Two different hims could meet the first criterion: "1. Two or more distinct identities or personality states are present, each with its own relatively enduring pattern of perceiving, relating to and thinking about the environment and self."
Personality states don't need different names. But they're pretty distinct. Who are the people deciding he doesn't have DID? Are they clinicians? It doesn't require and abuse history.
I can understand getting pissed off about someone dismissing his diagnosis. He needs validation, especially if he has shared with someone about getting a diagnosis.
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Originally Posted by -jimi-
Sorry if I'm intruding but I came to think of something that did annoy me in the case of my diagnosed friend not having DID according to some and everything could be "normal".
It was said that in DSM it says you have to have several alters that have jobs. My friend does not have that. He as two different "hims". There are no others. So I actually do read this DSM (again) that is referred so much. And I notice it does not mention abuse, it does not mention alters and it does not mention alters with different jobs. It does not even say you have to have any kind of core personality.
I'm not sure why this is read into the manuals when it clearly does not say that. Undiagnosing my friend because he doesn't live up to DID in DSM, and reading it, he DOES. IDK, but now that I think of it, it tees me off. I was bulldozed over nothing. A lie.
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