welcome. or should I say welcome back since one of your past posts say you were on psych central for years then life got in the way and now you are back...

since you are not new to psych central i wont go into my usual on how to find each members profile that tells a bit about each person. like if you visit my profile you will see that my basic intro is...

I am a wife, mother, lesbian and treatment provider in my off the computer location.

not sure how long ago you were here and which boards you visited then so a bit about me....

I have a past diagnosis of DID. when I came here it was on the recommendation of my therapist who felt I may find others at integration level of healing where my alters and I were in the process of merging together to become one whole person again). at that time there was no one and I was going to leave but a few members asked that I stay. I decided to stay to help others. i was in the unique position to have already been through some of the stuff other members were going through at that time time. in my culture we have a saying to help others is to help one self. I help where I can.

I no longer have a diagnosis of DDNOS among my list of present diagnosis. this is because in 2013 america discontinues that diagnosis label. here in america we now have many more individualized mental disorder labeling system. my present dissociative disorders are depersonalization \derealization disorder, dissociative amnesia, I also have problems related to what used to be called complex PTSD which due to the nation wide, discontinuing use of this label in 2013 got changed to Acute Stress Disorder. I also have bipolar disorder and MS (multiple Sclerosis)

I frequently post in this board plus other boards on the site too.