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Originally Posted by PurpleFlyingMonkeys
From what research I have done, typical ages for those who develop DID are between the ages of 4 and 6 when the initial split happens, that as you age it becomes nearly impossible to split (unless you already have before), if possible at all. I'm pretty sure the criteria does say that you have to be of a certain age, and last I saw it was 4-6 but that was some odd years ago and the criteria changes every year it seems.
Anyways, I'm not a t at all obviously, with my messed up own mind, but do you have a t you can share these concerns with?
If you have DID and it seems that you changed after the accident it could be similar to what my t says happens with me. My system is very guarded. When things seem to be in order, going smoothly, I'm 100% normal and functioning on my own. But when things go out of whack, so does my system and I switch more frequently. Unfortunately in my case the dissociating happens more than not dissociating episodes but at least I get ocassional breaks in between right?
Anyways, I was in a gnarly accident a couple of years ago that caused PTSD and since the accident my dissociation has gotten much more extreme. Although in between the difficult times, I would have a couple of months out of the year when life calmed and I felt "normal" it's been at its peak since the accident. Although I've had many traumatic events since the accident, but what's new with life right?
So t says that since my system is so guarded and I'm apparently this "gate keeper" that basically keeps the peace, that when things are going smoothly everyone backs off, but when things get bad, when my feelings get distorted, my parts want to come out to take what they think I can't handle.
So what I'm getting at basically is if you have DID (have you been diagnosed with it? I can't remember right now sorry, it's been a long day/week/month/year) perhaps the reason it's becoming much more noticeable now, many more episodes, is perhaps the mental AND physical trauma you experienced during the accident triggered the parts?
But again I'm no doctor, I've just seen a lot of them lol.
If you have a t I would really recommend bringing this up with him, he can help shed some light on the topic.
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Originally Posted by PurpleFlyingMonkeys
I'm pretty sure the criteria does say that you have to be of a certain age,
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No there is no diagnostic criteria that says a person has to be a certain age. you can find the diagnostic criteria for DID on the DSM 5 website site.
it is just a documented situation where in "studies" ***most if not all ****cases of DID in the United States that have been documented have had the similarity that they have had extreme trauma before the age of 5. kind of like saying 95 out of 100 dentists prefer crest tooth paste. it doesnt mean its a hard fact or criteria. just that someone somewhere decided to put together demographics that fit their parameters being used for the study or thesis paper. who's to say those people who have done these "studies" and thesis papers didnt weed out those with DID that were older than what those studies say because that wasnt their focus point.
Im sure if we looked around hard enough we will find others who seem to have DID that split at other ages then what all those studies and thesis papers say. in fact there is a client here at the crisis center where I live and work who has been diagnosed DID and to date she was 10 yrs old when she became DID. its rare for this kind of thing to happen but apparently in this case it did.
here in NY USA we typically go according to the Diagnostic criteria as stated on the DSM 5 website which lists the diagnostics for both the present standards and the soon to be incoming diagnostics, and we keep in mind the ***theory*** that the first split probably happened before the age of 5,, but we recognize it may have happened after that too, because the diagnostic criteria does not have age limits in it.