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Originally Posted by Ash0198
Hey guys,
My psychologist just suggested to me early this week that she thinks I might have DID....but I'm not too sure. The only thing I can think of as a symptom are the spirit beings in my head that talk to me all the time. Could these be alters instead? She says she's seen them come out. But I dunno my psychiatrist and psychologist are still not sure if its psychosis or dissacosiation. I don't have memory loss although my short term memory loss is appalling but I thinks it's the meds not me....and I don't black out or anything like that.
But I do have periods where I really really do not feel myself like I find it hard to recognise my own self in the mirror which scares me so much. Nothing feels real...only the being in my head feel real to me.
So my question is how did u guys first figure out there was something wrong? Or if others picked up on ur mood switches?? I just don't know....it's all confusing the crap out of me. Also....do things get worse over time???
Thanks a lot for reading
Ash
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Im sorry we cant tell you whether your spirit beings in your head are alters or psychosis. only your therapist and psychiatrist can tell you that..
there are ways to tell the difference between the two but only those that are your therapist and psychiatrist can do the tests to find those differences and then tell you what is going on inside of you...
my suggestion keep working with your treatment providers, and with their help things will become more clearer to you and your treatment providers which is which.
your other questions how did I figure out something was wrong?
therapy, testing and medications.
sure people picked up on my mood switching but they just thought I was a moody person...
see one thing you need to know DID isnt like suddenly becoming depressed, or angry and people notice these mood switching...
a person with DID has been that way since they were younger than 5 yrs old.. that means that every time they switched into an alter no body noticed anything wrong because they have been doing this all their life...
example when I switched into an angry alter as a teen or adult it didnt grab my mothers attention because I have been switching into that angry alter since the terrible two's when kids normally do throw temper tantrums, get angry, yell and sometimes kick scream and what have you. its normal for a child under 5 to be angry one second , happy the next, crying the next. the same with puberty and pre puberty yrs...its normal for kids to be moody and switch moods so to my mother who sees me every single day from the moment I was born to the day I moved out to go to college it didnt ring any bells and whistles that said hey mom Im an alter named red, hey mom Im an alter named Rainy...DID doesnt work that way and neither does being an alter.
the only way to be sure that you have DID is through diagnostic testing. there is a full gauntlet of tests that have to be done now and even more once the new DSM 5 comes out in may. if you really want to know just ask your psychiatrist for diagnostic evaluations for dissociative disorder. after you go through all the tests and rule out all the different medical and mental things that share the same symptoms that you are having. your treatment providers will be able to tell you which you have...DID or psychosis.