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Originally Posted by peaches100
I'm wondering about something. I've taken the test for DID online three times. The reason I took it that many times is because of my tendency to be in denial about having DID. What I noticed was that my scores varied each time I took the test. (I took the tests several months/to 1-2 years apart). So here's my question:
If a person has DID, how could they know for sure that they have DID... since they have different parts...couldn't different parts be taking the test each time?
My scores were 40.5, 42. and 49.
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first some info that may help the des you find online is not the tests they now use for diagnosing if a person has DID to answer your question how does someone know for sure... here in america treatment providers have a whole battery of tests they have people take called a psychiatric evaluation, the test has many many parts to it and takes many sessions to do so that the doctors can see the person under stress and how they are in relaxing normal situations too. then everything is compared and scored to give what the diagnosis is.
if you have been diagnosed, talk with your doctors, they can tell you how they came up with your having DID, tell you what all your different scores were, which ones should have been high and which ones should have been low but were not so added up to you having DID.
if you havent been formally diagnosed and going on your own self evaluation you might want to consider being formally diagnosed just for your own peace of mind and then you will actually know first hand the hows and whys a person gets diagnosed with DID.
back to the online version of DES. it doesnt take into consideration things like history, life style, meds, health problem, a face to face diagnostic evaluation with a psychiatrist. it just is you answering questions based on how you are at that very moment of taking the online test. because things change from day to day like how you are feeling, what you have eaten, what time you took any meds and so on the test is going to say different each time. I have taken the des online version many many times and each time I get a different score. one time even though the problems I was having was related to my physical situation of being pregnant it told me I was highly dissociative.
my suggestion is if you want to continue using the DES online version use it as a way to show where you happen to be at the moment of taking the tests, what things you want to focus on changing that day... example if you have answered you are feeling disconnected then focus that day on grounding. many times I come up with one answer... that today I need to focus on paying more attention to what people are telling me, or that I need to focus more on paying attention to what I am doing that day.