Dissociative Experiences Scale

I remember taking this quest last week, but decided to take it again at this hour in order to be more objective. Part of my mind is asleep at 6 am.

In the first one, I got 83.2. In this one, I got 84.
I didn't remember the questions at all, as usual, so this simile results make me wonder. I do have dissociation but, do I have DID?

Should I go with the DES to my therapist after she denied me dissociating?
So many questions which answers I have to decide on...

Lucero wrote:I remember taking this quest last week, but decided to take it again at this hour in order to be more objective. Part of my mind is asleep at 6 am.

In the first one, I got 83.2. In this one, I got 84.
I didn't remember the questions at all, as usual, so this simile results make me wonder.

Lucero wrote:I know the feeling!

Lucero wrote:I do have dissociation but, do I have DID?

You have reason to get an expert assessment to answer that question.

Lucero wrote:Should I go with the DES to my therapist after she denied me dissociating?

I would say the answer depends on how strongly she denies your signs and symptoms. I would plan to take the DES to someone who can help, although not necessarily her. Can you find a more experienced therapist to consult? Cost and inconvenience doesn't matter much because it would be for just one or two sessions. That therapist could help you decide your next steps.

Una+ wrote:
I would say the answer depends on how strongly she denies your signs and symptoms. I would plan to take the DES to someone who can help, although not necessarily her. Can you find a more experienced therapist to consult? Cost and inconvenience doesn't matter much because it would be for just one or two sessions. That therapist could help you decide your next steps.

I believe the problem stems from how I, or whoever it is talking to the therapist, accept the words of the therapist as sacred, even if it goes against what we have thought thoroughly previously. Personally, I know I dissociate because I live it. However, we or me or he or she cannot express ourselves well enough to the professional. Curses.
I could write a bible with the behaviors that fit the criteria, but they would still be attributed to anxiety with this particular therapist. Pity, really. I should seek out a trauma specialist.
I was actually thinking of talking to someone else at least with this particular matter.

Thank you for your reply.

Lucero wrote:I should seek out a trauma specialist.

I agree! No psychotherapy client should have to be able to express themselves perfectly just to be heard and understood. A well qualified therapist will understand, from education and experience with other clients, what is going on with you.

I usually score around 29-30, depending on the day/how I interpret the questions.

I got 57. Maybe should let the others take it too. Wonder if the number changes.
Sally and Kitty

Just took it again today, after half a year; got 73. Last time it was 50-something.... wtf.

I got 72

I got 24. I can remember my score a year ago being well over 60.

That was the absolute bottom my score could have been though because I was extremely cautious about marking anything.

I guess I'm not to sure about how to use it. Does 50% mean that out of 14 hours I, for example, feel out of my body for 7 on most days or does it mean that in a fortnight I experienced the symptoms on half the days?

I'm not sure the scale can accurately measure both severity and frequency. :/

I definitely dissociate less these days but I know I dissociate for than non-clinical samples and yet I seem to have ranked myself roughly the same.

I got 49... Really surprising - I selected "never" on everything about severe amnesia (and other extreme things), but I had no clue that some of the other symptoms in the test had to do with DID
I was particularly surprised that the "realizing that you didn't catch anything that someone just said to you" could be DID-related. It happens to me a lot (if I saw people on a daily basis, it would be several times a day). And it's not just about speech - sometimes I "register" something, but only notice it much later (and when I notice it consciously, I remember that I registered it already earlier).

EDIT: although maybe with some things SPD could overlap with the milder DID symptoms...