DID To tell or not to tell your prescribing physician that you have DID

[Keen]

Hey my friends with DID, question: did you tell your prescribing physician that you have DID?
I don't want DID on any medical records, it feels like that could be used against me at some future period of time, and I feel like because there aren't specific medications for DID, they don't need to know.
I was planning on just telling them I have been diagnosed with PTSD.
Thoughts?
Thanks

 

[FreetoDream]

I am in the same boat. I did not want DID on my record because I didn't want it held against me so it was put down as PTSD in counseling. Not all in the medial field are open to DID. You have to feel what is best for you.

 

[Ronin]

As to did you tell? Yes. Back in a while, when that was my only healthy coping mechanism and one that held me from suicide.

Did I do it again since then, or would I do it again? No.
Because it is none of their damn business, and where it has bearing on medication reactions or adhering to treatment, there are other ways of dealing with it than disclosing.

 

[whiteraven]

I do NOT. I have in the past and it has ALWAYS backfired (not saying it will for you, but that has been my personal experience). One of my physicians suggested an exorcism (yes, really) might help. I tell them I have PTSD and if it is helpful, a dissociative disorder. But never DID. My last employer found out (long story but completely out of my control) and I was terminated within a week.

 

[whiteraven]

I went to a new physician today and was not going to tell him about the DID but discovered it was already in my record. I was so upset. It leaves me feeling scared because there is such a stigma attached to it.

 

[Keen]

Wow, how do you think it ended up in your record @whiteraven ?

 

[whiteraven]

Wow, how do you think it ended up in your record @whiteraven ?

Well, yeah. That's the question, right? I suspect the psychiatrist I used to see had it in his records - and he was loosely connected to the same system this doctor is - but it in no way should have found its way into the general records. None of my doctors have ever been able to access meds he had me on, or even that I was seeing him, so I'm not sure about that. I haven't told anybody else except my therapist, so I don't know.

 

[Keen]

Stressful, I'm sorry. Definitely shows the danger of telling anyone who keeps records.