yes pych central is a place where you can talk about things...you are not doing anything wrong....

maybe what will help you is to know what psych central is for....

everyone gets to post what ever they like and how ever they like...

sometimes that comes in the form of people posting about a problem
sometimes that comes in the form of people replying to a problem.
sometimes that comes in the form of people playing games, telling jokes, discussing general society issues....

it all depends on which forum you are in..

the replies you get from people are going to be things like...

letting you know when someone has gone through the same thing you have/are going through.

letting you know what your problem is called in the person who is replying's location, culture,...

letting you know what the person replying did to fix that problem

letting you know what the treatment providers of the person replying did to help the person replying to you.

letting you know your post has been read

some people are comfortable replying by giving a "hug" or "thanks"

and we can reply by making suggestions, but only you can decide what to do about your problem.

the one thing we do not do here is tell each other what their problems are...and we dont tell each other what another members diagnosis is....

that means we can not tell you things like ....your problem is psychosis... or ...your problem is DID....l or your problem is depression..... we have to leave it up to you to tell us what your problem and diagnosis is...

I cant tell you whether you are psychotic, whether you are DID, whether you have more than one alter... that kinds of stuff.

I can tell you whether what you posted is called psychotic or DID here where I live and work.

I can tell you what the standard requirements for having DID is here in america (the USA)

I can make general suggestions (I cant perform therapy here on Psych central)

I can give you my ....personal....opinion of things you post. Which is what I did. theres a difference between giving a personal opinion (what I think about what you posted) vs giving you a professional opinion (diagnosing the problem and performing my job of being a therapist here)

what I did in my reply to you was my standard way of replying to someone...

I gave you the information that we cant diagnose your problem...

I gave you the information about psychosis and DID, that you would find about DID and psychosis if you had googled those two terms...theres a lot more to those two terms then what you can find online but Im not able to go into those kinds of things because that would be performing my job as a therapist which isnt allowed here.

almost all of my posts contain the suggestion of contacting your own treatment providers for a couple reasons....this website isnt supposed to be a replacement for therapy and what our own doctors, therapists tell us. which is what the disclaimer at the bottom of the page in bold black letters says. and the second because I am a therapist and am open to letting people know that (its in my profile) so I dont want people to misunderstand me and my posts to mean things like I know whats best for them, am trying to perform my job here and other things...the best person to discuss problems is your real time treatment providers...psych central doesnt take the place of that..

if you google the words ...what is psychosis you will find the same information I gave you on that term, and if you google the term what is Dissociative Identity Disorder you will find the same information that is in my post to you on that....

the only difference is that I did not list the whole diagnostic criteria for them...diagnostic criteria is what doctors, psychiatrists look for to see if a person is psychotic or DID.