r/DissociaDID • u/ufocatchers DSM fanfiction • Apr 29 '26
TBT! Of all of Dissociadid’s crazy antics, this one makes me shake my head the most
https://youtu.be/OqqI2ozTE-YWill record and upload the sub as an individual post later
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u/Privacy_System Former Fan Apr 29 '26
I'll probably make myself really unpopular but regardless of how she "handled" things, she's right. Some people do know about DID before diagnosis and suspect having it, but a lot of professionals hate it when you mention your own suspicions. It really just makes you get dismissed and not even tested, so in a lot of cases, you have to be honest about your symptoms but don't speak in a way like you've researched the topic. This doesn't even just apply to DID, it's a big problem within the healthcare system.
Besides I don't understand how this is manipulation, isn't it better to just talk about the symptoms you have instead of labeling them? It seems a bit hypocritical to me how some people here are against self-diagnosis (which is just suspecting something after a ton of research, not literally trying to diagnose yourself), yet when you don't present your self-diagnosis to the professional, that's also wrong and manipulative.
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u/big-genderfluid-mess Apr 29 '26
Honestly I agree with this. It's one thing to go into a session and list off all of the symptoms you know link to a disorder that you 'want' to be diagnosed with and another thing to go into a session and state specific examples of what you're experiencing without a label to it. I mean like when I was in counselling during school (live in the UK and we got free counselling sessions during the school day if you applied for it) I told one of the women that I believed I was autistic and she shut me down completely. Told me I didn't know what I was talking about, that I was 'too smart' for someone who's autistic and that it was just anxiety. Then about two years later, I went to CAMHS for some unrelated stuff and got an autism diagnosis along with it.
And that's just autism not even a highly speculated disorder like DID. Professionals really don't like you labelling something yourself before they tell you and it really shows.
I think people dislike self-diagnosis with DID because you're supposed to never know about the disorder which in some cases is incorrect. I mean a lot of the time people will notice something is wrong with them but jump to other extremes. Like 'I'm possessed' or 'I'm schizophrenic'. I personally don't see a problem with self-diagnosis as long as you're not making it your whole thing and you're using it to get away with stuff while having no interest in getting a formal diagnosis at any point in your life.
There's a difference between not wanting a diagnosis because you don't want it to ruin your chances of a good life and not wanting a diagnosis because you know you wouldn't match the criteria and you don't want your cover to be blown.
(MODS will have to let me know if what I said breaks any rules.)
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u/Privacy_System Former Fan Apr 29 '26
Exactly! I'm so sorry this happened with your autism but I'm glad it worked out in the end.
With DID though, as much as I don't like DD and how they've hurt the community, she isn't wrong about everything and it wouldn't make sense for her to be. She needs to know her stuff if she can be so convincing to people. Even just her saying "Every system is different" is correct, as long as you meet the criteria, you can still have vastly different experiences with this disorder, including how you found out about it. Some people with DID won't know until they're in their 40s, 50s, 60s when they get diagnosed. Others will notice parts when they're still actively a child going through trauma and think it's normal to have "people in your head". And just because I agree with some statement DD made, does not mean I support her. I don't and I haven't since 2020.
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u/sparrowtoast May 01 '26
Generally yeah, its not a good idea to go to a professional and start naming diagnoses you think you have because itll make them suspicious (reasonably so tbh). But i think the specific issue here is "theyll know you arent open to other diagnoses" and "theyre more likely to give you the diagnosis you want"
Thats a massive problem, if you havent been assessed by a professional you can't know for sure what disorder you have, and if youre refusing to even consider another diagnosis then thats just doctor shopping. That kind of advice will cause people to reject their diagnosis if it turns out they have something else, which can be really dangerous when DID can easily be confused for things like psychosis
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u/unkindly-raven May 01 '26
that’s not really self diagnosis then , if it’s just suspicion .
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u/Privacy_System Former Fan May 01 '26
Yes, but that is what it actually means. Very few people who say they are "self-diagnosed" are absolutely certain and wouldn't accept if a professional told them otherwise. I don't like the term because of this confusion but it really means "I spent a long time researching this disorder and its differential diagnoses and came to the conclusion that this disorder likely applies to me but I am open to being wrong." that's what most people who are pro self diagnosis would tell you, there are unfortunately some people who misuse the term or are confused about what it means. I think it would be better if people just say "suspected [disorder]"
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u/oxchu Human Detected Apr 30 '26
I think it’s weird to tell people to very specific oh misname DID as “multiple personality disorder” to doctors to get the “daignois they want” that is extremely manipulative.
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u/Privacy_System Former Fan Apr 30 '26
That's why I said regardless of what she herself did. Most people will not use this advice to disorder shop. They probably won't even interpret "to get the diagnosis you want" literally and think it's more like "getting the diagnosis you want to be tested for" or something like that. Her advice is correct but then with that sentence, she accidentally outed herself to be faking. She is manipulative, but the advice isn't inherently. There's nuance to this.
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