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Originally Posted by celtic.starlite
Hi,
I've never been officially diagnosed with DID and actually, I learned about DID mostly through my Psychology classes and through online support groups. I have several people who have told me I have alters. I used to see things and hear things in my head. I used to have conversations with the voices/thoughts I heard. I denied all of it about 8 years ago after being told I was lying about it. The voices faded and I hardly hear anything from them anymore. Sometimes I feel like I have a child standing behind me (best way for me to describe it). Sometimes, I will find stuffed animals or blankets pulled down from their places and I don't remember doing it. My T hasn't said anything yet and I didn't tell her that I hear things sometimes but next week we will start processing the bad memories, most of which are missing huge chunks.
Does this sound like DID to you? I'm not sure I want to tell my T, I think k I'm just going to let it play out. If they're there, they will eventually come out, right? Then T will know.
Celtic
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does this sound like DID ....well to me it sounds like lots of things.....the things you posted can be...
normal for some people
any number of medical problems for some people
any number of mental disorders/problems for some people
line in the sand we cant tell you whether this is DID or not..we dont make diagnosis of each others problems/symptoms/posts...
what I can tell you is this is what America goes by in diagnosis what is DID...
http://forums.psychcentral.com/disso...s-dsm-5-a.html
as you can see there is more involved with having DID then just hearing voices and conversing with those voices, in fact the voices are not a .......diagnostic criteria...... this is because hearing voices is a symptom of many different normal, medical and mental health things
example for someone stressed out or someone who didnt get enough sleep can hear voices and talk to voices in their heads, feeling like a child is standing behind them and the other stuff you posted and its not called DID it would be called sleep deprivation or stress induced hallucinations and stress induced delusions....
the only way to know whether you have DID or not is by contacting your treatment providers, they can administer physical and mental testing procedures that can tell you whether this is normal for you, or a medical problem for you or any number of mental disorders that also have the symptom of hearing voices/talking to voices.
my suggestion if this continues to bother you contact your treatment providers they can help you figure out what is going on with in you.