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Originally Posted by GypsyRosalie
Hi everyone. I was wondering I guess how common it is to suffer from DID along with other things. From my understanding, Alex has Borderline Personality Disorder with SI issues as diagnosed, and she told Shanna that, who regularly communicates with me.
I guess I just don't get if that is normal... If I were to ever integrate with Alex, would I then also have her BPD? Does it work like that for anyone else that one of their alters has a problem that the core or other alters don't deal with?
Alex also suffers from a smoking addiction which is causing me problems with running and financial issues.
Don't have to comment, just kinda venting... Idk.
Cas
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I dont know about actual documented statistic about the commonality of DID and other medical and mental disorders..
but when you think about what it takes for a person to become DID - extreme trauma before the age of 5, Take me for example...
I became DID because I was emotionally, sexually and physically abused before the age of 5.
those factors each taken separately come with their own physical and mental health problems
example someone who is emotionally abused at a young age is going to have PTSD, Anxiety problems, depending upon what the focal point of the emotional abuse they could have eating disorders, phobias, low self esteme, suicidal, self injure, form distorted /misconceptions of their world and those around them, have trust issues and other issues that result in rocky relationships...right there you have someone who has Borderline Personality disorder, PTSD, Panic/anxiety disorders, eating disorders..
add that to all the components that someone who has been sexually abused, and all the components of someone that has been physically abused...
in my opinion its very common for someone with DID to have multiple medical and mental health diagnosis/symptoms/ problems.
will you have to deal with all the issues/problems and diagnosis that your alters have? we cant answer that, only you and your treatment providers can answer whats going to happen for you when/if you integrate your alters..
what I can tell you is what happened when I integrated...yes everything that was my alters became part of me.. their good qualities, their bad qualities, their good behaviors, their bad behaviors, their good or bad habits, ...their whole way of being diagnosis health issues... all became merged with me to form one whole person again. which is why I came here 2 plus yrs ago to psych central looking for people who were dealing with integration and post integration issues.. its not easy dealing with all that by your self.
suggestion talk with your treatment providers they can talk with you about the type of internal system you have and what to expect as you go through integration and be there for you as you go through post integration issues like this.