Hi yellowted,
The answer to your question is "no", not everyone who dissociates has alters.
Everyone in life dissociates. When you are reading a good book and find yourself hours later realizing all that time has passed and you didn't realize it, that is dissociating. When you look out the window and daydream, that is also dissociating. When you are driving from point a to point b and you don't remember some of the drive, that too is dissociating. But, that doesn't mean that everyone who does this has alters.....do you get what I mean?
I did some reading on your disorder and I did not see anything that suggests that someone with your dx has alters. (not to say that it couldn't happen I suppose)
I found this explanation the easiest to understand -
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This patient confronts an acute stressor that creates a psychic conflict, and the physical symptom(s) serve as the resolution for the conflict. The patient may repress the stressor or be unaware of its impact. This disorder may occur at any age, either gender, any personality. A conversion disorder is characterized by the loss of a bodily function, for example blindness , paralysis, or the inability to speak . The loss of physical function is involuntary, but diagnostic testing does not show a physical cause for the dysfunction.
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Has anyone on your team (dr, aide, therapist) explained to you about conversion disorders? Is it possible that the reason you are not getting help to adapt your living space is that through therapy, they hope you will progress to the point of not having the physical issues you are now suffering from anymore? Of course I have no real idea what they are thinking, but I might be on the right track. It may be worth it to ask them if that is why they are not helping you with adaptations to your flat etc.
I wish you well!
_sabby_