I’m back. Just took the test and scored an 81.
Not surprising.
I knew it would be high because of the questions, but as always I believe others are playing tricks on me in the real world, rather than me creating my own misery.
WHOA!!! An 81?? I’m really sorry to hear that! At the same time, it’s fascinating to me – did anyone ever tell you what you acted like during lost time?
I’m sorry you believe others are playing tricks on you too. That’s really gotta suck!
In a similar vein but depersonalisation http://strangerinthemirror.com/questionnaire.html
YOUR SCORE IS 25
Your score of 25 falls in the range of Severe Depersonalization (25-75).
I expected it to be mild at most so not sure of the test’s accuracy. With me depersonalisation/derealisation is very much a product of acute stress.
I got… Your score of 45 falls in the range of Severe Depersonalization (25-75)
I think with me derealisation is more prominent .
At the moment I guess I’m still grieving over a few loses the last few years. The Three 'D’s of Grief are dissociation, derealization, and depersonalization. So would imagine it would affect the outcome some what.
hey,
The trouble with did is that it doesn’t hold up to any scrutiny!
Often the diagnostic procedure itself leads patients along a predictable path. It was huge once but so was Freud and we all know that wasn’t too helpful.
Seriously. I doubt you have did. Most modern research shy’s away from such diagnosis as being unscientific!
Schizophrenics are notoriously serious thinkers…brain chemistry makes you think too much about things and often they aren’t what other people are experiencing! It’s interesting that DID becomes redundant when you stop treating the patient as having it…ie it’s ■■■■■■■■!
I’ve seen people disassociate…some symptoms can cause some serious issues but I doubt did is one!
Ptsd…yeah. Did probably no chance!
A friend in the struggle,
rogueone.
DDNOS is a much more common dx. Its one of my labels. When I first started getting SZ symptoms I went to a social worker for help. She led me down the DID pathway, as she had no experience with sz or sza, she dealt with trauma. It wasn’t until I was hospitalized and put on right antipsychotics that the voices and most of the dissociation went away that I got the proper dx. I still dissociate when stressed but not like before.
I think dissociative symptoms do occur but must admit to being sceptical about multiple personalities for the following reasons (1) the massive growth of reported cases from the 80s onwards (2) A significant increase in the number of alters people claim to have, ie in some cases hundreds (3) The very uneven distribution of DID world wide
These from 2004 are quite interesting.
https://ww1.cpa-apc.org/Publications/Archives/CJP/2004/september/piper.asp
https://ww1.cpa-apc.org/Publications/Archives/CJP/2004/october/piper.asp
All I can say is that I HONESTLY HONESTLY HONESTLY had the experience I described above.
Not really since I was almost always by myself. I kind of put it off as being on “auto-pilot” and not paying attention to detail.
I don’t really believe to much in the multiple personality deal because it doesn’t seem to fit me.
Yeah I can see how someone who scored so highly on the DID test yet who doesn’t have the multiple personality part of it wouldn’t believe in it too much.
I wish I could hook you up to it somehow, just for a few minutes, so you’d know I’m not lyin’!
I’m not disputing your experience at all.
I just feel that I can be many different moods and attitudes, but they are all the same me.
Yeah I know what you mean about having many different moods and attitudes, but still being yourself.
What I experienced were PROFOUNDLY different-feeling personalities speaking through me, not just my moods or attitudes. I truly felt like I was on some “channel” that tapped into “the great beyond” as they say. It was bizarre!!!
I think besides research into Dissociative Identity Disorder I’ll do research into “speaking in tongues” too.
hey,
Yeah it’s a funny thing. Most schizophrenic symptoms were reported before medications. DID fails such scrutiny and you’ve got to wonder!
Hi. I am not raging on your experience. What I am suggesting is that your experience is clouded by your expectations of outcomes. If you’d never heard of DID I’d suggest your brain just tries to parcel things into what you think anyways…It’s still not normal but I’m thinking that if you’d never heard of DID your experience would be a heck of a lot different!
There’s a reason they do double blind tests! Placebo…or thinking your taking something that helps you will often help you above not taking anything…it’s amazing how the mind works. I suggest if you frame your symptoms with other criteria you’d have a different experience…
A friend in the struggle,
rogueone.
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Hey rogueone,
Sorry for my delayed response – I’ve been away on vacation.
I really don’t think my having heard of Multiple Personality Disorder like 20 years ago made any difference – I wasn’t thinking about Multiple Personality Disorder AT ALL at the time. The beings just “possessed” me all of a sudden out of the blue. It was only well afterwards that I was like, “You know what, that kind of seemed like something like Multiple Personality Disorder.”
Also, I don’t doubt that Dissociative Identity Disorder hasn’t withstood human scientific scrutiny very well because, as I said, at least my experience truly felt like something from “the great beyond” as they say.