Dissociative Experiences Scale

We got 80
Think I should be slightly worried!

97 kind of dissapointing
we only got diagnoised 9 months ago so I guess were a work in progress my T wanted me to take it the first time,but I said NO, but then she was like its not nessciary now I think I know whats going on here!
ha ha with a score like this probeby all my immediate friends and family do to,and the grocer up the street!!

I just got my (clearly definately not DID) partner to take it and he scored 7!

I thought my score was probably within the normal range, may have to rethink that!

53......

lifeontheinside wrote:97 kind of dissapointing

..97?! Holy s**t, dude. You win.

win what? this isn't any fun! i wish i could be around without having to be so confused all the time

I scored freakin high. thank you for posting. it gave me insight into experiences i did not really know were related to my did.

Katariina wrote:win what? this isn't any fun! i wish i could be around without having to be so confused all the time

Sorry.

I was in the 90s too Katariina. I was just too shy to say it. Makes me think that I have been fooling myself a little thinking noone notices. I guess the only one whose not noticing anything is me. Bleargh.

I got a 36...around what I expected, since a) it's hard for me to keep track of exactly how much of the time I experience those symptoms and b) most of the time, my others stay behind a kind of wall inside my brain and don't affect me in extreme dissociative ways.

While I think it's great that this tool exists, I think it's a bit flawed. For one, it seems to focus more on amnesia and the moderate to extreme traits of depersonalization and derealization, so that those with more severe disorders are more likely to be picked up on than those with more subtle variants. Also, it doesn't allow for variations on the experiences in question, or ask for their severity; just their frequency. I found myself saying "Technically yes/no, but..." many times while taking it, which was frustrating. Obviously a screening tool is supposed to look for the major signs, but dissociation is so personal and so varied that someone who experiences it in one way might not identify with the 'classic' symptoms screened for by the DES.

"The Stranger in the Mirror" has a really good sample of the SCID-D in it that hits many more bases than the DES, if anyone is interested in that. I've been trying to figure out how to properly be administered that test for a while....though considering my therapist has yet to learn that I have even mild problems with dissociation, it's not likely to be any time soon.