Posted by RealMe on November 24, 2007, at 12:55:41
In reply to Re: DDNOS anyone???, posted by star008 on November 23, 2007, at 23:52:51
What I gave you were the diagnostic criteria from the DSM-IV-TR which is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual-4th Edition, Text Revision. This is what is used by psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, etc. to make a diagnosis. What I gave you were the diagnostic criteria for: Dissociative Disorder Not Otherwise Specified (DDNOS), Dissositive Identity Disorder (DID), and Dissociative Fugue. I gave you three of the diagnosis criteria. Obviously this does not cover everything, but it is true that people with DDNOS do dissociate. It is a variant of dissociative disorders.
I will not bow out of here and post no more on this topic. It is all very complicated. and just giving the diagnostic criteria does not tell the whole story, obviously. When I was doing my postdoctoral fellowship in clinical psychology, I worked with persons with all the variants of disscociative disorder. The best thing is to just work with your therapist.
There is a good book out, however, written for patients. It is by one of my supervisors from Menninger's. It is called, "Coping with Trauma, A Guide to Self-Understanding," by Jon G. Allen, Ph.D., c. 1995, American Psychiatric Press, Inc. He has written another book especially for patients, and if you google his name, I am sure you will find it. This one book, however, is excellent.
RealMe
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