Accepting my Diagnosis and Experiences - Dissociative Identity Disorder
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- I have been working A LOT lately on accepting my experiences with dissociation, especially my diagnosis of Dissociative Identity Disorder, so I thought I’d have a chat about it all to re-enforce in my head that it is real and valid and a totally okay thing to experience.
Note: Just to make this super clear; my struggle with accepting my Dissociative Identity Disorder was/is just that, trouble accepting it for ME, I never discredited or didn’t accept DID as a diagnosis and experience for other people and within society. As soon as I heard of these experiences, the diagnosis and similar diagnosis’ I knew that it was all valid, it was only relating it all to my own experience I had the struggle with.
Another note: I know a lot of people call there alternative personalities ‘alters', (at this time) I just happen to call mine ‘parts’ or ‘the guys’ but just to clear up any confusion it’s the same thing, that just happens to be what I call my other personalities.
One of the things that helped me get to this point of acceptance was doing 'The Dissociation Tag' if you want to find out more about what that is you could go to this playlist (I wouldn't mind, honest):
• The Dissociation Tag
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It seems like it's a really harmful trap for people with DID or OSDD-1 to fall into to have their doubts bolstered, especially if you have amnesia. You're fighting against a tide of misinformation, invalidation, social rejection, and you're supposed to accept yourself anyway? Doesn't help when even the medical professionals get it wrong! But they're human, too, I suppose... that's why I'm waiting to find a specialist, I want to find my own way for a bit. Very interesting video, I will definitely check out that playlist.
Yeah I agree, especially as a lot of systems generally face a lot of denial and thoughts that they are faking anyway, it doesn't help to have those worries seemingly confirmed by the outer world. I hope your search for a specialist is going well, it can be so valuable to have someone who understands and can explain things you don't understand yourself :) And thank you for saying it was interesting, always worry I'm just rambling away haha
Really helpful video. Struggling myself. Thanks so much.
I'm really glad you found it helpful, I hope things get easier for you soon
We had a very similar realisation process! We explained ourselves away as just one person who was genderfluid, or one person who was spiritual and had multiple "past lives" before we came to terms with DID. Sorry you had to go through that experience at the hospital but glad you have a supportive and helpful therapist now. If you have any other social medias we'd love to follow you on there :)
Yes that was me with the "past lives" thing! If any of you have by any chance read any of the 'Fallen' series of books, I felt exactly like the character in them as she lived her life in a loop, if that makes sense? So it just keeps going over and over but was different every time and I always wondered if that was actually possible because I felt as though I could 'remember' all these different lives, but nope DID it is, which makes more sense than past lives in all honesty haha. Ah thanks, yeah we are really lucky to have such a lovely therapist now (especially considering how much rubbish there is out there!) :D