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Originally Posted by YMIHere
Hi Peaches!
Hate to put you on the spot, but this description brought what is probably a very common question to mind. How did you first fine out? With all of those goings on and now being conscious of it, I'm guessing maybe that wasn't always so or was it?
Pardon my ignorance, but my knowledge of DID goes back to "Multiple Personality Disorder" and my mother telling me about the movie "Sybil." I also read a book called "When Rabbit Howls" a long time ago and I don't remember the how or when she figured it out.
Like I said I can't remember too much about it. I feel like I saw some TV drama a while back where someone would lose LONG stretches of time - end up somewhere dressed like a ***** trying to figure out what is going on.
IF I remember correct - and that's a VERY big if - I think in the book, she was only able to integrate after therapy, right?
Everything you wrote sounds like the way I feel sometimes - multiple "Me's" but I've never lost chunks of time or anything like that so I'm sure it's not applicable to me. I kind of feel like it's the type of thing you'd have figured out by the time you're 45 years old, but maybe I'm wrong.
Anyway, looking forward to hearing more.
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Hi ymihere....I want to jump in and say hi....and that the dissociative disorders are more than just DID/MPD...that it has other levels of symptoms such as co-consciousness (opposite of the amnesia aspect in DID) where one is aware of time and memories and other parts and can have less than distinct parts that can influence a person (OSDD)- that's where the majority of those that suffer with this condition thrives.
DID/OSDD is a lifetime condition. I suspected at 15 but ignored it till I was 46, but there are other affected people that can live, not know, and be prosperous to the very end.
So, you can see, there's a little/lotta more too it. If you have concerns, a visit with a therapist can help discern any concerns that you might have.
