Filling out Forms.

I hate filling out forms. I dissociate a lot when doing it. Even though I think that forms are fundamentally quite easy to do the way in which they are worded makes them seem intimidating and considering I'm having issues with my ability to read and write at the moment it's even more intimidating.
There's one thing I always stumble on though and that's when it asks about any conditions I suffer from or have had suffered from in the past. I'm currently changing some details on my drivers license and it gives a list of conditions one of which is "Serious psychiatric illness of mental ill health". Now I was going to tick no to this but it says "Have you told us about this condition before" and I think when I first applied for my license I stated I did have a mental health issue as at the time I was diagnosed as having psychosis.

The annoying this is I can't remember if I did or I didn't. I'm sure I did but a lot of my memories are usually dreamed up. If I tick no and it turns out I originally put yes I can be fined £1000 for giving false information or with holding information. Grrr...I hate my memory. I hate filling out forms. I hate feeling confused and helpless.

Out of curiosity when you are asked to state any mental health conditions do you state you have DID? Do you consider DID to be a mental illness or something that would effect your mental capacities or abilities? Or do you not view it as being an "illness"?

Frank_Darko wrote:Out of curiosity when you are asked to state any mental health conditions do you state you have DID? Do you consider DID to be a mental illness or something that would effect your mental capacities or abilities? Or do you not view it as being an "illness"?

When it comes to forms and other paperwork, it doesn't matter what you think or what you consider something to be. It matters what THEY think and what THEY consider something to be. To them, DID is a mental condition/disorder, and it does have the possibility of affecting mental capacities and abilities, and it should be listed as such.

If you don't fill out the paperwork according to THEIR terms, they won't get all the information they need to properly process your paperwork, and that will risk them not being able to properly help you.

We state our official diagnoses, which includes a "Possible DID" diagnosis, and then we state that we believe we need to be re-evaluated, or we put the "Possible" part in parenthesis, depending on the paperwork and what it's for. We hate short-selling ourselves like that, but we must be honest with what is recorded on our official file.

We do not view DID as an illness, nor a disorder. It is at least a condition, though, that you really can't argue. As far as how we, personally, view DID, however, we view it as a simple quirk. Something that is slightly different from "the norm", but that's it.


-A mixture of us(?)