no need to panic.. DID is ****not **** being removed from the DSM5.. the lnk you posted is to a public website that any Jo or John doe makes on the internet.. I have seen this website before and that page you posted the link to (Ivory Gardens) has been up on the internet for years just like other survivors over the years have made websites about their own mental health issues, healing/recovery.

furthermore when reading that Ivory Gardens page it does have a link with in the page that will take you to the DSM5 page the APA has up on the internet...these pages on the DSM5 website have been going through many many different revisions, additions, updates for the past two-three years now. If they were going to remove DID from the DSM they wouldnt have spent the past yr-3 yrs revising the diagnostic criteria for it. plus the DSM5 update page does not include any recent changes or words that include dissociative disorders..

there is no mention at all about any of the dissociative disorders being removed from the DSM5. the most recent changes on the site are:

taken from the DSM5updating page at http://www.dsm5.org/Pages/Default.aspx

What’s New?
What specifically has changed on this site over the past year? Visitors may notice differences in the ways in which some proposed disorders are classified. Below are some of the changes.
Based on concerns about the reliability of the proposed Attenuated Psychosis Syndrome and Mixed Anxiety Depressive Disorder in the field trials, these two conditions are being recommended for further study in Section III, an area of DSM-5 for conditions that require further research before consideration as formal disorders.
We also added a footnote to the Major Depressive Disorder criteria to clarify the difference between normal bereavement associated with a significant loss and a diagnosis of a mental disorder. Many commentators noted the previous criteria erroneously implied that bereavement could be assumed to only last 2 months and we wanted to correct that misunderstanding and provide more information on how bereavement and other loss reactions differ from Major Depressive Disorder. The extensive public comment also highlighted the need to clarify that use of a checklist of the diagnostic criteria by people without clinical training is insufficient to make a clinical diagnosis.
Among the other significant changes in this posting is a more extensive Personality Disorders rationale for change with the reliability of dimensional measures and the categorical diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder now supported by Field Trial data. However, additional data analysis in this area is ongoing.
Diagnostic criteria for Pedophilic Disorder have been modified. The adjusted boundaries of this disorder are based more on biological developmental indicators of early puberty in victims to avoid implications that the disorder involves post-pubertal adolescent victims and to make the criteria consistent with the International Classification of Diseases.
Communication Disorders now include two diagnoses – Language Disorders and Speech Disorders – each with appropriate subtypes to cover all seven of the disorders previously proposed for categorization here.
Similarly, based on clinical feedback and the field trial documentation that Simple Somatic Symptom Disorder was a milder form of Complex Somatic Symptom Disorder, the two have now been combined as a single disorder: Somatic Symptom Disorder.
The diagnosis of Suicidal Behavioral Disorder is a newly proposed disorder that is intended to complement the previous proposal for Non-Suicidal Self Injury Disorder. The latter disorder was tested in the Field Trials with highly variable levels of reliability—final decisions about its placement in Section III for further study have not been made. Another disorder suggested for placement in Section III includes Persistent Complex Bereavement Disorder which has had conflicting disorder criteria proposed from previous studies of this condition. The Work Group has suggested a new criteria set that builds on previous research prior to full endorsement of this condition.

Readers will also notice changes in specific criteria for some of the disorders, including those in the Neurocognitive Disorders and the Anxiety Disorders chapters. Finally, we have also now included a proposed Cultural Formulation Interview for DSM-5, which also includes some specific questions for visitors to consider in thinking about how the manual can help clinicians more effectively assess cultural aspects of psychiatric diagnosis.


you can follow all the changes being made to the ***proposed***diagnostics and mental disorders that will be in the DSM5 http://www.dsm5.org/Pages/Default.aspx

if any mental disorders are to be changed or removed you will see it on the DSM5 website..