The reason I mentioned the testing is because in your post you said nothing about being tested -

"my friend is convinced i have DID. i have no idea what i have."

Now you are saying you have been tested. Since you have been tested you have what you need to make your life better for yourself if you really want it.

A great place to start if you want to start by taking care of some things on your own is your test results. you should have recieved a copy of the Comprehensive Psychological Evaluation. In there you will see the number that you are on the dissociative disorders scale. and recommendations for clients with that number. Actually you will find alot besides this in that report that can help you help yourself.

you will find what you said during the interview part and the problems the psychiatrist noticed and what problems you told him about and the names of the tests used and your results of those tests and the psychiatrists views on what you said and how you appeared during the testing and his recommendations for treatment plans.

Suicide is not a part of the criteria and symptoms of DID so you will see a different diagnosis besides DID on your multiaxil chart and it will have some numbers that correspond with things in the DSM IV TR.

For example (not my acual report)

Axis I: DID, 9 , PTSD, Chronic (DSM - IV 123.45)

Axis II: Personality Disorder with Borderline, Histerionic and OCD, Schizotypal features (DSM -IV 123.45)

Axis III: Sickle Cell Anemia, Blind

Axis IV limited income, husband recently deceased, limited support network

Axis V: GAF 50

Once you have your report in your hand you have all you need to make up your own therapy plan by researching and locating resorses in your community.

For example if the report says you have depression call around to crisis ceenters and therapy agencies and ask if there is a depression management class somewhere you can register for. If your report says he noticed you have an anger problem locate an anger management class, and so on. most communities now have crisis centers that run all kinds of groups both therapy based and support based on all kinds of topics.

By doing this not only will you be making yourself a custom made therapy program to meet your needs but you will also be able to get to know other people in the real world that have the same problems that you have so you wont feel so alone.

A person does not nessesarily need to be in therapy to take care of their problems. All you need is the wanting to change and have a better life and then set out to change what you are having problems with. A A therapist cant fix people. they can be there as a tool - someone to talk to , Somewhere safe you can talk about things, they can suggest ideas and resourses. But the actual therapy work is the client actually doing things to change and make their life better. And a person can change themselves and apply solutions with or without a therapist.

Take care.