[*Beth*]

Hi, Have any of you with a dissociative disorder (any type of dissociative disorder) been misdiagnosed and, if so, what have your diagnoses been?

[Nammu]

I was misdiagnosed with a dissociative disorder and sent to a group program specifically for dissociation and labeled DID. Funny thing is when not on ADs and benzos I’m not dissociative. My anxiety was so profound that they always wanted to treat it with benzos, and ADs, which caused serious side effects of sleepwalking and dissociation. They said did because I’d do things I had no awareness of and would not ever do knowingly. Like in group I apparently pulled out a newspaper and read it not participating in group. I’d never do that to someone who was sharing. How rude. But the leaders and everyone agreed that I had done that. But every time I went off the medications I was fine, we’ll not fine, I still had ptsd and bipolar but things were much better off meds. I wasn’t dissociative off the meds. Now I’m only on propanol and latuda. Much much better.

[lemonSys]

Yes - bipolar 2 followed by bipolar 1.
However, while *I*, the writer of this post, don’t have these, turns out I have parts that present as primarily manic while others present as primarily depressed. So misdiagnosis “makes sense” to some degree.

Also - because I reported hearing voices, I was labeled as psychotic. These voices, though, are my parts, not hallucinations.

That’s all I can think to say for now,
lemonSys

[Fuzzybear]

I have. I might post more later (but maybe not) I thought I'd post here though in case anyone else wanted to share.

Hugs

[stahrgeyzer]

@Nammu that's frightening to think prescribed meds can do that! That reminds me that a good number of people sleep walk and become a different person. While in high school I used to jump out my bedroom window in the middle of the night and go places with no memories of it. The only reason I know is that sometimes I would wake up in different places. I remember the family used to talk to my dad while he was asleep. He would answer questions and talk like a different person. He had no memories of it after waking up. I've heard of other people doing the same.