It's hard to find a doctor who really knows what dissociative disorders are. I went through dozens of psychiatrists and all I ever received was "schizophrenia", "depression" "ptsd", etc, etc. So while I would like to say "talk it over with a psychiatrist", it hurts my heart to say that's probably not very possible. Unless you go to a psychiatrist who specializes in the diagnosis. They usually go in with the attitude to "rule out" the diagnosis, and 95% of the time, they do. Regular doctors just are not educated on the dynamics of DID, at least in my experience. My current psychiatrist and I have walked through learning about it together. I'm his first DID case ever and the man's been a psychiatrist for 20 years.
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