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Mar 20, 2013, 05:08 PM
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Member Since: Mar 2013
Location: USA
Posts: 1,486
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Originally Posted by Confusedinomicon
I used to disassociate a lot when I was younger. Apparently Id have conversations with people and never remember any of it. I spent my childhood engrossed in a fantasy world I made up online. Also get blind rage, too.
I think you can have both because DID is generally associated with some kind of abuse/trauma and bipolar is not. (There is plenty of PTSD/bipolar comorbodity too)
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I think they're really two very different experiences (which doesn't mean they can't co-occur). I do become a completely different person when manic in so many ways, but then again, however different I am, it is still, on some level, part of my 'self.' Or that's how I choose to think about it, maybe to some extent it depends on how one perceives these things, on a personal level.
I think people can also have very different aspects of the self (there are some interesting articles on 'self-states') that aren't exactly separate people, per se. I don't understand DID very well, so I'm probably not much help. I would be interested in knowing the difference between self-states and alters, but that would be for a different thread and probably a different forum. In general I'd say I don't think a characteristic of bipolar disorder is splitting into different alters.
I don't know though, it would be interesting to discuss psychosis as a manifestation of a kind of different/separate self... Interesting stuff.
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