This is a bad topic for me because it makes me mad. I have problems with the DSM 5 dissociative sections because most of the time I fit the OSDD 1B section but then every so often there's a part/alter who takes over the front, I lose consciousness, who does things such as taking pictures or makes posts or whatever who seems to have a different personality and I have no memory of it. But maybe it is me doing it and I just don't have memory. My personality does change a real lot throughout the day. Maybe I don't have DID but something else that changes the chemistry in my brain enough to make my personality change and sometimes it gives me amnesia. I still doubt I have DID because I don't have alters switching throughout the day that has a severe effect on my life. What exactly defines severe enough? How often does switching have to occur before it has a severe effect on you. My 3rd therapist said the therapist doing the diagnoses has to decide from experience and that it's not detailed in the DSM 5. She sent me to Dr. Marc Borkheim for possible dissociative disorder diagnosis. He said I have DID and so 3rd therapist accepts that but some days I doubt it. She also had me get CT brain scans.


I think overall mental disorder diagnoses have a ways to go. On day one my 1st therapist said I have schizoaffective disorder. My 1st psychiatrist disagreed with her and said I have general anxiety disorder, depression and probably ptsd. My 3rd therapist said I have c-ptsd and maybe ASD. My 2nd psychiatrist said I definitely have BPD. Third therapist said I might have a dissociative disorder so she sent me to Marc Borkheim for diagnoses. He said I have DID. It's hard to trust any of them at this point.