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Originally Posted by kecanoe
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.
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Ah yeah I guess aside from mental health professionals and insurance companies I guess no one else
has to know. Honestly it's how the people we live with could respond. This get's kinda messy and complicated. None of us are quite sure how long we've been around because we haven't pinned that down. the host spent a long time denying while all the rest of us were trying to figure out what was going on. Because having DID? that couldn't ever happen to me. Although the host has experienced dissociation without complete memory loss for as long as he can remember (kinda lacks many memories from before the age of 12). BUT not all us had been around since then. Gosh that's getting off topic.
Anyway like in the original post we could run into the problem of not being liked or wanted, which would suck for obvious reasons. But most of us feel it would be equally as bad if the host's mother and stepdad flat out didn't believe it. We don't mind keeping it all hush hush but we don't like it when someone denies our existence or the trauma we went through. They have met all of us without knowing it. But you see the host's mother is a bit of a psychology nerd. Psychology was her favorite subject, so much that she has a masters in school counseling, basically she's familiar with this kind of thing. And the fear here is that she or other people could fail to believe us because we might not fit the mold in every way.