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Originally Posted by AlwaysChanging2
How true!
Fmw- ".... i have had others doubt me as well saying that everyone has other parts to them, ego states, etc. and while i agree with that, not everyone experiences them as separate with different names, ages, genders"
Us too! I've heard the same, just like "everyone has mood changes" when it comes to bipolar- nobody gets it nor do I expect them too, but yet to still be judged out of their ignorance. Whatever.
A broken arm is a broken arm, even before seeing a doctor....but it takes a doctor to initiate quality treatment, so see a knowledgable doctor.
We knew that we were always different- and was told so a multiple number of times by other people in sayings like "people like you..." Or "you are different..."... Or you get "the look" or the stare...
It sounds like you are having a tough go at it now. I'm sorry...people suck. 
I haven't been officially branded, but I've spent a lifetime with self-imposed system wide blinders on in active self-denial, which means I knew 32 years ago. Since it was such a new thing then, it was easy to ignore and to go on in our daily business like we always had up to that point- we had teen issues to deal with that were more of a problem then this. Now that I look back, if I didn't have this, I wouldn't be having the teen problems that I was having. DOH!
The moment someone said the words (my spouse did because she just started watching 'United States of Tara' on Netflix in her room) "multiple personality"...a bunch of others in our system jumped out stating "That's what we have!" emphatically in an alcohol induced fervor. It was like a coiled spring finally sprung after all these years, let the crazee erupt! Lol.
That was a year ago. Our life now makes sense, the why we did what we did when we did what we did is clear. Now we wish that that has never happened, but the elephant is hard to ignore. Ignorance was bliss.
Multiples go undiagnosed all the time, but the really affected ones stick out, I guess. |
suggestion talk with a treatment provider for what you call official branded. please dont go just on your spouse self diagnosing you based on a tv show. That tv show has a disclaimer on it in very little print in the credits that says the show is not meant for diagnostic purposes and is not a representative of the mental disorder. that show is written as a comedy, it adds humor, pot shots and symptoms\problems that do not actually happen with DID and dissociative disorders. Usually shows like this lead a person with any number of mental and physical health problems to think they have this or that mental disorder.
let me show you what I mean...a very dear and close friend of mine watched the show, hoping to get incite into what I was going through. well she watched the show and went into major panic and anxiety because what was happening in the show was what she was going through. for months she thought she had DID. finally she went to her treatment provider, got a referral for diagnostic testing. her problem turned out to be postpartum depression.
another person I know watched this show and was so happy because they now knew what was wrong with them...DID. but one day through a routine exam it turned out that she had epilepsy, and bipolar disorder.
Im glad that you may have discovered you have DID, someday I would love to hear you went though the diagnostic process, you are doing so well on the self diagnosis, and things you find on your own, I can just imagine what you can do with the new options available to dissociative's that you cant find except through treatment providers.
Im not trying to push getting diagnosed through a treatment provider, just dont want someone to do more harm then good accidentally to their self, the line in the sand is that sometimes self diagnosing is a hit the nail on the head but most times it can lead others to great harm, thats why I say the only way to find out with 100 % certainty what a persons mental disorder is, is by contacting a treatment provider.