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Originally Posted by seradjernie
I'm going to ask him when I see him on Monday. I wonder if he would treat them differently if they were younger (My mum was very angry and unpredictable and my Dad used to mistreat me and occasionally hit me/throw me across the room, then all of the above plus sexual abuse when i was a teenager by an older man, so the others are 15/16, not 5/6/8/whatever). I think the DDNOS rather than DID diagnosis accounts for the above. I think he thinks I've just made it up because I was not sexually abused before the age of 5...which seems to be the default "reason" for DID in the literature.
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if you were here in America age of alters does not matter, you see alters can be any age, any shape any thing and are usually based on a persons own traumas, cultures, religions what have you....what ever the person needed to survive is what the alters are at creation....
example one of my alters was an adult, another was an eagle, a bear, a deer, a lion and also children of various ages ranging from extremely young to adulthood, I even had alters that were the incarnation so to speak of the abusers, introjects, psychotic alters and even alters that were dissociated emotions, some were even just hallucinatory, delusional forms.
also you cant make the alters be what they are not (in your words..I wonder if he would treat them differently if they were younger) here in america when a treatment provider is testing/treating alters they look for a special type of alter that fits the diagnostic criteria of a DID type alter. theres alot more to having alters then how old they are, they have to contain special characteristics, jobs, purposes, reasons for being.
you can say an alters age is such and such but when encountering that alter or looking at documented history the alter leaves behind trails if you will that can prove to the treatment provider you may have made up the alters ages to be what they are not. and that will open a whole other can of worms where it leads into other mental disorder diagnosis that have the symptoms of attention seeking, hallucinations, delusional thoughts and....
bottom line I dont know how things are diagnosed and treated in the UK but my suggestion is just be yourself, take it one day at a time, continue working with your treatment providers and if this is a dissociative disorder eventually everything else will be naturally ruled out so you will eventually get the diagnosis you want or need.
on a good note it really doesnt matter what something is called and whether a treatment provider is treating dissociative disorders as something else here in America because most if not all treatment providers treat symptoms. and who knows maybe you have an alter who does have psychosis that you may not know about and whatever/how ever the treatment provider is treating you will also treat this alter. like I said I had psychotic alters well I had to be treated for psychosis in order to help that alter.