wow was I shocked yesterday. I received a new OSDD diagnosis. I have posted in another thread that I found a new "part" please keep in mind my locations and my treatment providers and my definition of part is that its normal to have parts, that a person does not have to have any disorders to have parts. another word for parts is "roles" like I became a mother when I gave birth to my children. when I am dealing with things about my children its said I am in Mothering mode, mothering role or in the part of me that is mothering part.

well ever since discovering this normal "part " of myself everyone in all my online forums I am in except this one has been telling me things like …

"hey your an alter again"
"that's and alter you have DID"

and other harmful statements, rather than accepting the fact that this is just a normal human being part of me. I like to help people. while at the Y my child slid off my lap and like mothers do I went into to the pool to "rescue" my daughter in normal everyone has parts work this is called being in rescuer mode, being in rescuer part of me. no big deal right. but everywhere I go on the internet people are trying to claim this is an alter in me.

how many times do you see on the internet things like this where people and internet is diagnosing something completely normal as being a disorder before your mind starts questioning and believing. it

for me about a week. I went to my therapist questioning and fearing that I was becoming DID again. even though I know logically that for me this is impossible. I was so worried and upset about this that my treatment provider said to me....

you know that in October some new disorders and categories were added to the DSM by way of Supplemental Updates?

I said of course...

She said I think maybe we should think about that maybe this situation fits...

other specified disorder ….no diagnosis or condition
1 you are extremely worried about becoming DID again when its impossible

2 you are worried that this normal part of you is an alter that comes with a mental disorder

3 you are not presenting as an alter with DID, right now you are fully aware with no dissociative symptoms happening as we talk about this part of you. you didnt lose mental consciousness when being this normal part of you when you slid into the pool to rescue your daughter. you have full memory of that traumatic event,

4 my (the therapist is talking) observations of this during therapy is that you are not presenting as you did when your alters were not integrated.

5 you are a person that is active in the internet forums, I have seen how on this and that site they have tried to convince you this is an alter.

for all those reasons I think this Other Specified Dissociative Disorder - no diagnosis, no condition fits this situation, what do you think.

I had to agree, because I have such a huge fear of DID I bought in to maybe just maybe I was having mental disorders that I either do not have or wont ever have again...

I am very glad that in October 2018 "no diagnosis, no condition" was added to every disorder category. it so very much answered what I was going through and now my therapist and I can work on the fact that this part of me is normal and not a part of any of my existing mental disorders.