IDeerInHeadlightsI wrote:my psychiatric disorder always remains a personality disorder but it never seems to stick to one type.
That's what I realized. The best way I can describe it is: at one extreme "mixed" means [almost] all the traits of [almost] all the disorders existing together simultaneously. Like a tossed salad. At the opposite extreme, it's like MPD/DID (as it's been characterized in media, at least): distinctly disordered personalities. It's somewhere between those two. It's not a constant medley of traits. Nor is it detached "people" in me either. It's something in between. It's almost DID/MPD "instances" of myself, each disordered one way or another; unique that way. But, not very disassociated. It's more like a person "not normal" in different ways that seem like different people.
Another way I describe it is like one of those faceted mirror balls from the disco era. If I were just a disordered smooth, polished mirror ball, it would be the same disorder as I spin. I'd express it to everyone direct the same way. But, it's like *facets* that, one points this way, one that way; one reflects light with a red ting, the other blue. (One has a scratch. The other doesn't. One's missing, etc.). It's not so fractured that it's different balls. But, it's not "just one" in the way it's commonly understood. It's like the traits arise differently, but grouped together consistently enough (each way) that it can seem like a different person.