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Old Mar 30, 2018, 07:00 PM
RubyRae RubyRae is offline
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Originally Posted by Amyjay View Post
What other disorders have alters? (Alter being a personality state with a separate identity/feelings/thoughts/behaviors etc)
It's my understanding that there can be different parts of the self(dissociated parts or different dissociative states)with PTSD(cptsd)and even BPD without it being DID or OSDD.

I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong though.But my point was maybe what the OP is calling alters and DID is just part of PTSD(cptsd ) and why it doesn't meet the dx of DID (as she quoted in bold herself when explaining why she didn't recieve additional dx.)

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Dissociation – "amnesia, depersonalization, discrete states of consciousness with discrete memories, affect, and functioning, and impaired memory for state-based events"
Maybe these discrete states of consciousness are what she calls 'alters'.IDK.

Last edited by RubyRae; Mar 30, 2018 at 07:21 PM.