i am still just unsure where i fit. it just leaves me with way more questions. it's also the fact the way she talks at times leads me to feel she is talking more about the dissociation than anything else, esp. talking about how i have an inner regulator (that has thrown images at me or sometimes talked in her voice but for whom i have not really 'met' before like i did others in the past who are not really that active anymore.)

i think it bothers me so much just because what i have experienced to me doesn't fit the borderline criteria and it feels like i am not believed or something with my experiences of having parts 'just' because they maybe didn't present themselves like the criteria says they 'should' in the DSM....which i guess is why they say there is a spectrum for various things including dissociation, borderline, and other disorders.

i am more myself and not so fragmented now, at least not near as much...except it still can affect me when i am very stressed or things in my life are too much to handle. i guess it doesn't matter so much what a professional thinks because i am the one living it.

i think i have so many overlapping symptoms that it is hard to actually 100% diagnose me...which is fine by me too.