My Former T...

[trying2movefwd]

listened as I relived a flash back in her office, okay more than once. She said that I split and it was like I became more than one person.What is up with that?! Is that DID? She has always said it was just PTSD.

 

[Ronin]

Context please? As in what exactly happened that led her to form that judgment, and voice it in a way she has?

D.I.D. isn't something one can just discover through one session of therapy.

Dissociative states, however strong their depth or intensity, don't yet make one D.I.D.

 

[Poofycat]

Sounds like it could be a form of dissociation. My T and I are pretty sure I don't have DID, although it's still a possibility, but I do dissociate and carry on with life then later realize I don't remember a chunk of time. I will have different mannerisms during the time I don't remember.

Do you remember your entire session? Have you discussed dissociation with your therapist? Is your therapist an experienced trauma therapist?

 

[Chosen]

my T talks about schisms....how there's small "s" schisms and big "S" Schisms. Schisms=dissociative identity disorder/DID. schisms=trauma separated parts of ourselves, but we're aware of the parts and can control switching around. I have small schisms--so different parts, but I'm aware of each, and like....it's more so separated emotions and stuff. hard to explain, but like fear/sadness weren't allowable in my childhood, and so I had to split those feelings off...along with the development I was at at the time....so now, my little child part struggles to show fear and sadness....and she is separate from who I am as a mature person but I'm aware of her. gosh, it's hard to explain, but it's not DID at all.

 

[Ronin]

Interesting approach, thanks for sharing, @Noah.