With DID my diagnosis is kinda hard to miss Gotta know it to treat it effectively I think. I'm glad she is involved in getting to know about it because it can be really hard to treat.

For my clients, I'm not big on diagnosis, only do it cause I have to for insurance. I tend to do very "low level" diagnosis (depressive disorder nos, anxiety disorder nos, adjustment disorder). I usually use diagnostic information to dispute what parents feel their child has. Most often they feel their child has bipolar. The way I was trained, you do NOT diagnose bipolar until 18, and I stick to that unless there is very apparent evidence to the contrary. So I often use my "lower level" diagnosis to talk with parents instead of them self diagnosing their kid because bipolar is the "fad diagnosis" now.