Anyone else?

[Laura2.0]

My therapist thinks I have DID, but no official diagnosis yet. It started in September that the 'others' became strong enough to get enough control so I don't always remember what happened when someone else was 'outside'.
Is there anyone here who has experience with this?

[Crazy Cat Lady]

Hi Laura,

Have you seen a Psychiatrist? They will assess you and be able to tell you whether you possibly have DID. I don't suffer with DID but I suffer with PTSD and can often loose touch with reality so I can understand how scary this is.

Google Dissociative Identity Disorder; you should be able to get lots of information.

In the mean time, you're welcome to carry on posting here. We are all here for you.

Look after yourself,

X

[Laura2.0]

I know the official symptoms and I do have a psychiatrist, but he is going to retire and then I'll get another one.
I also have a therapist, but he doesn't talk about diagnoses with me. He doesn't thin a diagnosis is important, because he doesn't treat the diagnosis but the person. I like that attitude.
He did talk about Ego States in September and October, but then it happened a few times that I didn't know what someone else was doing. Most of the time I know what the others did - well... roughly like who they were talking to and the topic they were talking about but not the exact words.

[Angelina]

Hi,

was originally diagnosed with DID but then I got re-assessed because it's such a controversial diagnosis, and they instead gave me schema therapy and my diagnosis written down is now EUPD with dissociative disorder.

I'm unsure of what it was around that time after the reassessment though because they took the stance of,

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"He doesn't thin a diagnosis is important, because he doesn't treat the diagnosis but the person. I like that attitude."

with me as well - and it's a better way to think about it when the diagnosis may be unclear until there is further investigation and therapy.

After working through therapy for a long time, my therapist said that I "would no longer fit that diagnosis and have worked hard to get out of a serious diagnosis" - which makes me think I came away from that Dx after a lot of therapy.

They talk a lot about schema modes in my therapy and to me that makes sense for my different aspects and parts of myself. I still feel fairly disjointed as a person, but not so much as I used to. I think the treating the symptoms and person was really key in this, because prior to this they were all getting hooked up on technicalities of Dx and weren't so sure what to do and my PCT just outright denied my funding and wouldn't treat me.

But I still lose patches of time too, and wonder what the hell I was thinking, if I was thinking, how I was begin perceived by others during that time, because patches just go, or I find things etc etc...

My point is, treating the symptoms helped a lot in my circumstance, so maybe hopefully it will in yours too.

xx

[Laura2.0]

Yeah, treating the symptoms does help me and I've gotten better and getting in contact with the others and talking to them. So most of the time things are ok and I made compromises with the ones that were blocking me from doing things or just took control whenever I tried to do something that they didn't want me to do.

But for me it would be great to know what I have. I want to know the diagnosis so it is more clear for me. Wouldn't change the treatment if I knew a diagnosis, would it? But I would know what I have and it would be less scary if the things that are happening have a name.