Is this Amnesia related to DID/DDNOS?

Im currently about to start ddnos/DID investigation, But i aint sure if which one it is.
One thing that struck me was that i dont recall alot of daily events, like i can take my meds in the morning and then i go did i take the medication? And i cant remember if i did.
Also things like after ive eaten, i can get "did i turn off the stove? And i dont remember if i did either.

Is this dissociative amnesia, or is it just forgetfullness. Im sure it happens more times, especially on the personally switches that i forget my personal history, but im curious and want to know how does it present for you others with DID/DDNOS

zesdev wrote: "did i turn off the stove? And i dont remember if i did either.

Not at all dissuading you from exploring the possibility of a dissociative condition, but do you find yourself checking things a lot? Or having disturbing intrusive thoughts/idceas/impulses?

Snaga wrote:

zesdev wrote: "did i turn off the stove? And i dont remember if i did either.

Not at all dissuading you from exploring the possibility of a dissociative condition, but do you find yourself checking things a lot? Or having disturbing intrusive thoughts/idceas/impulses?

Yes it happens alot.

It *could be* micro-amnesia, but to me, the way you describe it, it sounds more like the issues with working memory and object permanence I have because of ADHD.

I saw in another post you say you have autism. With neurodivergent conditions, we're driven by stimulation, and our brains can very much decide something isn't interesting enough to be recalled.

I get that kind of forgetfulness the most with the action that end a "sequence" of actions or with daily easy actions. For example, cooking and making the dishes are a whole sequence of actions, which means I usually have issues to remember if I cleaned the dishes or not. Or even if I force myself to really take the time to close my door and pay attention to it, to the sounds, how it feels in my hand, etc. I forget 99% of the time if I have locked the door or not. Because, for my brain, it doesn't worth remembering.

With my object permanence issue, if I let a pan cooling aside, 99.9% of the time, I'll forget its existence after 3 seconds. It's not that I forget I have let it cool, if I'm able to remember the existence of the pan, I'll remember everything else, it's just "out of sight, out of mind". I have supplement meds of magnesium and melatonin to help with stress and sleep, it's been years I'm taking them, but I still very often forget they exist and I need to take them (or if I have taken them).

To be clear : I don't say you don't have DID or a dissociative condition. ND people tend to dissociate more than NT to cope, so having both is totally possible.

But given the diagnosis you already have, a diagnosis tool for DID might be the only thing which will accurately sort all of that.

I agree with Dwelt. I have both ADHD micro-amnesia and DID big amnesia, and they feel very different from each-other.

Dwelt described the ADHD micro ones so I won't repeat what she said.

The big amnesia for me are for example, when I feel I just "landed" in a situation and I need to go Sherlock Holmes on the situation, my surroundings, etc. to understand what is going on and how to properly respond to the situation. Or when I get hit by a train of remembrance of a past event and realize I had forgotten about it. Or when I sort through my stuff and realize that I have between my hands the proofs that some events did happen and I just, heck, I do not remember that, where is the memory file for that? Hello inside? Where is the forking memory file for that?

Sometimes the therapy sessions (or discussions I have with my boyfriend) are so intense I forget about them very quickly and I need to take notes before the memories fade forever.

Which is completely not the same thing as "I'll put this in the drawer for later use" and boom, out of sight out of mind, oppa ADHD style.


[ADHD style! Op, op op... oppa ADHD style!]

(I know I have a very basic sense of humor)

I have my 'rituals' so I don't forget things, but if I get distracted, which is a lot lately, I forget things. I mean, I'm better at remembering not to burn dinner than Beth is, but still I get distracted lately.

Thing is, I have had to try and explain to my T about the differences in my memory gaps. For instance, I keep music going almost all the time. If a song stops mid-way and I don't recall it having changed, I check the playlist to see if I missed something first. This happened while driving. I had to drive past a place where several Bad Things happened because of our normal route was under construction at the time and blocked off. I lost about six minutes when Beth took over fully. It's rare she does that. If I push my memory, I remember being in the inner world. One minute I'm panicking over being that close to the Bad Place, and the next I'm at my destination.

But at the same time, can I recall driving most days? Not really. I drive the same route every time I go to the store. Same patterns. Another example is 4pm every day I feed my cats and lock the front door. Same pattern every day. Though, weirdly, since Marci came in from the fog, I keep forgetting to lock the front door and only realizing that in the morning when I go to unlock the front door.

So...okay, what am I saying? It can take a bit of examining your patterns and memories to see what is what. I have huge gaps in my memory too. There's a two year period of time I almost can't remember at all.