I agree with Rubyrae here not all problems in this board are DID. its just that those of us posting at the moment have or have had DID and are now integrated (one whole person again)

not everyone who has been traumatized as children will get DID, theres more to this disorder then being abused.

in short dissociation is things like feeling numb/ emotion less, feeling spaced out, feeling like an observer, a mental sense of distancing, like things are moving too slow (think feeling like what you see in a movie where a character is moving in slow motion but a bit different because its not physical and everyone has a different kind of feeling description to it )

thats what normal dissociation is in my location.

from there dissociation has different kinds of how bad it is, when it reaches a certain point on mental health charts, it is called one of the dissociative disorders...

for america thats dissociative amnesia, depersonalization / derealization disorders with or with out the specifier fugue, OSDD, UDD, and DID.

for other countries that list may also include conversation disorder (which here in america calls somatization disorder located on the somatic board) or as other members have been trying to point out to me there may be another dissociative disorder in other countries called Poly Fragmented DID (PFDID) I have not yet found any info on this last disorder but will keep looking.

my point is that this board is for all kinds of dissociation not just DID.

here in my location the veterans administration statistics do not show their veterans who have been traumatized by wars developing DID in their adulthood. they show here where I am that they have PTSD which does include dissociative problems.

anyone that wants to know if their locations veterans have developed DID because of serving in wars and their tour of duties can ask their local/ nearest branch of the VA to see their statistics on mental health.