View Single Post
 
Old Feb 20, 2015, 03:19 PM
amandalouise's Avatar
amandalouise amandalouise is offline
Wise Elder
 
Member Since: Mar 2009
Location: 8CS / NYS / USA
Posts: 9,171
Quote:
Originally Posted by sickchick24 View Post
Going from super talkative and energetic to super irritated and wanting to keep to myself. Idk I think it might be bipolar disorder but someone said something about getting chills when they switched alters and I've been getting chills down my whole body ever since my psychotic break and as a kid I got lots of headaches idk thought these could be more than coincidences
thanks on clarifying what you are going through... if you were here in my location these would not be symptoms nor diagnostic criteria for having DID.

here they would be symptoms and diagnostics for things like medical problems (a cold, flu, ....) or depending on other accompanying symptoms things like normal, age related problems , or mood disorders, depression...

here in my location there is no documentation that getting chills is part of the switching process...short version here dissociation (the switching process) is things like the one doing the switching feels triggered, or numb, spacy, disconnected from their self or others.

going on just the moods of one minute being talkative/energetic and the next irritated is in the category of being normal here where I live and work, human beings normally do show many different moods and the human brain does allow a person to feel and show many different moods depending upon what is going on in their life, their health and those they are around.

one thing you need to know is that trying to figure out whether you have DID or any other mental disorder online in forum boards like this is that one person may have mood swings and they are diagnosed DID where as another person with the same exact problem may be diagnosed as schizophrenic or depression or even not have any mental disorders at all. there is no way to tell who is who and who really has what and whether someone is posting some misleading information to disguise their problems so their family and friends wont recognize them here should they locate this site. Add to that this site has many different countries with many different standards of what is and isnt a mental disorder symptom \diagnostic criteria. So for example if you live in america and trying to go by the standards in india (throwing out any old random top of the head place) you could be self diagnosing yourself drastically wrong and causing yourself more problems.

the best thing to do when anyone thinks they have a mental disorder is contact a treatment provider in their own locations, this way they will know based on their own problems, their own locations standards whether they have a mental disorder or not. please dont continue to go the self diagnosing route. I know someone who is now dead from brain cancer which was treatable. if they hadnt been trying to self diagnose and going according to what people online were telling them they would be alive today. there are many different mental physical and normal problems that share the same symptoms\problems. its best to contact your treatment providers before you do yourself more harm.