Check in: Multidimensional Inventory of Dissociation

nonchalant wrote:I just had this scored. Its "diagnostic impressions" were PTSD, Somatization Disorder, and DID. Needless to say, I'm kind of shocked.

That is a common result for readers of this DID Forum. Situation normal.

Have you had a session with your therapist to go over the results? The results are not just the line item diagnostic labels above, but also graphs comparing your results to thousands of others. There is a whole long manual for the therapist about interpretation of the results, that goes into questions clients often have about the MID, how it works and whether they answered the questions correctly and other issues. This post-report discussion tends to be reassuring.

Not yet...part of me is afraid too. I feel like I lied on the test. Like, I didn't try to lie or anything, but I'm feeling fine now, so maybe I've always been fine and I just made up the symptoms on the test. It sounds like crazy denial talk, but I'm legitimately concerned that any interview or processing I did would end with them being like "yup, you definitely lied! get out of my office."

That's actually part of my problem, I guess. Swinging back and forth from stable and functional to anxious and depressed at the drop of a hat. It makes convincing anyone that I have problems a difficult task.

Edit: Also, my mean scores are a lot lower than the average DID diagnosis, so I do think the program said DID on technicality rather than actual evidence. If I had to guess, I'd say DDNOS-1 fits my symptoms the best, though I also think there's a chance that they're just a symptom of a different diagnosis.

nonchalant wrote:It sounds like crazy denial talk, but I'm legitimately concerned that any interview or processing I did would end with them being like "yup, you definitely lied! get out of my office."

This is totally normal denial talk. I've been there, done that, know the feeling. So have many others here. It is a symptom of toxic shame. You are anticipating invalidation and humiliation just like your family of origin used to heap on you.

nonchalant wrote:Also, my mean scores are a lot lower than the average DID diagnosis

Mean scores on which scales?

My advice? Wait for the debriefing session. See the full MID report, including graphs. Then decide.

Are there free online assessments? Can you post the links? I am curious about how my 'before' and 'after' results differ...

niva wrote:Are there free online assessments? Can you post the links? I am curious about how my 'before' and 'after' results differ...

The only assessment tool for dissociative symptoms that is free and online, with automated scoring, is the Dissociative Experiences Scale. See link below.

There are many other assessment tools for dissociative symptoms and related issues, and some of these tools can be obtained online and scored by hand. The scoring often is complicated, though, and interpretation of the results also is fairly technical. Search the DID Forum for threads about them.

DID Forum: Dissociative Experiences Scale

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Una+ wrote:This post is an update on my diagnosis using the MID. Now that I have more internal communication and have discovered more recent lost time, based on the MID my diagnosis is now DID (not DDNOS-1), PTSD, and Somatoform Disorder. I totally agree. The PTSD symptoms (flashbacks) and somatoform symptoms (recurrent pain without organic cause) are now mostly gone, so that leaves only the DID but my level of distress is now low and going lower. I can see on the horizon a time when all these valid diagnoses will no longer apply. Whether we reach full fusion or not, we are going to be a-okay!

I am so happy for you
N has flashbacks & recurrent unexplained pain. Now I understand more. I thought for awhile that the pain was for attention. Ibuprophen never helped her. But I realized that it must be part of a flashback or something to that effect. It's real pain and stresses her.
I want you to know just how much you have helped me and I thank you for it

As of June 2016, the following link to the MID self-report form still works. It is Appendix 3 from the book Rebuilding Shattered Lives: Treating Complex PTSD and Dissociative Disorders, Second Edition, by James A. Chu, MD, Copyright 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

To use it, you print it out, mark it up, and pass it to someone who can score it for you. This can take about 30 minutes.

The person who does the scoring is expected to prepare a written report, to help frame and explain the results. This is several hours of work that requires some training and experience. If the person has not done this particular report before, it can take them many hours to figure out how to work the spreadsheet scoring program, access all the results, read the manual, and compose the report. So please be respectful, patient, and thank them for their hard work on your behalf.

Wiley.com: Rebuilding Shattered Lives: Treating Complex PTSD and Dissociative Disorders
Wiley.com: Appendix 3: The Multidimensional Inventory of Dissociation (MID)

Do you know how you find someone that can score this? I'm on the US and would be interested in what my results say but don't want to push it down my t's throat as if I an trying to say "here, this is the problem and you didn't figure it out" (i have issues obviously...lol)

confusedptsd wrote:Do you know how you find someone that can score this? I'm on the US

Here are some suggestions. You can give it to your T and point out where the instructions say your T can send it to Paul Dell for scoring. (This is what I did, and with support from Dr. Dell my T worked out how to score it.) Or you can use the "Find a Therapist" search tool on the ISSTD website[1] to find a member relatively near you and consult them. Or you can search PubMed[2] to find recent articles that mention the MID in their abstract, find one with an author "near" you and contact the author.

These suggestions apply regardless of where in the world you are; they are not specific to the USA.

[1] http://www.isst-d.org/default.asp?contentID=18
[2] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed

Revisiting this old topic...

Back in January, older Violet downloaded the MID pdf and filled it out. She or teen Violet gave it to our (former) T along with some pages from the article that sort of explained it. Asked our T to get it scored.

Of course, our T did absolutely nothing with it. Another of the reasons she's now our former T.

Anyways, just wondering if in the 2 years since the last post on here, are there any new options as far as getting this scored? Even if we had to pay a fee, somewhere we could have it done online would be fine.

FWIW we've been through the ISSTD site and there's nobody anywhere close to us who's taking new clients. Best we've got right now is we're evaluating a couple social workers with DID experience, to be our new T but we're told that social workers cannot give a diagnosis so they won't be able to score the MID either.

Also, I just went over what V1 had filled out in January, and it was interesting to see how things have changed for us since then. A few areas have definitely improved: We have less of the 'angry voices telling us to hurt ourselves / calling us names' (since V2 worked with Charlie to help him go from persecutor to protector) and less of the blackouts/lost time sorts of things.

But some areas are 'worse': More of the switches, being aware of other parts, other parts doing things, being aware of child parts, child voices, etc etc. So basically overall, more communication & awareness, less bad things.

Viola