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Originally Posted by Luce
As it stands the information about the changing understandings of DID and the critique of the DSM-IV and V diagnostic criteria for DID are very relevant to this thread and Lydia's original question. Lydia, in the past it was believed pretty much everywhere that a person with DID had a 'core' or 'original' first-born personality, but these ideas are now changing. As more is learned and understood about the nature of dissociation and the neurobiological development of DID the perception is shifting from one of a host personality 'afflicted' with alters to that of one unintegrated personality made up of discrete states - all of which 'belong' to the 'original' person and none of which has claim to singular ownership of the body.
To sum up: Your experience of not having a single 'host' self fits in perfectly with current theory and the impending proposed changes to the diagnostic criteria.  |
thank you for clarifying those points.. it wasnt my intent to discredit you and what you, your location and such believe as current info.. I was stating what I found online about it, what was talked about during a recent seminar on mental disorders I attended, and my experience in college psych classes. it wasnt meant as a discredit against you and what you believe or what ISSD puts out. I thought my statement about other locations and such may believe differently was clear enough to show I wasnt trying to discredit anything just adding the other side of the coin so those reading had both sides of that theory.
Im the type of person that likes to know both the pros and cons about therapy approaches and I know others do as well, when I find something that interests me I look at both sides of it. Not just one or the other.. that way I have the whole picture of that therapy approach.
again Im sorry that you took my post as being my trying to discredit you and what you believe, it was not my intent.
I would also like to say sorry lydia if this has detracted from what you were looking for.