Posted by lucie lu on December 7, 2008, at 16:23:14
In reply to Re: Dissoc disorders, not easy, posted by muffled on December 7, 2008, at 15:01:07
> Hey lucie lu, you reply or not, s'ok, I just try and share so if there anybody else that relate, then they feel less alone is all.
> I sure like how you write.
> Hope you doing OK, sounds like you had rough time lately.
> Take care,
> MMuffled, I started tearing up when you said that about me having a rough time recently, so I guess I have been. Thank you, I really needed that.
Actually, and this is to Phillipa too, I agree that DDs are on a continuum. I think most psych disorders are, and you can move along them. There is a continuum between normal and psychotic, based on how well we "perceive reality." We are all psychotic sometimes, just hopefully it's transient and situational. There's the mood continuum that leads up to full-blown bipolar I. In between is a range of affective states and disorders, cyclothymia, MDD, BPII and other mixed affective states etc. I think of the DD continuum as having to do with identity and continuity of experience. At one extreme is DID, where the different pieces of personality and reality are all split off and independent. But elsewhere along that continuum are other states where identity, time, space, events are still not all that continuous. As I have written in posts before, for most of my life I have felt like Raggedy Ann - a patchwork doll with roughly stitched together pieces. Very fragmented identity. Fair amount of childhood amnesia, memory problems in general. So like muffled, I am somewhere on the continuum short of DID but definitely it is all very confusing. One of the goals of my therapy is to integrate the major pieces. I think muffled describes the confusion of DDs very well.
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