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Jul 16, 2012, 07:10 PM
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Member Since: Jul 2012
Location: Queensland
Posts: 91
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Originally Posted by PurpleFlyingMonkeys
LouR, I am so sorry you are going through so much. I was diagnosed 10 years ago and am still confused as heck about what I have and STILL go back and forth in my denial stages. As much as I want to deny it, as much as I think "that can't be me!" when I look at my life from the outside, it very much explains many many many things about my life. It's just so incredibly unique that it doesn't seem real to me at times.
But it is real, and denial is even a part of the diagnosis. As amandalouise pointed out, and as I have only recently become to learn, parts can have mental illnesses that the other parts do not share. The same can even go for physical illnesses. One part could require glasses to be able to see, but when another part comes out the vision is sharp and perfect. Same thing goes for many illnesses both physical and mental.
I'm only now starting to learn of illnesses that my parts have that we do not all share. According to past posts and past doctors visits, I have a part (and according to my t) that is schizophrenic. Also a part that has manic depression. The doctors couldn't fathom how I could have both bipolar and schizophrenia (while they did not happen at the same time) until it was learned of my DID and only until meeting with my current mental health team did I learn that it was because of these parts that I have been given some of the diagnosis that I have had.
I have been through much of the paranoia dillusions and more as you have, yet when that is over, I don't remember ever feeling that way at all, and if I do it's only a vague rememberance of feeling that way.
Research online is good, just don't believe everything you read online. And certainly not everything you see on tv, read in books or hear in the news. Remember they exaggerate or tell the most extreme cases to sell. But also remember that every case is different, no two minds are the same so certainly no two systems with multiple parts are the same.
Take care of yourself, you were given a name for the diagnosis but it doesn't change the fact that you have had this long before the name, you are still the same person, you just have a name to describe what has been happening to you within your system.
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Thank you purple flying monkeys
I thank for your comment and I feel that way alot thank you for your sympathy.
Kind regards Lou
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