JasBarrow wrote: ↑Mon Mar 29, 2021 5:49 pm
JasBarrow wrote: ↑Mon Mar 29, 2021 4:51 pm
Sorry man I dont mean to labor the point but you either have DID or you don't? It's sometihng you have to be diagnosed with.
Please feel free to tell me to mind my business and I wont be offended, I have a close friend who has DID so your post caught my attention.
jamesg46 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 29, 2021 5:17 pm
My point was that I recognise my personality alters... & that "I think" most people live through life with some form of DID "without being concious of it".
You can be concious of altering personalities without a diagnosis, such as my passive aggressive personality, which was pointed out in this forum.
Personalities alter, that's probably why it's a good idea to take a walk to regain yourself after a bad loss. Or why the saying surround yourself with the people you want to become exists.
The theory that you have to be diagnosed is strange, people have cancer before they're diagnosed. The diagnosis is simply someone else making you aware of it.
I would imagine that it varys in severity and some people suffer negatively from it & others don't. Personalities can go both ways, I just think it's a good idea to Vlog and keep track, I'm not making any wild claims of me being personally affected, just that my personality alters and I think a lot of people have DID in some form or another,.diagnosed or not.
Ok man thanks for explaining but I have to completely disagree with you. What your describing is fairly normal for most people, most of us will adjust our 'personality' depending on who we're speaking to and the situation we find ourselves in so comparing that to DID (also known as multiple personality disorder) makes no sense at all.
Ok. Altering a personality from one to another calculates to more than 1 personality imo. The degree to which it's done and the severity of the cause I'll leave to the experts. That's why I used the words one form or another... maybe I should of said to some degree.
I don't believe people adjust personalities, like in a way that they have some sort of dial that adjusts them to a fixed setting over a set period of time that they can control, but that's my opinion and I'm no expert.
You're obviously a lot closer to the reality of DID than I am & know first hand the effects it has on your friend. My theory (which I'm no expert) is the effects can be highly variable, so your friend may have an extreme set of personalities where others may be mild, I don't know.
The causes aren't well known
https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/condit ... disorders/
this link is for others, not you... I'm sure you're well aware. So from a cause/effect perspective who knows how variable the effects are.
Anyway, if anything our discussion may have raised awareness a little, I wish you and your friend well.