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Originally Posted by celtic.starlite
Thank you for the reply.
I have huge chunks of time (and small ones) missing in my life, but I have no idea if any major events happened during those times and that's what the one question asks.
I am thinking too much about the questions because I want to be accurate. If my T looks at all my first answers my score will be extremely high and I don't think it will be accurate. If she looks at my current answers, I don't know how accurate they are but my score will still be high.
I was diagnosed with DDNS years ago but I'm not sure they diagnosed me properly because they didn't give me any tests. I don't know. T and I discussed DID in a session and then two sessions later she gave me this questionnaire.
I have two wonderful friends with DID and I think it is extremely interesting and I have no problem knowing they have it. However, I don't want to be told I have it and then find out I was misdiagnosed or something. Both of these friends have told me multiple times in the past that I needed to talk to a T about DID because they claimed they have met an alter(s) of mine.
I don't know I'm just freaking out right now.
Celtic
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so the question is askinng....did something major happen during the time of the memory gap (space of time in which you dont remember)....
first off the word major is subjective. it doesn't mean major according to the testor, or your family or anyone else but you....
think event wise. you know how sometimes people can say during normal conversations with others....yea I went here or there with my parents but I was too young to remember it. I know it happened, my family tells me about it, shows me pictures of the trip, but I just dont remember it. another example you know how sometimes under normal situations someone can say I was on my way home and forgot to pick up the bread for dinner tonight. At work we had a party so I just lost track of time and buying the bread....
for these two people that can be a major memory loss problem. for others it isnt, when taking the tests thhese two people may mark yes on that problem or they may mark no depending upon whether forgetting the bread for dinner or forgetting a family vacation trip was major ....to them...
do you keep a journal....maybe you can look in your journal/diary for the dates to see what went on during those times in which you dont remember. sometimes people with mental/or physical problems dont always know how things have affected them/what they have done one day to the next so they keep a journal/diary...
maybe you can also read some of your past posts to see if there are any things of what you consider were major events in your life that you dont remember writing about, ...
one thing we know about dissociative type memory problems is that there is always evidence that surounds that memory gap. it may be a ticket stub, or a notation in a diary, or even documents/paperwork that the dissociative does not remember.....theres all kinds of evidence...if there wasnt a shred of evidence to that memory gap then you wouldnt even know you were losing time....
example if you dont see that coffee cup sitting on a table or in the sink a person would not know they drank coffee that morning. or if you are not standing there with your coat on, or other clues you would not know that you had gone outside for a walk. or how about here on psych central...you know you have posted whether or not you remember doing it..how...by seeing your own posts...or how about how do you know whether you ate dinner last night...you follow the clues you see the dirty or clean dishes, how your belly feels, ...
A person doesnt know they forgot something unless there is some sort of evidence pointing to the fact that it happened. if you feel you have memory gaps then just think about what makes you think you have forgotten something.....thats evidence.