Memory gaps

Hello. My psychiatrist believes I have psychosis, because I have no memory gaps. She says they must last for at least three hours. However, there are time when the one personality does not remember what another one does. Is this memory gap?

When one personality does not remember what another had done = a memory gap. OB

Yeah if one remembers stuff but another doesn't, that's amnesia.

Where does the 'minimum 3 hours' stuff come from? That doesn't seem right.

And the 'criteria' for DID doesn't even specify that memory problems have to be in the present. Having amnesia for stuff like childhood or other past events is enough to fit the criteria.

Does this psychiatrist have any training in dealing with dissociative disorders?

Arin

VioletFlux wrote:
Does this psychiatrist have any training in dealing with dissociative disorders?

Arin

I dont know. I have not asked her.

Amnesia is never there for whole system, someone remembers everything that's important. Missing childhood memories are somewhere in the system, so is all missing time in the present. Someone was out then and did something. When dx criteria says there needs to be amnesia, it does not mean from the whole system, it means amnesia between parts.

DID without amnesia = OSDD1b. Dissociation can not turn to be psychotic just because time isn't missing. They are two completely different things, and missing time will not tell which one it is. There are other dissociation disorders as well without amnesia, and they still are dissociative, because you do not define psychosis based on memory.

If your psychiatrist can not tell what's the difference between dissociative and psychotic symptom, they are not capable of doing diagnostics on either type of conditions.

amnesic Did is a Dx that your doctor needs to study up on. I am not fully knowledgeable on this, but I have been this way since a very small child, and now at 69 yrs old I can tell you it could be 1 minute, hour, day or even years. There may be times when you will get memories back from alters or you may never know. Sorry to be so blunt but for past 3 years have found and lived so much of this.
I think what it boils down to is what do you think and believe. Trust is the most important issue between you and T, try to be open, truthful and tell your T others have said different then what they have said, maybe they will look into it more.
Bill