Could I have DID?

I'm 18 and have OCD. Basically I starting worrying about the possibility of having DID about 5 months ago, then I stopped worrying and now everything has resurfaced again. I've noticed that for some weird reason I'm starting to use "we" instead of "I" and I don't know why. I don't have any serious memory loss, the only things that I can't remember are pretty menial tasks like having a shower or taking tablets. Surely this isn't the same level of memory loss as DID? I often have an intrusive judgemental part of myself that is my own voice in my head. I've always thought that this was just OCD intrusive thoughts. I don't feel like its an external body. This is why I don't understand why I'm using "we". Could this be an indicator that I have DID? Can the use of "we" indicate that there is another personality within myself that I don't know about? Or is the use of "we" for the sole purpose of recognizing and knowing that there is another personality after diagnosis/acceptance?

ocdlfc wrote:I'm 18 and have OCD. Basically I starting worrying about the possibility of having DID about 5 months ago, then I stopped worrying and now everything has resurfaced again. I've noticed that for some weird reason I'm starting to use "we" instead of "I" and I don't know why. I don't have any serious memory loss, the only things that I can't remember are pretty menial tasks like having a shower or taking tablets. Surely this isn't the same level of memory loss as DID? I often have an intrusive judgemental part of myself that is my own voice in my head. I've always thought that this was just OCD intrusive thoughts. I don't feel like its an external body. This is why I don't understand why I'm using "we". Could this be an indicator that I have DID? Can the use of "we" indicate that there is another personality within myself that I don't know about? Or is the use of "we" for the sole purpose of recognizing and knowing that there is another personality after diagnosis/acceptance?

Hi ocdlfc,
your email is very informative to me. I am in the same process of finding out, or maybe accepting that possibility...having DID. i do use the we...because there is that constant discussion within, but until a couple of months ago...i had never thought of DID. i am always busy inside, so it happens very often, that i do not register what i am doing...so there is no recalling...(memory loss?)
the judgemental i totally have it, but try to fight it back... now i wonder if that could be OCD....even though i have been seeing a psych a couple of years, now i am beginning to wonder about other things. You analize yourself pretty nicely....i am sure that will help, either way.

Please don't torture yourself with trying to guess. When in doubt, seek out a qualified professional and request a diagnostic evaluation. There are several high-quality interview tools for diagnosing dissociative disorders that a professional would use. Among them, the two I recommend most often are the SCID-D and the MID. The DDIS is useful too. You can get started by taking the Dissociative Experiences Scale (DES), a very easy self-administered screening test.

Thanks for the replies, I guess it could just be OCD. I always try to rationalise my use of "we". Eg. sometimes I use it when I'm with a group of friends, and I always rationalise and think to myself that I'm referring to me and my friends, even if it makes no sense. For example, last week I stopped to tie my shoe laces when I was with my friends, and I went, "we may as well tie both". Also, I've come to the conclusion that I do mildly dissociate when doing simple tasks that don't require any thought, like having a shower. I've never had serious dissociation though.

Una, sometimes it is not so simple. My psych has stopped contact with me. i do not know yet if it is because of health reasons...it has happened before. he speaks my language and i live in a foreign country. i have to tell you, that i do not dare to walk into that terrain yet, when we tried to touch the theme, pretty scarry things happened. So i am trying to see things from different perspectives and work around it. I stopped the medication, which my psych and I had talked about that possibility a couple of times, but it is not going very good. I wake up very nervous, anxious, my thoughts are many and simultaneous, i try to get hold of myself. and take one thing at a time.

Besides the fact that when i go to the DID site, i do not relate very much, because i have not seen the we as different people than myself, besides the other presence i found out a couple of months ago. I am afraid to walk into that realm without understanding other areas about me. it is a bit overwhelming to me at this moment.

a couple of years ago, a psych in my country of origin, said to me that i had generalized anxiety, he prescribed antideppressives. bad choice! the anger was at the door, i became almost violent, i had to stop it.....so here i am, taking one day at a time.

i have gone through the periods of taking the tests....but i have a bit of everything, and the the answers change, i can be one thing or the other.... a little mess, common to my times of crisis? or maybe my winter personality.
my torture is not to know, but it can happen so easily to be misdiagnosed too. i told you that my psych has given me for a year antipsychotics, and a couple of months ago, he said; we have worked with one hypothesis, maybe we need to consider others.....they do not know, sometimes the grey areas are too wide. i think

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ocdlfc wrote:Thanks for the replies, I guess it could just be OCD. I always try to rationalise my use of "we". Eg. sometimes I use it when I'm with a group of friends, and I always rationalise and think to myself that I'm referring to me and my friends, even if it makes no sense. For example, last week I stopped to tie my shoe laces when I was with my friends, and I went, "we may as well tie both". Also, I've come to the conclusion that I do mildly dissociate when doing simple tasks that don't require any thought, like having a shower. I've never had serious dissociation though.

me too! it is like if I have to guide myself through the most simple things, over and over again. LIke if every time, was the first time. It has been so my whole life and i did not minded until i became aware of it.