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Originally Posted by grandmaof2angels
I'm really going crazy now. Need help. I went to a therapist, a new one that has taken my case over and I fount out they changed my diagnosis. she told me that DID isnt a real diagnose. I was diagnose back in 86 finally after years of just being treated only as depression before then. I have come long way since 86 but seems since she told me this its caused a conflict inside with all of my alters. what do I do now?
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it may be that your symptoms that used to be part of the DID diagnostic criteria is now not part of that diagnosis...that is if you are in america....
treatment providers in America as switching over to a new diagnostic process for many mental disorders.
Example when my medications caused me to be dissociative this used to fit in with my dissociative diagnosis of depersonalization, derealization, DID and general dissociation.
but now because of the new diagnostics in the DSM 5 diagnostic criteria for mental disorders medication induced dissociation is no longer with in any of the dissociative disorders or as some people/treatment providers call it ...its not a real dissociation problem now. now its called ....a side effect of medication...a physical problem not a dissociative problem, that is treated by adjusting medication.
many Americans are finding that their mental disorders of all kinds are being tweaked /changed or wrote up in their files in a different way because of the new DSM 5 diagnostics, and it can feel scary and invalidating to some when this happens.
my suggestion let your treatment provider know removing your previous diagnosis is bothering you and why, ask them to explain why they are changing your mental disorder diagnosis and where they see you as being your new diagnosis rather than your previous one. it can be as simple as one of your symptoms according to how you have them may fits better in a different mental disorder than a dissociative one. (the DSM 5 requires treatment providers to assess whether a symptom will fit better in a different mental disorder before labeling someone one of the dissociative disorders)