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Originally Posted by BethMae
Hello,
I'm a new member, mainly trying to find information on dissociative disorders and what exactly I'm experiencing. Is it DID or DD NOS? My therapist won't say.
I am trying to find information about my particular dissociation experience. My therapist hasn't defined it for me, and I don't know if she can. When I have a traumatic flashback or other stressful situations I can regress to where I think I am 6 or other ages, but always answer to my name, not other names. These experiences happen for hours at a time, sometimes even a day or more. I recall things that happened at the age I think I am. I have no memory of what happens during these times and my therapist is reluctant to share the information with me. Is there a name for this type of dissociation?
Thanks,
Beth
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welcome.....
question... have you asked your therapist what you have or are you waiting for them to tell you...
legally if you ask, a treatment provider must now tell you what you have, whether you are asking a medical doctor or a mental health treatment provider.
you can also ask to see your mental health files. here in america any one in treatment can obtain copies or see their files that their doctors, and mental health treatment providers keep on them, you can even go back to your elementary, jr high and high school and get copies of them too if you want.
my point is if you have been diagnosed with a mental or physical health problem theres documentation available to you to answer your question of what mental disorder you have.
another suggestion Ask your therapist for a referral for diagnostic testing for mental disorders. this kind of testing isnt the kind you can just do in a 50 minute therapy session, theres medical tests, psychiatric tests, even IQ tests, they also look at your past therapy sessions files (some mental disorders are life long, they just dont appear one day out of the blue, for example with DID the problems are there since very early childhood, (below the age of 5 in most USA states) and affects every aspect of a persons life, not just one portion of a persons life like during therapy,
my point is there will be a whole life time of documentations on certain problems/ issues associated with some mental disorders so you may need to release some of your records have have been kept on you all your life, if they are needed for the diagnostic process.
in other words even though we here cant tell you whether you have a mental disorder or not and which one there are ways for you to find out on your own , working with your treatment providers.