its not a diagnostic criteria.

the revolving door is is a symptom \problem that many with all mental disorders sometimes have.

think of it like sneezing. there is no diagnostic criteria for the revolving door its just something everyone does at one time or another in their lives.

like stated in my first post....these are the mental health definitions of what the revolving door symptom is in my own location.

in my own location..... it means they are feeling many different emotions because of the same problem.

in my own location.....it means they are a repeat patient for things like hospitalizations.

in my own location.... it means they repeat the same negative behaviors.

to find out all the definitions of having the revolving door symptom is in your location for all the mental disorders you will need to contact your own treatment providers who will tell you what this term means related to...

dissociative disorders, depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder ... any other mental disorders and physical health problems and normal situations in your own locations.

in relation to my own locations mental health statistics/ demographics those with revolving door in my own location heal faster/ become one whole person again faster because they can skip many different parts of the healing process that others can not...

example... people who do not have a way to communicate with their alters work on trying to establish communication, then stabilizing\trying to get the alters to work together, grounding and other tools to work on talking\communicating with their alters and getting everyone to calm down/work together. then work on what each alters job, purpose, reason for being is, then work on what triggers each to take control\dissociate. then after each ones job, purpose reason for being created is taken care of they integrate/become one. all the while using therapy approaches with each step for stabilization.

a person with revolving door can skip this part of therapy and move directly into locating triggers and fix those triggers which result in dissociating. no dissociation means no alters needing to take control and they merge/ become one whole person.

example rainy sense of agency (new diagnostic for DID here in the USA, you can read about sense of agency in my link at the bottom of the page) was to handle storms and the emotions depressed, sadness.

rather than going through the steps of communication, stabilizing this alter finding out what this alter is and all that beginning work I had the ......ability.... to keep track of every time I dissociated into being rainy . I could have if I ....chose.... to ignore keeping track of this and worked for years on trying to develop communication, trauma work, .... but instead I used my ...ability....to write down\keep track of when I would dissociate into Rainy.

by taking just a few minutes to document when I would dissociate into Rainy a pattern of dissociation emerged. then rather than going the years long process of communication and such I could jump directly to using breathing, grounding during any moments where I would dissociate into Rainy. if a storm was brewing I would breath, reground back in the present moment rather than dissociate\switch into rainy. since I was handling everything that was rainy, there was no need for rainy to be separate from me, she merged together with me to became one whole person with me again.

short version this therapy approach of defining what the revolving door is here in my location and then using it at a short cut by cutting to the point ....why a person is dissociating into these alters at this moment.... then solving that problem is a faster healing process.

to find out what your locations definitions and therapy approaches \ treatments \beliefs are with the revolving door you will need to contact your own treatment providers.