DID without voices

Floralie wrote:It doesn't really matter what the definitions are in the end, because all people with parts do have same thing, some with higher dissociative walls than others.

Yes--this is really the bottom line. Also, some with more developed alters than others (which would be how OSDD 1a is defined).

I think you can tie your brain up in a knot trying to figure out how to apply the written criteria to what actually happens inside people, with little to gain from it.

I also think that having one's feelings and experiences invalidated as a child makes us more sensitive to wanting to get things right and not be accused of making something up, or having something we don't have. There is a parallel in the very existence of DID as an illness being invalidated by some mental health professionals.

Floralie wrote:Should have read it better.. it was AMERICAN ICD-10, "other international versions of ICD-10 may differ". I'd need the one used in Northern Europe. I didn't know there are different ICD-10 versions too.

I didn't know this either. ICD means International Classification of Diseases. How can you have an American ICD?

Alwaysrachel wrote:I can’t tell you how relieving it is to hear your responses. The thought of someday understanding all this now feels closer and that gives me a lot of hope.

Hey Alwaysrachel,

Yeah this forum helped us a whole lot, still does. We hope you'll stick around. Its good to have a place we can all talk about this sort of stuff, share experiences and compare notes and whatever, with other folks dealing with similar stuff.

Viola

Alwaysrachel wrote:Is it possible to have DID without hearing voices? My mood can change in an instant, almost intrusively. I often go into a dissociative trance when triggered and will completely change my personality briefly
with my therapist whilst trying to get out of it, being very jovial and laughing, before being ‘normal’ again. I have around 5 memories prior to the age of 13 but that’s it. I thought I had dissociative amnesia with depersonalisation but I’m wondering if there is something else.

Thanks

I generally DON'T... I have a few that I can hear periodically, one quite often, but mostly this is SINCE I've become aware of being DID... for most of my life (40 years), I was unaware of the "voices" and they felt almost like thoughts but odd... like imagination but more surreal... and never really like "voices" and certainly not something I attributed to anything more than "vivid imagination"...

MOST of the others I can't hear even now, knowing... but we're working on that. It would be helpful, IMHO, to have that kind of communication and being able to hear them and act accordingly (if need be).

But as others have said, it's NOT essential or a "critical clue" kind of thing.