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Originally Posted by cool09
In the early '90's I was hospitalized 7 times and I was going thru dissociation and depression but I didn't know what was wrong with me. The pdocs and psychologists never picked up on it which makes me mad. They didn't pick up on the fact that I was detached or disconnected from myself.
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back in the 1990's dissociative disorders were treated like psychotic / delusional/ schizophrenic / personality type disorders that require hospitalizations for delusions and hallucinations and being suicidal.
Today they know much more than they did 30-100 years ago about dissociative disorders.
they know today dissociative disorders are curable through the use of grounding and addressing other accompanying symptoms such as depression and anxiety and for some with medications.
Also dissociative disorders today usually are not the kind that treatment providers can just pick up on. you have to tell them how you are feeling. they cant read your mind or watch your body language to see that you may be .......feeling ....... numb, spaced out or disconnected.
today dissociative disorders are about trigger responses, locate the trigger and do something about the trigger so that you dont react by feeling numb and disconnected.
back in the day (1990's and before) they thought dissociative disorders was people hallucinating and having delusional beliefs schizophrenic type problems.
some ideas on how you can understand how this disorder has changed over the years....
go to your local library and research the disorder starting with the DSM III all the way up to today's DSM 5 TR.
I won't give you any google links for researching dissociative disorders because the DSM 5 TR now has information and paragraphs in the dissociative section that states popular symptoms, problems and behaviors you find in media-based resources are no longer to be considered for dissociative disorders.
In other words, people now must go to their treatment providers for specific information about their disorders instead of using media-based resources.
if you have a treatment provider let them know you are interested in researching why in the 1990's you were hospitalized. they can help you get copies of your medical and mental health records that can answer your questions. they can also explain the differences in what the dissociative disorders were back then vs what they are today.