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Originally Posted by abusedtoy
Do you mean that person already has DID/OSDD back in early childhood, just that it is hard to differentiate between the child alters and during childhood living with DID/OSDD, so it becomes clearer only in teenage years and especially clearer, when that teenager has gone through horrendous trauma that she becomes more aware about dissociation, or you meant something else completely?
In my case, I have went through early childhood trauma, especially with negligence, so I wonder about the dissociation back then too.
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Let me clarify a point. On this board another Veteran told me that he was receiving treatment for dissociative disorder at a VA clinic up in North Carolina. He said that many of the Veterans who got traumatized severely in the Gulf wars were exhibiting dissociative symptoms. So that VA was developing a treatment program for dissociative disorders. So maybe it can be caused by trauma later in life. But, the trauma has to be extremely severe. Like having your arms and legs blown off.
For most of us MPD/DID is a hidden mental illness. No one recognizes the symptoms while we are growing up. That is mainly because the family is totally dysfunctional. If your parents did not have mental health issues then you probably would not have gotten traumatized enough to develop the mental illness in the first place. So no one recognizes the symptoms and you have amnesia about the alters so you do not know about the symptoms. Later in life you are traumatized physically or psychologically severely. The symptoms become so severe that it is obvious at that point and not hidden.