Can you have DID without attachment issues?

Purpleunicorn wrote:I've been thinking about my other relationships, and with my friends i switch between leaning on them to help, and constantly worrying I've upset or disappointed them or dragging them down, so I put in too much effort and sometimes make myself ill at their benefit. Then, if something bad happens, I completely blame myself, or if we don't live near each other, I can't get back in contact and we fall out. With romantic relationships, I find it really hard to actually get to the point where I want a relationship with a person, and my ex was manipulative and isolated me from my friends, and I'd just try and make him happy. I guess putting that all together probably doesn't look great, and probably shows I have attachment issues.
Thanks guys, all your messages really helped, sorry I haven't quoted anyone, I'm still new to all this XD but yeah, thanks

You can with therapy, I had ten years of therapy all together of different types but none were DID specific. Even so I managed to develop confidence and independence. The confidence may have been 7 confidence classes I took. I definitely developed the independence from family in psychotherapy. So you can develop these.

I realised recently I still don't have resilience. I have alters who when they are traumatized take a rest. So whenever anything has happened whoever dealt with it takes a rest and another parts fronts instead.

But the other things Johnny-Jack mentioned I did develop. I still have a part with anxiety issues who if is outside the home has panic attacks but other parts benefitted from the work I did on "myself" That's how I saw it at the time. I did alot of work on myself and in many ways it helped. And that was without knowing what was "wrong" with me for the first 7 or 8 years. So you know you have DID and can seek specific therapy so it ought to be better. Much luck.