving them (good ones too)
7) wondering if things really happened or if i dreamed them
8) being in a familiar place but feeling it is strange or unfamiliar
9) so absorbed in a movie or tv that unaware of events going on around me
10) so involved in a fantasy or daydream it's like it's really happening
11) sometimes able to ignore pain
12) stare off into space and unaware of the time passing
13) act so differently in different situations feels like "two" people
14) able to do certain things with ease that would normally be difficult
15) feel like living in a fog and things/people seem far away or unclear
two or three of these seem obvious, but the others? why, why, why would they be DID???? for instance, i had foot surgery once. right after the surgery i was *standing* brushing my teeth! the doc came in and yelled at me to lie back down and i said: "why, it doesn't hurt". he looked at me very puzzled.
see? i remember these things! it was "just me" standing there wasn't it???
and staring off, causing loss of time, that's just "zoning out" isn't it???
acting differently at different situations...why DID???
and sometimes i do things that amaze me in having the ability, but then it strangely "recedes" into the background. ???
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First take a breather just because the DES says you got so many out of 100 does "Not" mean you have DID. that DES on line isnt actually the one that is given now. I compared the test I took last month to the one on line. the new DES is different and has different test questions to reflect todays standards, knowledge of the disorder.
Plus the DES doesnt just test for DID. it also tests for "all" the other dissociative disorders too. then when a computer scores it, and in conjunction with meeting with a psychiatrist or psychologist for an interview, interview test and other tests a psychiatrist can tell you which Dissociative disorder you have.
Example
these things you listed fit other Dissociative disorders too like derealization, depersonalization, dissociative amnesia, dissociative fugue,
Some of what you posted fits the type of dissociation that people with depression, bipolor and PTSd have.
Some of what you posted fits the normal dissociation that everyone has at one time or another.
Some of what you posted could be from all kinds of medical problems like dehydration, sleep deprivation, anemia and many more things.
the only way to know for sure what kind of dissociation you have and what caused/causing it is to see your medical doctor to rule out medical problems and then see a psychiatrist or psychologist and go through their tests.
Each situation is different. the hows and whys all those things add up to being DID for me would be different than for me. for example my abuser did ba da bing ba da bang and your abuser if you were may not have done the bang but not the ba da bing.
the whys and hows those things add up to DID is different for everyone with DID.
suggest -when you see your new pdoc ask for testing and ask them your whys. then you will know the answers to all your whys and hows based on how they pertain to whats going on with you.
