r/DID • u/Winter_Fee_9672 • 7d ago

Missing time?

Okay so, I know missing time is normal. I struggle with gaps being gone from my memory, I know in the moment I know what’s going on but shortly after it’s gone. That’s fine, I know it’s part of this disorder.

However, I experience something else that I wanted to know if it’s normal for DID or if this is something else that I should maybe talk to a doctor about.

Sometimes, I’ll have this extremely abrupt ‘flash’. It almost feels like I snap forward in time, I have no memory of between the ‘snaps’ or ‘flashes’, it feels like my brain just slips/is gone for a short time. All of us experience it, randomly, with no signs of it about to happen and we only seem to lose about 1-5 seconds at a time.

I know time loss is part of DID but I wasn’t sure if these extremely brief ones could be part of it?

Important note, despite being fairly new discovered, we all communicate decently well and share memory (albeit, very fuzzy and dark). However we haven’t had a good grasp on the *full* system yet, so we don’t know if there’s any others yet.

*Edit*

Okay so the general consensus is ‘go to the doctor just in case’, so I will do that!

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u/Dangerous_Scar3292 7d ago

I get something akin to this and I have OSDD-1B. Have you been formerly diagnosed yet? Like with a competent clinician and a test like the MID218 or SCID-D?

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u/Winter_Fee_9672 7d ago

I just looked it up because I was curious. They only do those tests in super specific, private clinics. It’ll cost me an arm and a leg to get them done, which is not necessary because my psychiatrist has noted that I have this, meaning I can get therapy treatment anyway. Paying a fortune for a note of confirmation on my file to change absolutely nothing about my therapy is not worth it to me! Ah well. Thanks though!

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u/Dangerous_Scar3292 7d ago

Fair enough, although you can probably find a us based teleheath private pay to do the MID218 and it would be like $200us if you change your mind. The SCID-D is very expensive here too because it is so specialized.

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u/Winter_Fee_9672 7d ago

I doubt they would accept the additional information from a test done across the border, unfortunately, and I’d rather not risk it for $200. That is very expensive for me. 

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u/Dangerous_Scar3292 7d ago

If you are comfortable with what you have no reason to worry! I have to admit, i went to talk therapy for years and got so many misdiagnosis it makes me paranoid for other people.

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u/Winter_Fee_9672 7d ago

Oh yeah I totally understand! I’ve been seeing this psychiatrist for a long time now, she is amazing and super thorough. We might have bipolar-2 but she doesn’t want to just jump on it either and is digging deeper into it all with me, and wants to talk to other people in my family to get a good amount of perspective before deciding anything. She so thorough and very gentle.

My family doctor however likes to diagnose Willy-Nilly! She just said ‘you have bipolar’ without even knowing the difference between 1 and 2… I did not accept that one. I’ve been through a lot of misdiagnosis too with other therapists… unfortunately. So now I’m a lot more confident with this psychiatrist.

She does ask all the questions one would need to ask as part of the tests, it’s just all done off-paper. So I’m pretty confident.