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Originally Posted by toomanycats
Long story short -- in college, I was diagnosed with DID. The psych who gave me that diagnosis eventually tried to prevent me from getting a job (security clearance) because of it. At that time, I renounced the diagnosis and ran far far away from ever talking parts.
S (exT) always eyerolled the diagnosis with me. But then, 2 years in, I brought parts up again, tentatively, because I was struggling to describe my internal experience any other way... and got a big fat eyeroll/sharp rebuke for ever thinking I could possibly have any sort of parts.
So now it's coming back up again. And it just feels... I don't even know. Shameful. (For me...I absolutely believe other people can have parts and even DID - but 'what happened to me wasn't bad enough - wasn't valid enough' for it to be real for me -- I'm just making it up for attention or at least people will think so idk) idk
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I do have DID and don't take offense to anything you have said. I do think everyone has parts or aspects to their personality that have some degree of separateness to them. i.e. Pretty much everyone can relate to having a kid part, or a serious part, or a fun part or whatever. I think that is pretty normal of the human experience, because we all need to call upon different aspects of ourselves to adapt to different every day situations.
Then I think there is simply a sliding spectrum from there with normal but interrelated and inter-functional parts to the other extreme of having trauma, DID and amnesia.
I think it is pretty normal too with any amount of trauma, big or small, to separate parts of self to one degree or another. Again, on a sliding scale. I think there is an enormous scale of normal between 'having parts' and having DID. Also, the treatment isn't really that different in DID. It's still all about being compassionate with all aspects of your being/s; listening to your self/selves; respecting and honoring your self/selves. It's all the same really.