DID I took an online dissociative identity disorder test

[Cherry_Bluebell]

The test scored high, even though I thought my answers were going to score low. I thought DID was somebody who had different personalities and couldn't remember doing certain things when another personality was active? I only took this test because I read a few times people with Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder have DID and I thought I could prove this wrong. Now I'm confused

 

[Justmehere]

I would take all online quizzes and tests very lightly. It's best to talk to a doc or therapist about your symptoms and let them diagnose you.

If you don't have different personalities or anyone else telling you that you act like or claim I be different people, then you probably don't have DID. It is possible to have a very high level of dissociative symptoms without having DID.

Complex PTSD is not a standardized diagnosis - it's not in the DSM, so you can probably find many very different definitions of what that label may or may not include.

Anyone designing a online test that has any ethics should be giving the disclaimer that diagnosis isn't possible online but must be done by a professional.

 

[Chava]

Online tests aren't very helpful. I could self-diagnose myself with all kinds of things if I took them seriously. With complex trauma, it's totally possible to have sort of reactive or hidden or protective parts of ourselves that sort of arise when needed, but that doesn't mean it's DID. I've never taken an online DID test, but depending on the test, I could probably think I have that too, or other personality disorders, and for sure ADHD and probably several other disorders. I've asked my therapist about other stuff and she isn't interested in all the extra labels, but considers my stuff all within the complex trauma umbrella. People with complex trauma can have DID, but no it's not like you have to have both together. I wouldn't worry about it, or bring your questions to your therapist if you see one. If you thought you'd score low, chances are you don't have it, or the test sucks, or it at least wasn't a concern until you became curious.

 

[Ice_Fire]

Okay, as someone with diagnosed DID, please take the online test results with a huge pinch of salt. Do you lose gaps of time? Have trouble recognising people who are apparently good friends with you? That's the tip of the ice-berg. And nothing, nobody, except a trained professional (either psychiatrist or therapist) with experience with dissociative disorders can diagnose DID. I know I'm plugging the 'don't trust the internet' thing quite hard here but it's true. It does give some kind of indication that you may be on the dissociative spectrum, but it's a very varied one and PTSD falls on it on the less extreme end, compared to DID anyway.

'Complex' PTSD is a risky place to start with, it's not actually in the DSM, although there are plenty of arguments saying it ought to be. So, first things first, I would try and stay calm. As daft as that might sound to you right now. I understand you're confused and scared so calm will seem impossible. But this online test shows nothing more than a possible dissociative tendency and should only be regarded in the same category of say, a Buzzfeed quiz or something!

If you have a therapist, maybe ask what the disorder actually entails, but to be honest, I'd ignore what the 'test' said.

You do need to have different 'personalities' who take over. And it's at best irritating and at worst, unbearable. So I hope that you don't take the quiz to heart, believe me, you'd have a lot more memory gaps and totally frightening unexplained things going on in your life if you do have DID...

 

[KwanYingirl]

Well, we can come up with a bunch of acronyms, but the important thing to do is be open and brave when we work on our symptoms. The mind is a marvelous thing and it did its job to protect our integrity when we were way to young to understand the gravity of our situation. I think it would be an exception to NOT feel split, fragmented, splintered in order to function at all.

It used to bug me with all the disorders I've been diagnosed with. Now, I don't care what you call it, I just want to feel whole and not drift off when triggered. It is so embarrassing to forget plans or memories.

 

[Deleted member 1860]

Online tests are such crap. Everyone knows that the IQ tests boost you by AT LEAST 10 to 20 points!

I have taken a number of dissociative tests. At one point I scored a dissociative level LOWER than the average non-traumatized person. The same test a few years later (when I was FAR less symptomatic) gave me a DDNOS score. It all depends on how the therapist wants to interpret your score. It is also VERY subjective because the test I took (DES? or was it the MID? I can't remember) was asked in terms of 10% increments. It asked me my symptoms in terms of 10% of the time, 20% of the time, all the way up to 100% of the time. Well, if you're like me, you scrutinize these questions, so if you experience one symptom even 10% of the time, that means for every ONE minute out of 10 of your waking day, you are experiencing that symptom. Well, to me, that is a LOT! And that would translate to every 10 hours you are awake, you spend a full hour experiencing that symptom. Can you see how these tests are flawed?

I wouldn't worry too much about your online score results. What matters is whether or not you experience dissociative symptoms that interfere with daily living. I have dissociation that lies outside the scope of normal, but it doesn't rise to the level of being a disorder as I don't have qualifying factors based on the fact that my extreme dissociation is very infrequent.

 

[Cherry_Bluebell]

Thanks for your replies everybody :) I believe I've got dissociative traits but not DID. I do have memory blocks, believe my dreams actually happened at times, I can have a slightly different opinion about the same thing depending who I'm around and I have been told twice my personality changes in the space of 24hrs and so does my voice. But I don't think this is DID, I think the personality change is my moods and stress levels and my voice changes when I'm putting a point across because I had theatrical voice training years ago and it's kind of stuck lol

 

[Friday]

Snort. I actually had to take a middling serious psych eval test (forget which one) in the middle of my divorce for custody purposes. (Not the first one I've taken).

There are many many reasons a professional needs to evaluate these 500+ question tests.

One of which being, if we went purely off the durn thing I took, I'm a hypochondriac or suffer from OCD health issues. (WTF???) Fortunately the (half assed ditzy) evaluator mentioned this to me as it was going to be in her report, and she didn't see any history of this in her file and thought she'd lost the notes. Long story short, those things were struck, because my level of focus on health was totally understandable if any of the below were true, much less all of them

- I'd recently suffered violent assault, and had several surgeries upcoming to repair the damage.
- My son had spent 6mo in the hospital in poor prognosis, and 18mo needing 24/7 monitoring. Within the past 2 years (Hell. That was the past 2 years).
- I've worked in healthcare for any significant period of time, and as such would tend to take the questions literally

Effing idiot. Because I didn't work in healthcare at that moment, my son and I both appeared healthy, she hadn't adjusted the data to reflect current significant and ongoing medical issues. Point being; even with serious tests (much less short online ones) the data can be skewed to misrepresent the actual picture without the appropriate filters in place.

 

[JEKBreatheandBelieve]

In order to have DID, you have to have two or more distinct parts. Without that you can have many of the other symptoms, but not have DID. You can be dissociative and not have DID. I am with the others who say be wary of online tests. I think you could diagnose yourself with a lot of things by using online tests and screenings.