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Old Jan 14, 2016, 07:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Calista+12 View Post
I have been misdiagnosed for years. Finally my psychologist saw signs and arranged to have me see a specialist. The funny (NOT so funny) thing is, I took the dissociative scale test and all I could focus on was the doctor telling me I needed to do it as fast as possible. Turned out this "doctor" read the results and told my psychologist I must have been faking because the score was high. If my psychologist hadn't actually seen changes in me/us I would never have believed it.
Im taking a guess here that maybe the person administering the test was going on the testing system that even dissociatives have their good days so not every answer is going to be to the extremely dissociative side of things. here in my location we go by this testing system that no one is always dissociated and no one is never dissociated. other wise there would not be that middle ground called normal dissociation.

example using the old outdated and no longer used DES test ...

some people have the experience of driving a car and suddenly realizing they dont remember what has happened during part or all of the trip. select a number that shows what percentage of time this happens to you...

selecting 100 percent means every single time you get in a car you have no knowledge of what happened during part or all of the trip you cant verbally or written explain details about driving over.

but during the interview stage the test administrator asks how was the ride over did you have any trouble finding the address, the office where the test is being given, how was traffic, and other important questions about your day and why you are there and about driving over. you dont realize you are being tested at this moment, it just seems like having a normal conversation with a psychiatrist. if the person being tested can describe their day and driving over, with details then that points to possible deception on the DES question.

the next question on the outdated and no longer used because america is now on a different version of the DES....

some people find their self dressed in clothes they dont remember putting on, select the number that shows the percentage of time this happens to you...

Again selecting 100 percent that says every time you get dressed you do not remember selecting your clothes and putting them on...

during the interview part of the test where it just seems like you are just having a talk with the psychiatrist and they are commenting on your clothing and how nice you look,... they are gathering information to compare to the written test answers. if you cant remember 100 percent of the time putting on the clothes then the person being tested is not able to give details on their morning grooming\getting dressed routine.

my point its these little things like this that can make some treatment providers question whether the person being tested is being completely honest. also someone who is so out of touch with reality that they are not aware 100 percent of the time for every question, that usually points to something like severe autism, Alzheimer and other brain trauma issues.

short version my location goes on the belief that just like any other mental and physical health problem people with DID have their good days and their bad so nothing is going to be at 100% on the tests and nothing is going to be 0% on the tests because there is normal dissociation factored in.

Im not trying to make excuses for the treatment provider who said you were faking, just giving some incite on how it ....may .... have been possible for treatment providers in general to fall into this faking trap many of us have encountered over the years.

only that treatment provider can say for sure why he felt you were faking based on high scores. who knows maybe he was using the wrong scoring chart or something.
Thanks for this!
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