Recent content by amy4k

I used to think that other people heard voices and carried on conversations in their heads, and that was normal. I blamed my "forgetfulness" and losing things on my kids. Getting to the diagnosis took weeks of discussions and interviews because I had to learn what was normal and what wasn't and...

I can't believe that they are going to use the DES for funding and determining funding. The DES is just a scale to determine if more testing/evaluation is needed. Most people who are later diagnosed as DID using the SCID-I score between a 30-60. Higher scores are very suspect and generally...

Have you asked the powerful part why s/he needs to deny the memories so strongly? I have the same situation going on in a way. I have a child part that was neglected and ignored. A lot of my depersonalization symptoms reside in this child part. To help her I have to allow myself to be open to...

Being that something like 85% of people diagnosed with a dissociative disorder are also diagnosed with PTSD, these two disorders are closely related. Two books that i have found that discuss this relationship and the various diagnosis of dissociative disorders are "The Stranger in the Mirror"...

My childhood/adolescent memory is like a scaffolding. I've remember enough or heard enough through family stories that I could give an acquaintance a "story of my life", but there is no connection to most of these memories. It's funny that my T went to the same high school I did. She was a...

Losing time or amnesia is the ONE thing that differentiates DID from OSDD (DSNOS). People go into therapy at all sorts of stages of awareness. And, you can be co-conscious with alters and still have DID. I knew of one of my parts as far back as high school, most I have just learned about since...

This would just be my opinion because I have only had different parts bring up trauma a few times. Reassuring them and trying to ground them to the present is first (and hardest). Tell them you want to hear what they have to say, but maybe not right now. Ask them if they want to write their...

I don't mind questions, but trying to explain the experience of DID can be difficult, so please bear with me. The "voices" could be thought of as "thoughts", although they are thoughts that don't seem to belong to who "I" am. And, there are feelings that don't belong either. An example: I love...

I don't experience audio either...it would be rather impossible as the alters do not send out sound waves. It is internal communication. But, each one has their own speech pattern that is very similar to how they sound externally. I have recorded some of my therapy sessions because I wanted to...

It depends on your definition of hearing voices. I hear voices coming from inside my head, not outside. But, yes I have voices that talk to me and talk among each other. I have some that don't speak, instead talk to me using visions (again I know they are coming from inside). Since my diagnosis...

Dissociation Disorders, including Dissociative Fugues and Dissociative Identity Disorder fall on the same continuum with PTSD. Your family member does need to be seen by a medical doctor to rule out any neurological reasons, but also see a Psychiatrist who can do a full interview regarding her...

Shortly after I was diagnosed with DID I took my husband in for a joint meeting with my therapist. I didn't think it would be too bad because it was just so she could explain it to him. Boy was I wrong...I dissociated through the whole thing! And, really we didn't discuss anything specific to my...

You can have co-consciousness with DID. Sometimes I am co-conscious and sometimes for one reason or another I am not. But, co-consciousness is also something we work towards in therapy. As it was explained to me there are many different types of amnesia. I can be co-conscious with one of the...

As another one with DID I often feel emotions that do belong to "me", they are the emotions of another part. For example today I have alternating bouts of extreme anger and sadness that do not really belong to me today. Could this memory be causing a lot of anxiety for another part(s) that you...

Just stopped by to check on you. I've had a lot of rapidly changing dissociative states myself this week and have not been on much. But, I have been thinking about you. I hope things are calming for you.