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Originally Posted by krisakira
I feel the need to clarify this. DID is only 1 of the many forms of dissociative disorders. What you are describing about having amnesia is also another form of dissociative disorder. Not DID. DID means you have alternate personalities when you dissociate, whereas other forms of dissociative disorders include some form of amnesia, depersonalization, or derealization. If you have a dissociative disorder, yet no alters, its most likely DDNOS. Unless the doctor specifies which form you have. DID does NOT mean "Dissociative disorder" it is merely a TYPE of it.
Also, you can have BPD without rage and cutting. There are 9 criteria and you only have to fit into 5 of them to have the diagnosis. One of them is dissociation when stressed out.
What you are experiencing, sounds to me like PTSD.
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Some people with DID do have problems with amnesia, depersonalization/derealization....Im one of those people who did not have very much co consciousness with my alters therefore I lost time/had amnesia when my alters were out, during the dissociating from one alter to another and from host to alter I had depersonalization derealization and many other symptoms too....
for those that want to know what america standards for dissociative disorders are now here is what the DSM 5 states....
http://forums.psychcentral.com/disso...s-dsm-5-a.html
as you can see it does take into consideration those with DID that do have symptoms of depersonalization, derealization and amnesia with in the diagnostics for DID by using terms like
for amnesia symptoms theres this diagnostics....
B. Recurrent gaps in the recall of every day events, important personal information, and or traumatic events that are inconstant with ordinary forgetting.
for symptoms of depersonalization and derealization and other symptoms theres this diagnostic criteria..
accompanied by related alterations in affect, behavior, consciousness, memory, perception, cognition, and or sensory-motor functioning.