Posted by muffled on December 7, 2008, at 15:19:36
In reply to Re: Dissoc disorders, not easy » muffled, posted by Phillipa on December 7, 2008, at 13:19:14
> Muffled that was a great explaination. Would it be okay If I ask some others as even though did at one time work in psych this has never been clear to me. Is DID like sybil with multiple personalities and DD just kind of when you zone out and forget? Wierd cause I tend to change subjects mid discussion when my mine not aware of doesn't want to go there. Is that DD? I really am not sure. I admit I did you you had DID if my understanding of it is right if not you wrote so much above could you explain a bit more? I hate to ask. Love Phillipa ps you must be a wonderful understanding Mom.
*Its on a continuum, like a scale. You can be anywhere on that continuum. It varies, the actual DX, cuz its not clear. They keep discussing how to revise the DSM over it.
The scale goes from plain old daydreaming to DID. Its not always necessarily pathological. Just if it is interefering in your life.
MY opinion of DID dx, tends to be, I think of it as, well, I guess I would not say its DID unless there were signifgant amnesias.
For example, I sometimes come across stuff I have bought, and for the life of me I cannot understand WHY I bought it, BUT I rmemeber buying it. A person w/DID can find something they have presumably purchased, but they have amnesia, they do not remember making the purchase at all.
In DID the 'ego states/personalities/alters/others' etc.... whatever you want to call them... are much more defined, and can completely take over functioning of the body (hence the amnesias).
And, it can be anything in btwn, etc etc.
This is a grossly general description of 'some' differences IMHO.
Its a HUGE topic that I cannot all cover here.
I am still in the process of learning.
So 'dissociating' in is broadest description is something we all do, not all dissociating is bad.
I can't tell you Phillipa if what you do is a pathological thing, or what it is due to.
I surely wish you could find a T that might be able to be a support for you.
Thanks,
M
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