[Patagonia]

First thing, I don't mean to speak badly to anyone who has DID. I have a great deal of respect for all those working with this diagnosis. I've come to realize this is an area that I'm very confused about, even the information I read.
A month ago my T's said I had DID & we confronted my H about it which was in an old thread. I'm still not convinced this is the correct diagnosis for me. Is there any way to prove this? Maybe just to myself? I did take a DID exam when I was hospitalized in January & was told I had "very fragmented parts." I feel like I'm in no-man's land.

I've also written emails in the middle of the night to my one T. I do t remember doing it. That could be dissociation right? Written in third person.
Last wk during our session I felt like there were 3 separate conversations in my head I was listening to. It really slowed the session down bec I had trouble concentrating. At one point my one T said she wanted to talk to another part that was in my head. So she counted to ten then asked me if I was someone different, what my name was, was I male or female, & what I wanto be called.

I was the same. Nothing happened.
Last wk the other T asked me to ask my angry part to stand aside so we could talk to the hopeless part. This kind of worked.

I don't kno where I stand on the dissociative scale anymore. I'm so very confused. I did tell my T's I didn't like the session where they tried to call another part out & I don't wanto do it again in therapy.

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[amandalouise]

Originally Posted by Patagonia

First thing, I don't mean to speak badly to anyone who has DID. I have a great deal of respect for all those working with this diagnosis. I've come to realize this is an area that I'm very confused about, even the information I read.
A month ago my T's said I had DID & we confronted my H about it which was in an old thread. I'm still not convinced this is the correct diagnosis for me. Is there any way to prove this? Maybe just to myself? I did take a DID exam when I was hospitalized in January & was told I had "very fragmented parts." I feel like I'm in no-man's land.

I've also written emails in the middle of the night to my one T. I do t remember doing it. That could be dissociation right? Written in third person.
Last wk during our session I felt like there were 3 separate conversations in my head I was listening to. It really slowed the session down bec I had trouble concentrating. At one point my one T said she wanted to talk to another part that was in my head. So she counted to ten then asked me if I was someone different, what my name was, was I male or female, & what I wanto be called.

I was the same. Nothing happened.
Last wk the other T asked me to ask my angry part to stand aside so we could talk to the hopeless part. This kind of worked.

I don't kno where I stand on the dissociative scale anymore. I'm so very confused. I did tell my T's I didn't like the session where they tried to call another part out & I don't wanto do it again in therapy.

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Originally Posted by Patagonia

I did take a DID exam when I was hospitalized in January & was told I had "very fragmented parts.

here in america there is no such thing as "a DID exam"... maybe you can contact the hospital and find out exactly which test they gave you. here in america we have many different psychiatric tests, some generalized (that test for many different mental disorders/issues) and some that are specialized. I would give you some links but the tests you find online are not the ones in use now due to the publication of the new diagnostic manual treatment providers use now (DSM 5) and the ones found online are not complete tests either, they are missing key components so that everyone that takes the online versions score they have dissociative disorders regardless of whether their problem is actually normal or something else.

the best thing you can do is contact your treatment providers and those that gave you what ever tests they did in the hospital. your treatment providers can tell you where you are at on the many different severity scales in which what ever testing process that they gave you was comprised up of. (each testing process and psychiatric evaluation (test) has their own scales build right in with the testing process. so to get that information you will need to contact your treatment providers.

if you are questioning your diagnosis you can ask your treatment provider to refer you to another psychiatrist and your medical doctor who can give you a complete workup, mentally and physically. then they can tell you what is your diagnosis's severity, validity and other scales on the tests that they gave you. doing this is called "getting a second opinion" here in america.

[amandalouise]

Originally Posted by Patagonia

First thing, I don't mean to speak badly to anyone who has DID. I have a great deal of respect for all those working with this diagnosis. I've come to realize this is an area that I'm very confused about, even the information I read.
A month ago my T's said I had DID & we confronted my H about it which was in an old thread. I'm still not convinced this is the correct diagnosis for me. Is there any way to prove this? Maybe just to myself? I did take a DID exam when I was hospitalized in January & was told I had "very fragmented parts." I feel like I'm in no-man's land.

I've also written emails in the middle of the night to my one T. I do t remember doing it. That could be dissociation right? Written in third person.
Last wk during our session I felt like there were 3 separate conversations in my head I was listening to. It really slowed the session down bec I had trouble concentrating. At one point my one T said she wanted to talk to another part that was in my head. So she counted to ten then asked me if I was someone different, what my name was, was I male or female, & what I wanto be called.

I was the same. Nothing happened.
Last wk the other T asked me to ask my angry part to stand aside so we could talk to the hopeless part. This kind of worked.

I don't kno where I stand on the dissociative scale anymore. I'm so very confused. I did tell my T's I didn't like the session where they tried to call another part out & I don't wanto do it again in therapy.

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Originally Posted by Patagonia

I've also written emails in the middle of the night to my one T. I do t remember doing it. That could be dissociation right? Written in third person.

not necessarily. I sometimes write to my treatment providers in the middle of the night and not remember it and for me its called bipolar mania, depression, anxiety and sometimes even sleep deprivation (which is lack of sleep, which in itself can cause a person to have memory problems and do things they dont remember doing)

but this also does not mean a person who does this does not have DID either..

my suggestion is to go according to your treatment providers. in time you and your treatment providers will figure out whether you were misdiagnosed or not...

one thing I can say is that its very common for someone to deny/fight against a diagnosis, regardless of what the mental or physical health diagnosis is,

just keep working with your treatment providers and someday everything will make sense to you and whether you have DID or not will be cleared up in time too.

[Fuzzybear]

[-jimi-]

I know there will be a bit of an outcry now but the diagnosing dissociative disorders come with a sucky manual. There are some solid diagnoses within DD, like DID and derealization. So you'd think it would be easy to put everyone with dissociation into a neat slot. Not so.

As many as 4 out of 10 are dissociative but do not fit any dissociative disorder. To me it feels like the diagnostic tool is quite fail because it misses a large group that will still be diagnosed dissociative but with no further specification.

I ask what those people "have"? Something we have not named? Could it be that we focused in so narrowly on the "classic" DID that we miss a whole bunch of people who are not a single unit but do not meet up to a DID diagnosis? They can be multiples without amnesia or consist of just fragments that are not the full personas needed for DID.

Something is whacked with the diagnostic tool.

Since they think you are DID, they have a reason. It might be they have seen parts that you have never met. That they have observed something happening with you, like switching.

The problem is that a lot of multiples don't at all live up to the myth of DID, they don't switch easily (a myth seems to be that most DID switch on a daily basis), some switch extremely rarely. Another myth is that every part is happy to be called out and will come out on command. Not so common at all.

Anyway, I wish you luck and hope you will find answers.

[Patagonia]

Thank you all for your replies. I've decided to ask my T's to be a bit more clear on this diagnosis & how they recognize it in me. I guess I'm looking for some type of proof & yes I do understand what it means to fight a diagnosis but I wanto be sure before I move on in T.

Hopefully I get the answers I'm looking for.
Thank you!

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