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dreamdropsystem · 2 years
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frankiesaysrelaxx · 5 months
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It suddenly occurred to me that people post pictures of themselves on this website too.
Always tired.
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moonbearblue · 1 year
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What is Unspecified Dissociative Disorder?
I am diagnosed with this right now instead of DID and I see very little explanation of it online anywhere so I want to parrot what my therapist told me. (I am in the US and speaking specifically about the DSM and why these are diagnosed in the US. I am not sure if it is the same elsewhere.) First off, about unspecified diagnoses. My therapist said that in her training for the DSM 5 they are taught to diagnose unspecified disorders mostly as a stand in diagnosis. Meaning a diagnosis that is put down until a specific diagnosis can be made. They are diagnosed typically when there is obvious signs of a certain kind of mental illness but for whatever reason they are unable to have enough info to diagnose what it specifically is at that time. This is often very useful because you can still bill insurance with them to cover the same treatment any specified diagnosis would. As well as still being covered under ADA protections and the ability to get accommodations for jobs or school.
Unspecified dissociative disorder is commonly diagnosed before a diagnosis of OSDD or DID is made. It is also diagnosed in other situations in people without alters before a diagnosis of a different dissociative disorder is made. Not everyone with this diagnosis is a system. Because of how long a diagnosis of any dissociative disorder can take, someone may have this diagnosis for a long time. Some systems may choose not to have their records changed to a diagnosis of OSDD or DID for whatever reason even after further testing. Some systems who were originally diagnosed with this may resonate with UDD as a label more than DID or OSDD so they may consider themselves a UDD system and there is nothing wrong with that as it does not effect treatment in any way. Although almost anyone with alters will fall under the label of DID or OSDD because of how broad the OSDD-1 category is in the DSM-5. A lot of people think of the old criteria from the DSM-4 for DDNOS which was slightly different than OSDD in the DSM-5 and less broad. (The DDNOS diagnosis criteria is also where OSDD-1a and OSDD-1b comes from. It is not an actual part of the DSM criteria for OSDD 1 anymore but can be a helpful distinction.)
DSM-5 criteria for OSDD-1
Chronic and recurrent syndromes of mixed dissociative symptoms: This category includes identity disturbance associated with less-than-marked discontinuities in sense of self and agency, or alterations of identity or episodes of possession in an individual who reports no dissociative amnesia.
DSM-4 TR criteria for DDNOS-1
Clinical presentations similar to Dissociative Identity Disorder that fail to meet the full criteria for the disorder. Examples include presentations which a) there are not two or more distinct personality states, or b) amnesia for important personal information does not occur.
So if someone gets the diagnosis of UDD it will at some point, if further testing is done, likely be changed to DID or OSDD if they want it to be.
Originally in older editions of the DSM both OSDD and UDD did not exist. DDNOS was in the place of both diagnoses and became OSDD and UDD in the DSM-5 in 2013. Some systems who were diagnosed with DDNOS before then still use it as a label instead of OSDD.
In the DSM-5 there are no not otherwise specified diagnoses left anymore and they were all changed to either unspecified or other specified.
My therapist has diagnosed me with UDD for the time being because she is not a specialist in dissociative disorders. She does not have the amount of materials to test me with that a specialist or psychologist may have. She feels it would do me the most good to be diagnosed with this since the the treatment of OSDD and DID is the same and then get a more accurate diagnosis later. I can also use my UDD diagnosis to get the accommodations I need in college in the meantime. She is treating me for DID and OSDD but I will likely get a diagnosis of DID at some point I think as we definitely have amnesia. I have no idea how long it will take to find and get in with a specialist or if I will have a diagnosis of UDD for a long time but I wanted to share what I have learned. I may add more to this post later.
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evilsystem · 3 months
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being immortal and having DID must be crazy. yeah our boy Carlos hasn't fronted in 300 years and just woke up to the sound of Uptown Funk and started screaming
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actuallyverynormalbtw · 3 months
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realizing youre Real is .weird,,
like you can exist for Years??? never noticing??? never thinking about Yourself. assuming you are the host, or assuming you are another alter.
it is WEIRD to sit there with your morning coffee, having a conversation, and just suddenly the stars align . and you realize how different you are from "you" . you realize you werent "you", you were actually YOU the whole time.
I KNOW THIS DOESNT MAKE SENSE BUT I HOPE SOMEONE GETS IT
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mintysystem · 2 months
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Shout out to systems who cant get diagnosed. Shout out to systems who split easily. Shout out to systems with high introject counts. Shout out to complex systems. Shout out to systems with mostly littles. Shout out to systems with small alter counts. Shout out to systems who dont want to get diagnosed cause they dont want it on their record. Shout out to systems with nonhuman alters. Shout out to systems
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electricbloodflow · 4 months
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DID is simultaneously the most subtle, ambiguous disorder while also being the most intense, all-encompassing, extremely-personal-because-it-affects-fundamental-perceptions-like-memory-and-identity-at-all-hours-of-the-day disorder of all time.
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soiarsys · 1 month
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some alters hold trauma/memories that they didn’t exist to experience / didn’t front during.
some alters have amnesia for moments they were there for.
like that’s really common. you have a dissociative disorder. you aren’t faking if you remember something you didn’t front for and you aren’t faking if you forgot something that you yourself literally did. our brains are trying to protect us. sometimes it does a good job with the amnesia thing and often times it doesn’t. there’s no real way to make amnesia convenient. like a lot of systems only get amnesia from switches, but a lot of us forget the day prior even if no switch occurred.
and although this post is about amnesiac systems, you’re valid if you don’t have amnesia either, or not very much. everyone is different. every system is different.
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thundersyst3m · 1 month
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How to support your local DID system:
Give them money
Give them money
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valcksys · 2 months
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bruh i hate when you’re blurry and you feel like your identity is right on the tip of your tongue and you just can’t figure it out but you’re so close it’s like edging for DID
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macchiatosys · 4 months
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plural culture is some alters oversharing, while the others refuse to even share their names
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dreamdropsystem · 1 year
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me in a cute fit~~ - KUROMI
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polyfragmentdid · 4 months
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Shout out to the systems still living in traumatizing situations or with their abusers. Wish us all luck.
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moonbearblue · 1 year
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OCD vs DID
For those who have self diagnosed with DID take care to make sure you are not misunderstanding OCD symptoms as DID/OSDD. When I was diagnosed with UDD my therapist made sure it wasn't just a symptom of my OCD. OCD can sometimes cause extreme focusing and preoccupation with categorizing yourself, possibly even to the point of thinking you have parts even when you do not. If you are extremely focused on categorizing yourself to the point that it distracts you from daily life it may be an OCD thing not a DID thing. This may also manifest as an extreme preoccupation with categorizing your every action with many different mental illnesses. (Also not everyone with multiple mental illnesses is doing this as many many different things are co-morbid) If you do have OCD not DID, treating it like DID could seriously harm you.
This is not a post trying to say that all self diagnosed systems just have OCD or something but I did know someone who thought they had OSDD and it turned out they had bad untreated OCD.
If you have a lot of symptoms of dissocation and or amnesia I wouldn't worry too much about this. They had no other symptoms of OSDD except for supposed parts and the more they focused on separating and acknowledging these parts the worse they felt instead of better. By the time a therapist they were going to realized what was going on they were extremely disconnected from their sense of self and having a lot of other OCD symptoms they didn't even notice. I just want to spread knowledge of this so maybe someone else who is having OCD symptoms instead of DID will figure it out and get the help they need.
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thehermitcollective · 5 months
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littlest-bugz · 1 month
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When you’re mid sentence and suddenly forget literally everything you were talking about
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