[confused43]

Do you guys think it is possible for someone to fake DID? if so how would you go about telling your therapist that is what is going on?

[nothemama8]

someone might be able to fake this disorder but wouldn't it be hard to remember what is happening, besides who would want to fake this dx, it's bad enough for us to be living it

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[WePow]

If someone maybe was a hypochondriac - they could think they were DID maybe? That is a good question. But I agree - who would want to fake this?

[Rhapsody]

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Do you guys think it is possible for someone to fake DID? if so how would you go about telling your therapist that is what is going on?

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Could YOU explain this in more detail please..... so we might be able to better determine what you are talking about when you say FAKE.

BTW - if a T needs to know...... just come out and tell her & why you feel that it is FAKE and not real DID.


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[wanttoheal]

Hi confused,
As far as faking, I suppose there are people who do try to fake it, but I just don't get why. I'm just trying to climb my way out of hell. I wish it was just faking...

But, there is another side to this too. When I was diagnosed, I denied it to the extreme. There was NO way this is what was going on and I was determined to make my t believe that come hell or high water.

I've come a long way in acceptance but it seems like I still go through times where I will adamently say no way, I don't have this, it's a fake. My brain is faking this. I don't know what it is, but it is NOT DID.

This is a hard diagnosis to deal with even on the best of days. Because I don't have any awareness of times when I am gone, it can make it easier for me to pretend that it isn't so. To accept that we are DID means that we have to accept that "things" happened, that life wasn't as rosy as we want to believe or want to be so.

I almost think it's normal to go through times where we think we are faking. I know I do at any rate. I wish I were faking it. I wish so many things. Just be very honest with your T and explain to her how you are feeling. If you think you are faking, tell her. I bet she will work through it with you. Good luck to you as you work through this.

[kimmydawn]

I think this dx is so hard to deal with in this respect. Good question to post!

I think it's so hard due to the compartmentalized and varied states/parts of our own mind.

For instance, one state/part might think we're more challeneged than we actually are while another feels there's not a thing wrong in the world.

We can be influenced by those states/parts when there's not a complete amnesia going on (or the thick walls of dissociation are thinned for whatever reason). It can really be confusing and difficult.

In fact, it wasn't until I dealt with some healing that I could totally accept this about myself. I could by looking back and being able to see the separation.

I think it's good at all times to be honest with t so that he/she can help with the internal stuggles on this one.

Even though I've not read alot about DID (for my own reasons), I once came upon this word, "intrapsychic". We can sometimes pick up on other parts feelings and thoughts but not necessarily understand what's going on because we're just getting bits and pieces. I think that can happen with the feelings of being "fake"...we might be "picking up" on the feelings/thoughts of the part of us that know nothing of the illness and feels there is nothing at all wrong.

KD

KD
Thanks for your post. I'm glad you brought in the "intrapsychic" idea. It explains things for me.
w_i

[kimmydawn]

yep, w_i.

that word was a huge lightbulb for me.

not only are we that way with how i explained above, but it so explains how we KNOW things without knowing why or how...not having the memories to know how we know, etc.

it said alot to me.

kd

[Perna]

I don't like the word "fake" used here. I don't ever think symptoms and ways of being are ever "faked." People do things for a reason that helps them and that's what life/living is about. We choose our symptoms based on our own intrapsychology (it is a good concept kimmydawn :-) and needs that our environment throws up around us. Our illnesses are "personal" in that sense.

I wouldn't necessarily "tell" a T as much as I'd just act/try to respond differently and she'd see that. That's the whole point of therapy, to respond differently in ways that help us better than the older, "ignorant" ways we've chosen as children when we didn't have as many options and were under "attack" by stronger, abusive adults or other situations we just couldn't deal with straight out for some reason. If I said something to my T, it would be along the lines of how I felt I may have been "faking" and then would discuss what I meant and why I felt that way, etc. The bottom line is that it's all there to help us survive/live good, healthy lives and there's nothing "wrong" with how we choose to do that. If we want to change, heal, do things differently, we will.

[confused43]

I talked to my T about the faking thing. She said she doesn't think that i am faking it and the reason she said that she can tell that i am not is because my features change. My mannerism and my voice as well as my thinking etc. She also said she doesnt think people can fake it and get away with it. It would easily be recognizable. Unless they took acting lessons and voice lessons or something.
so that is were i am. I so scared of all of this cr*p and I hate it i just want it to all go away. thanks for your thoughts everyone.

[kimmydawn]

(((((((((( confused )))))))))))))

good on you for talking.

sometimes it would be a relief to feel that things aren't as they are, wouldn't it?

that can be all part of our strong surivival skills, in which denial is a part of. denial isn't a negative word for us, is it? it helped many of us survive.

here anytime you want to talk...

KD

[wanting]

Faking it..MMmm a very interesting subject,i have often thought myself if i am faking my depression,although god knows why,maybe for sympathy from friends,or doctors or whatever.Maybe that is just denial i do not know i have thought in the past that im Bipolar because of my ups and downs nad have thought about telling people this because it seems somehow more,whats the word i cant think but it is dramatized by people like the rock group placebo and things like that so you think it is more exciting than just old boring depression.I do know i do have depression though because of my mant suicide attempts and my many hours crying and the deep scars on my left wrist and the three days i spent alone in my room in my flat very ill after being violenty sick from taking pills,mt god i was lucky that time anyway,oh yes glamorous was the word i was looking for.DID is somehow more glamorous for that woman so ita like she wants to have it in order to relate to you and be freinds with you,after all she must be sick in someway otherwise she wouldnt have known your therapist

[wanting]

that last post i think was more for perna by the way lol i got a bit lost reading her blogs

[mlyn]