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Originally Posted by ColorlessGreenIdeas
If one suspects DID or DDNOS how does one go about determining what to do next without a local professional to help?
When one looks at someone like Robert Oxnam, his DID completely hid well until in his 40s I believe.
For my part I suspect at least DDNOS, but after being forced to leave a specialist trauma therapist due to a boundary issue (in my view anyway) there's no one left to help with this kind of knowledge in the community that I have found yet.
Any ideas?
I wouldn't otherwise care, except in my analysis I am having a slow breakdown leading to frequent EP intrusions of excruciating inner pain, waking up in dead of night in agony, and fighting substance abuse as a poor and desperate remediation. So this state of affairs cannot persist.
I pretended to be a researcher to get the MID and took it myself, but I still am unsure of the results.
Any advice is more than welcome.
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first thing you need to know is that if you look up in any actual diagnosis manuals used today by treatment providers you will see that there is no diagnosis.........label......called DDNOS.
what that means is anyone going to their treatment provider saying I have DDNOS they are going to question and most likely wonder why you are trying to diagnose your self with a mental disorder label that hasnt existed since 2013, and is now in 2020 called Other mental Disorder - No disorder, no condition.
in other words trying to diagnose your self with .........not........ having a mental disorder by saying you have mental disorder symptoms will get you looked at quite strangely and possibly not believed.
thats the difference and how to tell when one has a dissociative disorder vs when they dont have a dissociative disorder, when a person has a dissociative disorder all their symptoms/ problems add up to being a dissociative disorder vs when one has no disorder no condition all their problems / symptoms do .......not .........add up to having that disorder.
to understand this lets put it in something common...
how does a person know they have a cold or dont have a cold. if their doctor looks at them and their symptoms and problems and everything adds up to a cold they have a cold, if all their symptoms and problems dont add up to a cold they dont have a cold.
same thing with mental disorders. to find out if you have a mental disorder or do not have a mental disorder you contact a mental health treatment provider who gives you special tests then if all your problems add up to a dissociative disorder they will tell you which one, and if all your symptoms and problems do not add up to a dissociative disorder they will tell you that you have no disorder, no condition and mark your file as being no disorder no condition.
my suggestion call your doctors, tell them that you feel you may have either DID or Other mental disorder - no disorder no condition and they will tell you what you need to do to go through the actual diiagnosis for dissociative disorders.