Breaking Dawn...

your posts asking if anyone is here and hoping someone would reply to you....

I still visit many places that I am a member of including this one when I have time. So yes, I am still here and reading your posts, you are not alone.

I'm sorry I cannot discuss your posted about symptoms, problems and behaviors. For those discussions you need to contact your own treatment providers.

thanks to the worldwide standards and DSM 5 TR ways that's now the only place you will find the real information and discussions about dissociative disorders.

you can read the DSM 5 TR for details, but the short end of the stick is that the mental health world has rendered any "typically found in media-based" ways the popular symptoms problems and behaviors useless and will get a person diagnosed as...

A. just being normal, no mental disorder. (some symptoms, problems and behaviors have been publicized so long and all over the place, used in the wrong ways and for other things, that they have become part of normal everyday life instead of a mental disorder thing. you find them everywhere regardless of mental disorder. so they have been removed as a dissociative disorder thing)

B. a different mental disorder not dissociative disordered, not a dissociative symptom, problem or behavior. (there are some popular symptoms, problems and behaviors in media based ways example the internet forums and groups, that are part of other mental disorders but do not really happen with dissociative disorders.)

C. factitious disorder imposed on self or imposed by others. aka faking/pretending / roleplaying, exaggerating, gathering information through media-based ways and acting on them, taking on the symptoms, problems, behaviors of another person in their life that they are close to. Portraying symptoms, problems and behaviors of a mental disorder but do not actually have that disorder that they are portraying. someone forcing another to be a mental or physical health disorder when they are not.

I can't go into any more detail than that. suggestion ...

if you are having a mental disorder problem, symptoms or behaviors contact your treatment providers, they can help you with information and discussions directly related to your specific symptoms, problems and behaviors.

if you do not have a mental health treatment provider, contact your medical treatment provider. many if not all countries now have either free or state funded insurance plans that must include mental health.

here in america it is a requirement for people to have health insurance either through their work, state insurance or privately paid for insurance that includes mental health care.

some have a hard time getting insurance so yes you are able to still pay out of pocket if you like but it is expensive. many places still have sliding scale fee where what you pay is based on your income.

read the DSM 5 TR. you can purchase a copy through the American Psychiatric Associations website or their amazon store page. you can also read it for free at most public libraries around the world. your treatment provider can also go through their copy of the DSM 5 TR dissociative disorders section if it pertains to your specific symptoms, problems and behaviors.