News of Dissociative Disorders

:( I was diagnosed with DID and PTSD almost 7 months ago, and I am still learning to live with it. I was wondering if other people with this diagnoses has felt lightheaded on occasion. It seems lately I feel really light like a feather and sometimes feel lightheaded when I change eye views. Seems like I can't even focus sometimes, on more than one occasion it ...

How many alters are usual for a person with D.I.D.?
Is it possible to only have one (therefore 2 personalitys total)?

A year ago to this month I began seeing a psychiatrist for the first time in my life. I didn't know what to expect, except that I knew I had a problem. My guess then would have been depression, as those close to me guessed the same. By the end of my 1st meeting with my new psychiatrist he told me he sees symptoms of dissociative disorder. I didnt even know what that was when ...

I don’t really know what’s wrong, but I have done some research and this almost sounds right… I was hoping maybe someone could tell me if it sounds like DID. Or if I am just crazy.

I can’t remember my childhood. It’s almost completely blacked out. But nothing bad happened that I know of. We (me and my family) went to Disney world when I was 13 and I can’t remember the trip. I spend ...

A little brutally honest but here it goes...

For about 15 years (I'm a 34 year old female) I've been occasionally having weird things happen after I've had a few drinks. Okay, wait, I know this isn't an alcohol forum -- not so many drinks that would necessarily render one purely silly, but enough to become, well, relaxed. And firstly, I suspect something really bad happened to me when I was a child, and I ...

Can anyone tell me what critria does a person need to meet to be diagnoised with DID/MPD? The reason I ask is that I'm agoraphobic and have been treated for this problem on/off for the last 20 plus years with little or no lasting success. Now you may think I'm in the wrong forum but a thought passed my mind that possibly I have a "form" of DID/MPD. Please bare with me on this one. ...

I think the idea that a male 'alter' in someone with DID is necessarily bad or aggressive isnt' always so, nor that its necessarily associated with sexual abuse only. Someone could grow up with a very masculine mother with pathological hatred of girls in which its not safe to be female. In my case my male 'character' was based on a civil rights leader, MArtin Luther King. Imagine growing up like a Jew under Hitler ...

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I am in therapy right now. This year I was in and out of psychiatric wards 3 times. Some of the professionals have been insistent that I have a dissociative identity disorder. My therapist does not believe they exist. I could use a second opinion from people going through this...

I was raped when I was 9 years old. I lost 4 1/2 years after that where nothing is available to me. I lost ...

Hello all, (funny title hey lol) Anyway I split from an ex boyfriend but I know he still contacts me through msn. I do not have concrete evidence because under a different hot mail address. This sounds quite taboo n freaky maybe to some people, anyway cut a long story short, he speaks to me through msn but pretends to be someone else, I know for a fact it is him because he comes out ...

My girlfriend told me she has DID. I am totally ok with this and find it very interesting. What concerns me though is her abilty to introduce me to her alters. She wrote me an email and formally indroduced me to her alter then allowed her alter to finnish this email. I never realized that DID was voluntary. Can many people with DID do this?