Put the potential candidate in a small empty room with a chair. Close the door and let sit for hours, wait to see if the candidate starts to get impatient. If not, most likely DID/DDNOS, especially if they said they had a good time!

[CANDC]

Always, you always have interesting ideas!

Have you tried this?

I do it every morning! Me and my cup of coffee and total silence for about an hour. Even in the afternoon, I'm never bored. It helps to have a comedian in the midst! I'm sure it looks pretty peculiar when I burst out laughing for awhile by myself.

My partner didn't get it when I told it.

[amandalouise]

lmao love the idea, unfortunately this would not have worked for me. I was always a creative child who could sit for hours on end in a room doing nothing but normal daydreaming, no voices, no hidden conversations with the alters, just me and my creative mind daydreaming about that crack in the floor boards, or that ant crawling under the chair to do what, wondering who made the chair i was sitting on and how, what that person must have been like, I even had a circus going on my room one night to occupy my mind so that I would not fall asleep.

I know someone who is not DID or dissociative disordered and he sits himself in a bar room and is completely content and happy with himself and that room. he calls it his world of magic because in that room he can sit there and imagine anything, any person place or thing or even just sit in meditation.

but boy wouldnt that be great if all tests are like what you posted. my kind of test for sure lol

[Kiya]

rofl - not a bad idea! I finally realized I'd been standing for some time, holding on to the back of a chair and staring at a wall.... not seeing anything "out there" of course.
Tonight when I told someone of the song stuck in my head, they said "Play the whole thing and it will stop." Huh? It is playing. The whole thing. "FOR REAL play it... like out loud. Your ears connect to your brain". I still barely get the concept - it's practically louder in my head than it would be if I played it LOL

Originally Posted by Kiya

rofl - not a bad idea! I finally realized I'd been standing for some time, holding on to the back of a chair and staring at a wall.... not seeing anything "out there" of course.
Tonight when I told someone of the song stuck in my head, they said "Play the whole thing and it will stop." Huh? It is playing. The whole thing. "FOR REAL play it... like out loud. Your ears connect to your brain". I still barely get the concept - it's practically louder in my head than it would be if I played it LO

I know it! Like, I sit down to watch t.v., I'll end up in a trance missing everything, too busy gabbing upstairs. It's annoying when I want to really see something, like the weather report. I'll usually come to after realizing that I missed it again!

We alters have our own theme song, like wrestlers have theirs, and we like to jam it!

[Flipping Frames]

We escaped from our tormentors by reading. Five books a day equals five new alters. That is why there are thousands of us.

I'm sorry, that has to be like wild. I know how it feels, like a picture of a picture of a picture with only one thing out of place in each. Luv!

[Restin]

Fascinating! At the psych ward, they would throw me in the isolation room for a night sometimes, and take their time getting back to me next day. I didn't care. Isolation is no torture for me, as I have my inner world right there with me all the time.

[Kiya]

Same here... Isolation room? Awesome! No roommate, had my book and my own inner world , no screaming patients next door, my own bathroom. Paradise on the ward.

[TheFuZZieONE]

This is awesome!

I'm in the military and have been for 13 years now. If you don't know, our motto is "hurry up and wait." People in the military must be prepared to wait in lines for hours, days for convoys, months in the field. Well, I was in a field training exercise and had to wait in the 1SG office for like 8-9 hours. Out of nowhere my Sgt asked me if I was on only child. I looked at her confused and answered, "yes I am an only child, how did you know?" She said she could tell by how I was able to wait patiently the entire day and never complained. She said I looked happy and content in my own head, which I was. I could sit and daydream for hours! I also think my DID may be triggered by a lonely childhood and an extreme propensity to daydream. I don't have any real childhood trauma that I can remember except being raped at age 18. There is no other excuse for my DID that I can think of. But I can say I'm happy and content sitting in an empty room for hours! Lol ;-)