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Originally Posted by eggyolk2
your reply honestly made me feel less alone. i always thought i was the only one suffering with this. i don't know anybody else who even remotely goes through this. i've read a lot about DID and was confused because they all had 10+ personalities when i only have one. i was wondering if you have any other way to contact you because you honestly helped me so much and if you wouldn't mind helping me a little through this i am only 18 years old suffering badly. i just need to know i am not crazy or possessed.
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As has been stated here ad naseum, we can't diagnose you here, but I'm always a bit frustrated when someone new shows up to this forum and they get well meaning advice to see a professional for a diagnosis. I've been to at least twelve mental health professionals over the course of my lifetime and wasn't diagnosed with DID until the last one while I was in my 50's. So, to be clear, only a professional mental health practitioner can diagnose you, but just because they diagnose you as having something, doesn't mean they'll get the diagnosis right - or won't miss a diagnosis.
The reason that I quoted the above though, was that I knew that I had DID since my twenties, but was only aware of one alter. It wasn't until I started working with a competent professional (again, in my 50's) that I discovered three more. We are both confident that we've found them all. I ran in to the same issues and feelings that I am hearing from you - concern and confusion because we (thought) we only had one alter or part. I was probably a bit better off than you because when I first began researching my symptoms decades ago, the average number of alters reported was much lower than it is today and 'one' was not such an anomaly.