Dissociative Experiences Scale

84...

It was mid 50's but as I understood the questions better and took the scaled test it changed. there was a lot of stuff I put to spacing or just me, but in retrospect were symptoms described.

I scored 85.

Number 6 explains why I keep bumping into a lady with red hair who acts really friendly and asks about my pets when I go to the local shops.

Interesting. I suspect that I have Borderline PD. My pdoc suspects Schizoaffective which I believe is wrong (although I can identify with many parts of Bipolar). My score was 48.

mostlyghostly wrote:I suspect that I have Borderline PD. My pdoc suspects Schizoaffective which I believe is wrong (although I can identify with many parts of Bipolar).

Borderline personality disorder, bipolar (a mood disorder), and schizoaffective (which is generally defined as a combination of schizophrenia and bipolar) are in the differential diagnosis of DID. That is, some symptoms of DID on their surface can look like symptoms of these other conditions and so a competent diagnostic evaluation involves exploring those diagnoses and trying to rule them out.

Una+ wrote:

mostlyghostly wrote:I suspect that I have Borderline PD. My pdoc suspects Schizoaffective which I believe is wrong (although I can identify with many parts of Bipolar).

Borderline personality disorder, bipolar (a mood disorder), and schizoaffective (which is generally defined as a combination of schizophrenia and bipolar) are in the differential diagnosis of DID. That is, some symptoms of DID on their surface can look like symptoms of these other conditions and so a competent diagnostic evaluation involves exploring those diagnoses and trying to rule them out.

Yeah, I think it's complicated because I did experience a lot of trauma growing up, my father was extremely abusive in multiple ways, and my mother was just concerned with her own well-being. However, mental illness also runs rampant in my family tree. I suspect I have both trauma problems and mental illness problems, which probably feed into each other. It just depends on who I am seeing. Psychologists tend to focus very hard on my trauma and believe that everything is trauma-related. Psychiatrists tend to blame everything on mental illness and want to medicate it all away. It's tough to get both sides treated together.

I do suspect I have at least some dissociative qualities, though. I cannot remember hardly any emotion from the traumatic events / abuse in my childhood, but as an adult I often have very strong memories, emotions and thoughts out of nowhere, and have gone as far as to describe it as feeling like I am demon possessed at times. If I had alters they would all be very disturbed, angry ones, heh.

71... didn't think ide score that high as I've no blackouts or amnesia. I do have memory gaps but thats repressed trauma from yrs ago... I think

I got 77. Most of those questions seems like dissociating questions.. Like depersonalisation and all that stuff.. Not DID, but I'm not a professional that's studied this kind of stuff for years, so what do I know lol

My head hurts and I'm dissociating as all f***

Hope you guys are doing well!

I got a 61. I know I've scored lower, like hi 40's, and I think I've scored higher, but don't remember. Every time I take it though I find myself frustrated with the vagueness of the questions and don't know how to quite answer. Specifically if it's supposed to be between 0% of the time to 100% of the time but the question is framed as a some people "sometimes" have _____ experience, than the 100% of the time is out the window, because it's already stated in the question that it's not all the time but "some of the time." What do you do with that? I just rank how I emotionally feel about the question and usually double check with anyone else that will give me feedback, which is pretty much any of the questions.

So for example.
"Some people sometimes find that they hear voices inside their head that tell them to do things or comment on things that they are doing."

That to me sounds like a yes or no question. Not a 70% of the time I "sometimes" hear voices that comment on what I'm doing.

Any clarification? I always feel a little frustrated during the test and feel like I'm doing it wrong.

I find the DES useful for tracking my own recovery. My first score, in 2011, was in the 40's. My highest score ever, in 2012 when internal communication really got going, was in the 60's. In 2013, with some key fusions achieved, the score went down. Now, in 2016, it is under 10. Currently most of my (few) symptoms reflect co-consciousness: internal communications and the occasional identity alteration in response to my environment. I am not experiencing depersonalization, derealization, or new amnesia.

How about you?

estuary,

I think the questions are deliberately phrased in that way so people do not feel self conscious answering positively. the phrase it like some people do x, y, z. so ur more comfortable to be like oh I do that...sometimes too. and then you just guesstimate how often.

where as if the question was like "do you hear voices inside your head" i think people are LESS likely to be like.. oh yeah.

don't get hemmed up in the phrasing. just try to guestimate...
70% of the time there are internal convos.
10% of the time I find things I don't remember buying
etc......

thing is.... I feel like it mostly measures amnesia. but u don't remember what u don't remember so how the fudgelets do i answer accurately?

I usually score in the 40s to 50s.

haven't taken in a while tho. perhaps I shall.