You might sometimes experience heightened or muted visual/auditory distortions with no medical cause, such as blurry vision, muffled sounds, or tunnel vision. Thats all I can say. And as the OSDD appellation is so often dropped in favour of DID due not least to its incredibly cumbersome name, which hardly rolls off the tongue! I wanted to extent my reverence to you right now that you are in this mental chaos, this anguish and horror, and you are still pushing forward. If this is causing distress or difficulty for you, seek out a professional who specializes in DID to help you sort out whats going on. Being that therapy techniques never work with extreme stress, I was hoping to learn a few new things to try. You might experience moments where you dont feel in control of what youre saying or doing. Indeed, one of the hallmarks of DID is the extremes of coping capacity in their ANP state, people with DID can present as high-functioning and extremely competent, only to crash for example at night when their EP states take over. If you lose control that's like the definition of possession. Alter - A dissociated identity, found in DID and OSDD. Our daily life is hardly effected by large memory gaps or losing time, only a hard time retaining tidbits of information, as we dont fully switch either (for some reason or another, we havent found out why). A journey starts, one of untold emotional pain and memories horrible beyond belief. You are part of a strong community with a rich history and wonderful people. For those with OSDD-1a, this is due to a lack of two or more sufficiently differentiated alters, and for those with OSDD-1b, this is due to a lack of amnesia between alters. Passive influence is more common than switching, and it is more covert and harder to notice. At times the pain so bad that the desire to die returned. Thank you, always, for taking the time and energy to translate the unreadable into an understandable language. At least now I know. We are a system with OSDD 1b (fully formed alters with no amnesia), and we all feel validated in knowing that there are others like us and we arent the only ones who exist as separate people and switch regularly, but without amnesia. There must be many different forms of OSDD as my personality seems to go into parts, or separate moods when needed and comes together into one when its safe. It soon became apparent that what I had been taught was simply not true. We often simply say we are a dissociative system and nothing more, because our alters are fully fledged and individual (to the extent we recognize as such), but experience hardly any amnesia aside from large portions of childhood. I believe that the idea that one needs to black out or feel like youve completely lost control leads a lot of newly realized OSDD system to believe that they never switch when they actually are switching without realizing. Sandra in our system has described it as I dont stop fronting, but who that I is shifts. Get to know them. There are four presentations of OSDD listed in the DSM-5: In practice, subtype 1 is much more common than the others. Where EPs are also less autonomous and less likely to be out, these traumatised parts of the personality can end up being neglected or ignored: if a person with OSDD has non-distinctive traumatised parts of their personality, it can be harder to give them a voice and the time and space they need to bring their trauma to the fore, than it is for a clearly individuated EP with a name and age. But there are a range of difficulties in gaining a diagnosis at all, not least the fact that very few NHS staff are trained to spot dissociative symptoms, let alone administer the gold standard, the SCID-D assessment tool. the thing is, they can't front, like, ever. What will whole be like? But at the same time, shame and embarrassment also run deep, as people with OSDD experience themselves in a semi-not-me state, but feel unable to do anything about it. Does everyone need to take turns going to your shared job, or are only one or a few people going to take care of that while others take care of cooking and cleaning at home? But if up to three times as many people receive a diagnosis of OSDD/DDNOS compared to dissociative identity disorder, it would suggest that the definition of DID is too narrow. You might feel like your body is unrecognizable, unreal, or doesnt reflect who you are. I dont feel that I can ask for help because I cannot allow anyone to see the dark part, so I feel myself always looking happy weirdly (and thankfully), I always feel happy too (I think). You might have difficulty being aware of your own symptoms or describing the severity of them. I find it very hard to have any empathy whatsoever for my abusers, nor should I need to. Since DID/OSDD are more complex forms of PTSD, you or other alters might experience the symptoms of complex PTSD. I'm sorry I'm still learning. You should look into persecutor alters and the reasons they might exist. There are different kinds of alters, including littles, fictional introjects (fictives), factional introjects (factives), and non-human alters. Every waking moment, a moment of pain, pain unending, but no idea why? TW: Implied mentions of childhood trauma and fusion/integration. It may be important for some people with OSDD to distinguish their experience from that of people with dissociative identity disorder and it would be good for people in this category to come forwards and write about their experience to help people, clinicians in particular, understand the unique characteristics of life with OSDD. In general, you are going to more easily be able to orient new system members on your current life situation and possibly be able to communicate with them better than DID systems. Typically a pair of semiconductor outputs that are safety rated (an OSSD pair). Switches can be slow, quick, or uncontrollably rapid. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Get a free 104-page Trauma Survivors Resource Guide when you join my mailing list. I remember what they shared during those times, but I am quick to shut them up. So, your article is a godsend testament to my experiences. They were simply people who had endured more than their share of pain in this life and were struggling to make sense of it., Deborah Bray Haddock, The Dissociative Identity Disorder Sourcebook. Not a life others would want though. What are your similarities and differences between each other, what common ground can you find? He uses cups and water to help make this complicated topic a lot easier to understand! Find more information on DID here. These are very simple descriptors for a spectrum of experiences that are the hallmarks of the disorders. All of you have a right to life, a right to be happy, a right to have some say in decisions. For some people, that means rejecting labels altogether. ), Complex trauma is also known as developmental trauma in that it is trauma that is chronic, pervasive, and it happens early in development from, say, birth to teens. This was a