Posted by Craig on April 28, 1999, at 4:45:45
In reply to Re: MPD/DID, posted by Toby on April 27, 1999, at 8:06:36
I like your common sense approach to this, but I would like to clarify a point. Some readers might misunderstand and think that DID simply involves assigning a person's name to an emotion to create an alter, i.e. "If I'm happy, I must be Jimmy." Alters have a range of emotions, but perhaps are focused in a more specific state of mind which distinguishes them from other alters. What I mean is that just because you're basically a happy person doesn't mean that you never get sad.
In the Anxiety vs Dissociation thread, I just posted a longer message about bipolar disorder occurring together with dissociation, so I won't repeat it here.
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