Multiple Personalities Support Group
Dissociative identity disorder is a diagnosis described as the existence in an individual of two or more distinct identities or personalities, each with its own pattern of perceiving and interacting with the environment. At least two of these personalities are considered to routinely take control of the individual's behavior, and there is also some associated memory loss,...
OK, I don't know who all on here has competent therapists or no. I don't. I was diagnosed by two diff drs at diff times. But my last therapist sort of ditched me, well I couldn't pay so there you go, but they didn't know what to do with me anyway. So most of what I know of DID I have gotten from reading bout PTSD or other books. This info comes from "Feeling Unreal" a book I got through the library, c.2006(didn't cite author)
Quotes
* Being human seems strange, bodily functions seem bizarre, sometimes I feel like I'm from Mars.
* She feels like she does not exist at all...she feels like an actress
In Depersonalization, the world is strange, unreal
You can experience
---Macro or Micropsia, which is "an uncanny alteration in size or shape of objects" ( I love Calvin and Hobbes and this is totally Calvin-esque)
---Altered sense of time
---Distortion of time perception
---Compulsive self scrutiny
---Preoccupation with loss of control, or fear of insanity
---Feelings that you a reviewing yourself in a movie
---Feeling that the mind is operating apart from the body that contains it.
OK.
Not sure why I needed to put this post up, but here it is, maybe just for me.
I like all you guys on this MPD group. Thanks for being cool, accepting and supportive.
And one of my alters wrote something while I was trying to do something on here and went Ewwwww instead.
Unless that was like a finger.dial instead of a butt dial
You rock amber
Brain wave book looks amazing. Have to check that out!!!
Heart you guys so much
Love, Us
I think a lot of my inability to feel "close" to people, or like people actually might like me probably is because of the depersonalization. Maybe. Or because I watched so many twilight zones as a kid that I just don't really feel like I completely exist anyway...LOL
Compulsive self scrutiny
Preoccupation with and fear of insanity, or losing control, losing self, loss of self control