My T isn't much on labels..dxs..he said a long time ago that it didn't matter as everyone is different. But I was wondering after discussions here, if other alters..if a single personality entity..would be labeled with a different mental illness. Is that true situation with other DIDs? Seems to me..not to normals!!..that DID just describes how we operate in the world...a NOT too nice of a place, I may add. I'm not clear on this, so I hope it makes sense to someone.

[kecanoe]

My pdoc believes that some parts can be depressed and others not, same with anxiety. And he thinks that DID patients often need a variety of meds because different parts may react differently to different meds.

I am not sure about the meds, to me it seems more like they just don't work. But I do agree that there are depressed parts/suicidal parts/anxious parts. Every part is not depressed or anxious. I also have the diagnosis of mixed personality disorder-I feel pretty clear that there are parts with dependent personality disorder, parts with avoidant and perhaps parts with schizoid (although the schizoid may be more a result of the other two playing out in ways that seem weird).

So for me, yes, different parts seem to have different mental health issues.

[amandalouise]

Originally Posted by cavaliers

My T isn't much on labels..dxs..he said a long time ago that it didn't matter as everyone is different. But I was wondering after discussions here, if other alters..if a single personality entity..would be labeled with a different mental illness. Is that true situation with other DIDs? Seems to me..not to normals!!..that DID just describes how we operate in the world...a NOT too nice of a place, I may add. I'm not clear on this, so I hope it makes sense to someone.

if you were here where I am my treatment provider has rules and guidelines for what is a Dissociative type of alter vs other kinds. if a person doesnt fit the rules and guidelines then the alters can not be called dissociative kind....

example the guideline / rules that.............. my treatment provider.......... has says that in order for my alters to be called dissociative / related to my dissociative disorders I must have the reaction of a dissociation symptom right before or at the moment of an alter taking control. this is recognized either by self reporting or my treatment provider actually witnessing the dissociative event and alter taking control. If I dont have a dissociation symptom then that alter/ altered state of mind is not called a dissociation type alter by my own treatment provider.

I have had and have many different kinds of alters that are because of many different mental and physical health problems. some were dissociative (which have all been integrated/ became one with me to form one whole person again, some people call this merged and others call this mashed up together and others call it by other wordings ) and I have had, do have others are not.

different locations and treatment providers go by different rules and guidelines. to find out what kind of alters you have and if they are part of your dissociative problems or because of another mental problem you will need to contact your own treatment provider or one in your off the computer location.

i am very upbeat, outgoing, and happy, but we have a few younger alters who have severe depression, so we make sure they take the medication for it.

[amandalouise]

After rereading your thread started posting and my post I realized I only answered your title question but forgot to answer the inside the post questions...

no my alters did not get labeled different diagnosis's then I did. short version I was diagnosed as an adult with DID not in childhood, therefore none of my treatment providers knew I had DID until .........after.......I was in college and underwent diagnostic evaluations as part of the college psych class requirement for all the students in the class.

each of the diagnosis's in my life were wrote on the files as Amandalouise is diagnosed with.....

my mental and physical health filed .......do not.......say:

Rainy is diagnosed with.....
thelma is diagnosed with....
Red is diagnosed with.......

basically though I had alters it was one shared body so "as a whole part of the package of being one body" the files state it is me Amandalouise that has/ had each of those disorders...

also when my alters all integrated with me everything they were became me so again the files were reflecting the whole of me. all parts of me that made up who and what I am who and what my alters were and so on, under one body.

to find out whether each of your alters are diagnosed with something different contact your own treatment providers and have a look at your mental and physical health records. they will state whether your alters are diagnosed differently than you are.

if like my your files say the body person is diagnosed the disorders that the alters have you can ask them why they diagnosed the way they did.