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Originally Posted by amandalouise
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.
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Yep. Thanks for pointing that out. Self-diagnosing is harmful to ones safety and sanity. Consult a qualified professional in such matters.
As far as I am concerned...I'm just stating the lifelong obvious.
For everyone's benefit, I've several years in college psychology- no degree, just enough to know some things like basically how the brain works up through hypno-therapy. I'm a trouble shooter with a systematic scientific approach to problem solving.
Self-diagnosing is not good. The human brain can be highly suggestible to which can cause false symptoms to manifest itself as real misleading the person in to believing that which isn't true. This is even the same for physical symptoms. The mind controls the body and can cause supposed physical and mental conditions to appear. If you want something, it can make it happen.
My partner thinks I'm a nut with no clue, with a bad selective memory, that does things that are "out of character" (?), inconsistent, quirky, that I lie, moody, crazy, don't know who I'm going to be when she gets home, and that I'm not mentally ill, and that I'm faking it. Sure...why not. At least I can now quit these bipolar meds and go on to living a normal productive life, except something just seems to get in the way everyday, everytime, in every way. (Tons of sarcasm oozing at the seams).