Multiple Personalities Support Group

I have been thinking along the same lines lately. I have a job to return to in a month, however my problem is that I always start to what I call assimulate when I'm working. My mind starts to create other identities and I take on other peoples characteristics in order to fit in. I don't want to be like that anymore, so I guess I would say that DID is a form of disablement in my opinion

I don't usually feel that the DID alone makes me disabled. I think that the severe depression, anxiety and PTSD that comes along with it causes more issues than the DID alone. It's only when we're triggered that we switch in public, and we're triggered because of the PTSD. Most of the time if we have to work, the alter who is best at that job, will take over and do it without too many issues. Unless there's a trigger, usually we get through just fine.
But, then again, there are times when things are going on inside the system (alters changing roles, hosts changing, things like that, even changes to the physical environment inside - we recently had a complete makeover to make our place more open and welcoming to younger alters). When this is happening, everything is a mess and at those times, yes, we definately feel disabled because of the DID.

yes i feel very disabled because of DID, and i hate it! i want to be able to work and be me on the floor, whatever me means... and do what i actually CAN do! cause some of the alters cant do it, and im on the inside watching them screw up thing for me. and i get fired or am too afraid or tired to keep coming back.
and i also take on characteristics from others, so i lose myself even more, and create another 'sideline'.
it really frustrates me!
just recently i have been disabled. not officially for DID, but still. i really want to be able to handle stress, pressure and other impulses, outside me or inside me.
hell i cant even decide WHAT we want to do!

i think its a mayor disabling thing, DID!

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Yes.I feel it makes me disabled.I want to be able to work and feel productive at something so bad.Unfortunately ,I just struggle getting thru the day and feel very overwhelmed by almost everything.Its the stress level that causes me to switch so much.So I would say the dissociating makes me disabled.

From the point of view of a job application, if I was asked that question, I would say, do you mean physically? No. But then, I would explain that I have difficulties with concentration and memory, from trauma. That way I wouldn't have to give away the "DID" word, which can mean one thing to one person and another, to another person. Not very many people truly even bother to try to understand what it actually is.
Personally, I don't feel disabled entirely, although certainly impaired. and impaired enough to not be able to maintain employment for any length of time. Currently, I am on disability income. I don't anticipate being able to work again, but that could change And if I can again one day, I certainly want to. Much better for the self esteem if you can work. But if you can't you can't, and that's OK too.

i considewr myselfdisabled, never know who otr when im going to be someone diferent plus pasranoia, depression, insomnie, extreme insecurity, i cant imagine keeping a job for long. joe.

me either. i cant imagine getting along with someone for more than a month. but i still live with my parents, so ya gotta do what ya gotta do, i guess.

no and i don't like the word - i say 'differently abled.' my brother can't read, his iq is borderline retarded mine is borderline genius but you know what? he can do things i can't. so i say we're different.

and after 2 concussions i can't do what i used to so in some ways i'm 'disabled' from what i once could do. i dissociate and that makes life difficult - but i don't know any other way TO live. if i could snap my fingers and be a monomental (not my word) i wouldn't know how to function.

i struggle w/this ? on job apps too, i just interviewed w/a gov't agency today and didn't claim it - it gives you an edge with the gov't. it's subjective, just like ssa says, it's not WHAT disease you have but HOW it impacts your daily life. so for me being dissociative usually isn't a 'disability,' but sometimes it is, like any chronic illness or condition i guess.

I like that, People....my brother is probably, though not diagnosed, FAS...but if you get to know him, you realize what an incredible person he is, despite that fact.

I wouldn't disclose anything you didn't have to. It will reduce your chances of getting the job. DID is not really a handicap so you can honestly answer that you don't have one. I was working with a doctor once who specializes in DID and he told me that DID isn't classified as a mental illness, if anything, it is a emotional disorder. So as long as the job won't evoke triggering emotions I would just continue on because in that situation you are just as capable as anyone else. Obviously if you are suffering from anxiety, PTSD, depression and that type of thing then you would might want to mention it but I really think that 9 out of 10 times you'll get turned away if you do.