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Originally Posted by Orangina88
My diagnoses are, Mixed dissociative disorder: amnesia, identityconfusion, derealiazation/deperso disorder.
While i was in treatment, my therapist insisted on that i shoud ask my alters if the had a name....cuz if they had names, its more likele DID, not mixed. I didnt ask them until i was out of the hospital months later, and sure enough, the had names. Not just "the angry one", but like "Ada". and so on.
Lately things gotten worse. two of my alters is very destructive.. and young. me and my boyfriend sat in the livingroom, and suddenly, (lets call her Ada) Ada comes out, starts being mean and breaks me glasses. and starts cutting MY skin.
My boyfriend think this has gotten worse the past time, and is convinced it is DID.... but i dont know... anyone who might have an idea?
My amnesia is very bad... lots of loss of time...and lots of stuff i dont remember...
Im on a waitinglist for treatment, so i didnt know where else to go.... this really breaks my heart... 3 alters by the way...
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I am sorry that your location diagnosis DID by whether your alters have names or not, that must be so hard and limiting.
here where I live and work in new york usa there is no diagnostic criteria that says alters have to have names. many of my alters did not have names so when talking about these name less alters my therapist and I just referred to them as what ever their jobs, purposes, reasons for being were, their emotion that they contained or showed. maybe until they tell you their names their self you can refer to them in this way. it wont change your locations way of diagnosing the disorder but it might make things a bit easier and less confusing for you while you wait for their names to be told to you.
one thing about treatment for DID and other dissociative disorders is that the treatment is the same regardless of what dissociative disorder you have..talking with a therapist or other treatment provider about symptoms / problems and coming up with a treatment plan that addresses those symptoms and problems. so maybe you can work with your treatment providers focusing on symptoms/ problems instead of what the diagnosis is.
my suggestion for things that are seeming to get worse is contact your treatment providers because we cant tell you what to do for you, all we can tell you is what our own treatment providers have us do when things get worse of spiral out of control.. for violent situations and doing harm to myself or others my treatment provider sends me to the hospital. if the situations havent gone into actions and are just thoughts we work our crisis /safety plan.
maybe you and your treatment providers can set up a crisis/ safety plan for you and those with in for times like when you or your alters become violent and do harm to your self or others.