I find it difficult to tell people that I have DID. I have a service dog-he alerts when I dissociate and people are very curious, nosy even, about why I have the dog. I sometimes describe dissociation as a normal thing (like forgetting why you went to the kitchen) that I do to an extreme. Occasionally someone that asks will clearly know what dissociation is. But I still don't share that I have DID. I think that many don't understand it and others don't believe in it.


With that said, I do have an official diagnosis. But I don't think that the official diagnosis gets spread around. My insurance company knows that one of my Ts is treating me for DID. But other Ts have used codes for stuff that I don't have. I have never had a problem with the fact that the insurance company thinks I have a whole bunch of stuff that I don't actually have.