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Originally Posted by yellowted
its worth talking to your doc about it, i definitely would mention it in your ESA as the more you can put in as to your inability to work the better chance you will have, especially if you later mention it to your doc and get a definite dx, they may wonder why you didn't mention it in your application/assessment.
dissociation can really screw your emotions, it has taken me 3 years to master just about holding it together in public, though i still do not manage it when i get tired, hungry or have to really concentrate! (lost it in the supermarket today, impatient idiots expecting me to move my mobility scooter out of the queue i had been in for an hour at the checkouts so they could pass. I never have worked out why people buy six months worth of food shopping when the supermarket is only closing for one day!) sorry, thats my rant for the day!
good luck with everything and do tell your doctor.
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Thanks, yellowted. The problem with telling my doctor though is that I don't want to go in and say 'I dissociate/ I have problems with dissociation' because I am scared he will think I've just been reading up about the symptoms and pretending to have problems to help me with the ESA.
I am not exactly confident that mentioning it at the doctor will help me at all, as it is more than likely he won't know what I'm talking about because I don't think diss disorders get much mention in med school apart from the usual 'DID/ MPD does not exist' (which I was also told by a lecturer in my first year of a dual honours psychology degree last year!) so it isn't likely a doctor would know much about them, or even recognise the symptoms if/ when I tell him.