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Originally Posted by Tigressnred
Omg! I googled that and guess what? So me!.....including the mixture of PTSD. Now I feel like crap though because I am once again in limbo. Not DID....which is recognized...God I hope this does not mean I have no place here!!......
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oh please dont do that to yourself... anyone can read about mental disorders or physical problems and see their self within them. it takes more than what you read about to have a mental disorder. example having parts of your self can be normal or it can be a part of having schizophrenia, identity crisis, delusions, hallucinations, depression with psychotic features, psychosis... and many other problems.
in your first post you stated
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Originally Posted by Tigressnred
The thing is this is NOT MPD, or DID as I do not blackout or anything like that when the personalities switch. My T says based on the way I grew up, I just see the differences more distinctly than most people
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go with what ever you treatment providers say it is. they are the ones that are qualified to make the diagnosis.
some added info here where I live and work DDNOS does not include having two or more alternate personalities. that would be DID. here DDNOS is anything that does "not" fit the diagnostics for the other dissociative disorders...
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having only one alter would fit DDNOS because it "does not" fit the diagnostic criteria for having alters - having two or more that is the alternate personality requirement with DID.
DDNOS can have alters they just cant fit the alters criteria for DID.
if you were here in NY - the memory problems that come with DID that the diagnostics are talking about is different than what the poster has.
here in NY being aware of whats going on when the alters are in control is called - co consciousness.
the DID diagnostic criteria for having memory problems beyond that of normal people is different than having or not having co consciousness. its due to trauma or the event being too much for the person to handle the memory of it is held by an alter. example it used to be too traumatic for me to go to a movie theater because of the darkness. (I was abused in an abandon mine shaft.) any time I went to a movie I would switch into another alter that could handle movie theaters. I gained back the memories of the abuse, movie theater and going to the movies during therapy and after integration of the alters that did those things.
when diagnosing mental disorders they look at each diagnostic criteria to see if you fit the criteria.
this may be changing soon depending upon the revisions in the proposed but not yet finalized diagnostic criteria for dissociative disorders in the DSM 5, and other locations may believe differently..
but seeing your treatment provider has already told you this is just because you see things more distinctly than others not a dissociative disorder, go with what they say.