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Originally Posted by DespondentDaisy
Ok, so I've posted in the past a couple of times about possibly having DID. Well, after cleaning up my act (check my posting on the addictions page) and becoming re-intuned with myself, I've realized that perhaps this is more of my real issue that causes anxiety or depression occasionally on my part, I was just reading Coper's post and couldn't help but identify a bit with the person he was talking about interms of doing things sometimes and not knowing why. For instance, I'll have a voice/vocal thought in my head of something to say and lately I've started to say these ideas. Usually their outlandsishly funny/off the wall comments that aren't taken negatively or anything by others around me. I don't think it's the same as hearing voices, but then again, I'm not too sure.
Another thought, that I mentioned briefly in my latest post (addictions) was how now that I'm sober, I'm having more instances of feeling not quite connected at times. I remember having those moment more before when I was younger, beforeI began experimenting with drugs in college. Other times my brain will seemingly shut down for a few seconds in mid sentence, causing me to feel like an idiot, but maybe that happens to more people than not who knows Anyways, I'm a bit distracted at the moment, I lost my train of thought, I guess I'll end with asking if any of this resonates with people here that suffer from DID or is this more similar to schizophrenia?
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Dear Desondent Daisy,
I am absolutely no expert on DID...but there is a wonderful article here at PC that I thought discusses some of the different forms of dissociation and drug use and misdiagnosis and some of the things that you touched on...It is written by a Dr. Marlene Steinberg who has done extensive research on Dissociative Disorders...the link is:
http://psychcentral.com/lib/2008/in-...sorders/all/1/
I think you just might find it to be a little helpful and also helpful when talking to your pdoc. I did when I was talking to mine. He's now doing more research into what I was specifically talking about in my paper to him...
I just hope this might help a little...it's a pretty in depth article..good luck to you.
Take care!
Wysteria Blue