brokenpony
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tbc i didn’t mean that there’s anything wrong with being early 20s, just that this is the age group doing it.Actually, I'm in my early 20s and I suspect DID because of dissociative symptoms. I don't know if I have different parts, I suffered some emotional abuse as a child, such as domestic discord. I can be quite childish at times and serious at other times, my memory is terrible but I never waste any time and my therapists never dwell on that.
i think it’s normal to not know your parts at first. some people will and some people won’t. “childish at times and serious at other times” doesn’t necessarily mean DID parts, it depends what you mean. and cptsd can have high dissociation without being DID. the best thing to do is talk to a clinician about what’s going on.
cptsd from childhood is implicitly a prereq for DID. i think of DID as a particular development and expression of cptsd from childhood. trauma severity plays a part in that but it’s not the whole story. it's very complex. sometimes we also don’t remember everything, and minimize our trauma that we remember, both of which are very common in dissociative disorders. it’s best not to compare trauma severity, which is subjective, and focus on the symptoms.Good luck on your recovery journey, is having childhood ptsd enough for DID? What does this trauma severity depend on? Could emotional trauma or family conflict cause it?
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