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Originally Posted by ensconce
Thank you amandalouise and everyone else for the great information. I think the problem I have is distinguishing whether what I am experiencing is psychosis which never goes away or DID. When I hear stuff in my head it sounds almost like i'm talking to myself, like i'm in control in my head, but its a deep distorted voice in there. There's also another with a normal voice but erratic behavior and the other one that even has a different accent and thinks differently(hes very analytical). I know for sure theres people in my head but I don't know if its psychosis or DID and its driving me crazy. The best way to describe it would be that somehow i'm either losing control without noticing and its them talking to me or whoever they are, they are somehow combining with me, the normal me and giving me their characteristics and voice for a while. I don't know if this even makes sense, i'm thinking it might just be psychosis  |
unfortunately we are not able to tell you which it is, doing that is called making a diagnosis. I can tell you which is which if ....I...had wrote this post and given it to ....my own...treatment providers.
if I had given what you posted to my own treatment providers the one thing that would point them in the right direction would be the wording of my post...example if I perceived the voices as "like talking to myself" and "another normal voice" and "like Im in control" ...
when I use this kind of wording my treatment providers would say to me that I answered my own question that this is normal and is neither psychosis nor DID. that I was just over analyzing my thoughts and actions. People normally do talk to their self in many different tones, accents, behavior patterns.
then my own treatment provider would go more into detail of what they think of this by saying...
the term psychosis is when someone is out of touch with reality, thinking,, talking , believing seeing things that can not possibly be real....example right now Im sitting here having a cup of coffee. but if I look at that coffee and see something that cant possibly be real say an alien swimming in my coffee (exaggerated example yes but just showing the point...an alien cant possibly be swimming in my coffee so that would be a psychosis symptom) the post doesnt say Im talking to aliens or the king of Saim, or other cant possibly be real people, places, things.
thats another distinguishing feature between psychosis and DID. with DID reality testing remains intact which mean the person having the symptoms knows whats real and what isnt, knows whether their voices are real or not, knows whether the voices are their own vs if they are their alters. looking at your post again as if it was my own my treatment providers would say to me that the voices are not my DID voices because I perceive them as my own not rainy's (the post doesnt say like talking to someone else, it says like talking to myself) because Im perceiving this as talking to myself not someone else my treatment providers would say sorry not a DID symptom.
then to top it off if I had wrote your post my treatment provider would point out that DID isnt like breaking a bone or getting a virus. the symptom is there since very early childhood so if these voices were just starting to happen then its not DID. then my treatment provider would say to me think about how with completely normal things in my life dont cause me to be afraid and upset by them. most people with DID that hear voices and have people in their heads do not see this as something to be afraid of because they have been this way almost all their lives. therefore (using the wording from your post) perceiving it as "its driving me crazy" would again point to the problem is not a DID problem. what is ones "normal" does not drive someone crazy.
mind you we can not make any diagnosis of your own situation. for that and to find out which \what this problem is with in you, you will need to contact your own (or a) treatment provider in your off the computer location.