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Originally Posted by MoxieDoxie
I highlighted the ones I feel.
How to tell when a person with Dissociative Identity Disorder is about to switch personalities.
Training Instructor Bethesda PsycHealth Institute 1990
headache
pressure inside the head
stiff neck - (usually not as intense as with memory retrieval)
pressure at the base of the head - (less intense than with memory retrieval)
pupil dilation
pressure behind the eyes
blurry vision - (clears, then becomes blurry)
eyes become - (watery or glassy, glazed in appearance), (eyes can also appear reddened without memory retrieval. Reddened eyes without memory symptoms means that a part is functioning that has repressed materials attached to it.)
eyes more sensitive to light
lightheadedness or dizziness
chills
ears ring
emotionally feeling more child-like
mood swing - a change in mood
thought pattern change - thoughts change about same subject and your response changes with it
feelings and emotions change - change about same situation
objects and people look different - dimensions are off, colors can look brighter or dimmer
body looks and feels detached
face looks and feels detached
face looks different in the mirror
laughter changes - different laughs, subtle different to flagrant
light in a room changes to suddenly brighter or dimmer
fainting feelings - physically like you might lose consciousness
inability to concentrate and think clearly
urgency to "do something"
thoughts become louder
orchestra of thoughts or "conversations," all with opposing views
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I didnt have any of these problems before I was integrated to point to my switching....for me there was no physical sensations to switching. maybe it was because for me dissociation was not feeling, going numb emotionally. since I wasnt feeling anything emotionally there was no feelings of physical things.
my system also followed the abusers code of ....do not tell... if I had complained as a child of having a head ache, migranes, stiff neck, looking different in mirrors my family and my friends family would have gotten me to a doctor for treatment of the problems simply because these things point to more serious physical problems like epilepsy, cancers and other major problems.
especially the vision problems schools do evaluations as children enter kindergarten, and other key moments in school. example if I had a vision problem under a triggering moment in school my parents would have been notified to take me to an eye doctor, I would have been sent to the school nurse to look at the eye chart and a quick check over to make sure nothing at school caused me to scratch my eyes or other eye problems...
my point for me DID isnt something that suddenly came on me one day. I became DID before the age of 5 due to extreme trauma/abuse. the problems listed above would have been there my whole life so there would have been many documentations with school, baby sitters, teachers, church others in the town I was raised in, medical doctors, past psychiatrists, past therapists ....since none of my reports document things like what is listed if I suddenly had it going on my treatment providers wouldnt be looking at dissociative, they would be looking at the physical.
in me there was no signs of my switching alters that others outside my body would notice like headaches migraines, complaints of perceptions....
what confuses me sometimes is the mirror thing. I know others have problems with looking in mirrors but i never did. I guess there just was too many reflective surfaces in my life to be able to avoid them. ...eating untensils, reflections on bodies of water (even a cup of milk will reflect my image back to me) right now I am looking at a big reflective surface my computer monitor. if mirrors bothered me I would not be able to use my computer, cell phone watch tv, get something from my fridge, cook my meals....theres just too many reflective surfaces in my life for me to be afraid of and avoid looking at. but I do understand that others may have a problem with mirrored surfaces.