truly amazing article. This video goes together with an article and letter from The Plural Association. i'm sure. Many voices, many children, each with their own story, voices to be heard and listened too. You might lose a lot of details or misremember the important bits. Mostly male EPs but a good number of female ones. Identifying or personal information is not collected on this website, and the data collected is not sold to or shared with third party services. Dissociation is weird. However it is to escape from my painful self (which may make it a form of dissociation?) Were not doctors or clinicians and our nonprofit, our work, and this website in no way provide medical advice, nor does it replace therapy or medication in other ways. There are as many Plural experiences, as there are Plurals. As you can imagine, OSDD-1, in either forms, is difficult to spot and can be a struggle to diagnose. OSDD usually forms in the child's early teens, or even earlier. More information is provided through Dell's work on theMultidimensional Inventory of Dissociation (MID). All content on this website is provided for the purpose of general information only. You might experience hallucinations or delusions, usually related to past trauma. All of this therefore begs the question of whether or not it is worth getting a diagnosis, and whether a differential diagnosis between DID and OSDD has any value. DID NOS lacks the clarity its parts being more connected to other parts of your personality .. problematic to both describe and diagnose ( if Diagnosis is important for you ). They all respond to my name. Emotional neglect can lead to a pretty profound disconnection from yourself; depersonalization, depression, a sense of purposelessness. It does so much for you, and you deserve to have a break! These intrusions may also cause the fronting alter to gain skills and abilities that they do not usually have (such as public speaking despite normally suffering from, Both full switches and "partial intrusions" of alters are described in more detail by Dell in, "I have one particular child alter who has a very good sense of humour, and part of his role is to help us experience enjoyment and lift our mood. Then there is the whole question of amnesia. Your early system days should be spent getting used to the idea of having other people in your head and getting to know said people. Indeed, Spiegel et al (2011, p.841) point out the inherent flaws in the current diagnostic criteria for dissociative disorders and say: If the diagnostic criteria for dissociative identity disorder were changed to reflect the typical clinical presentation of DID (ie a complex dissociative presentation with no confirmed alter identities), these complex DDNOS patients would meet diagnostic criteria for DID. It is also what happens in practice: very few people would realistically distinguish between DID and OSDD. Our works, including resources like this, are only possible because of support from Plurals and our allies. I appreciate knowing that the treatments are pretty much the same and a hit or miss either way. The following personal communication from someone with OSDD (reprinted with permission) is revealing: I dont have parts like other people seem to. Answer (1 of 3): Yes. Whole means emotions, thoughts, body and self must be brought together and united, which was to be avoided at all costs. Then I have historical mes that exist related to the life they faced. System: Commonly used as another term for somebody with DID or . For example Colin Ross (2007, p.142) says: The dividing line between DID and most cases of dissociative disorder not otherwise specified is arbitrary. it quickly developed into them trying to traumatize me as much as possible to "break me" so they could "re-make" me as a person they'd want to have as their host. This was a truly amazing article. If you have alters, you've had them since childhood; systems only form due to severe repeated childhood trauma before age 9. yeah, but that doesn't mean they always differentiate early-in-life. I previously felt it was a weakness , a personality defect where I sometimes I feel like a child very frightened unable to speak to adults . So not all information on this website might apply to your situation or be helpful to you; please, use caution. I just read that even one of my favourite youtube channels, The Rings System, made a shoutout on twitter to non-switching systems. I didn't start getting dissociation issues until I started exploring my trauma, what if it's just my brain creating more overt coping mechanisms and me misinterpreting them? The structural theory of dissociation would say that I have DID and leave it at that, but I feel as though that theory is incomplete and inaccurate to my experience. You might have moments where you discover evidence of your memory gaps, such as text messages you dont remember sending or purchases you dont remember deliberating. It is rarely accompanied by an alter changing what clothing the system is wearing, announcing themselves in public, or extreme whiplashes in behavior or personality. They use that information to predict what might interest you. Non-switching systems definitely exist, as they were a diagnosis in the DSM 3. ", "People unfamiliar with Dissociative Identity Disorder may envision the walls between alters and their memories as being concrete, but it is not that simple. it doesnt change much if your experience is unusual, if you can relate to a single thing from someone elses experiences, then that can help you understand your own experiences even if its a different disorder. Pain where self inflicted death was a viable option. How would you define separate sense of self? onset of diagnosable symptoms can occur much later in life. Some indicators that a switch may be about to occur include the following: feeling "spacey", depersonalized, or derealized; blurred vision; feeling distanced or slowed down; feeling an alter's presence; or feeling like time is beginning to jump (indicating minor episodes of time loss). You might find that your memory is unreliable. Its clear to me that there is a spectrum of these things. A fantastic video from Dr. Mike Lloyd from the CTAD Clinic on how alters/parts in DID/OSDD develop from complex trauma. So what is the solution? What are the rules for your outside relationships? A hurricane raging above. There might be alters who have suicidal thoughts, physically harm the body, or engage in risky behavior. It doesnt feel like me, and when Im like that I can remember things that I dont remember the rest of the time, although Im always worried that Im making it up. This article dispels several myths and misconceptions about dissociative identity disorder and the lives of those who have it. like, don't get me wrong, i get where you're trying to come from, but understanding the reasons for their abuse isn't really something i get the chance to center when i have no cognitive or emotional space to process their actions. This website was last updated 11/29/2022. Slow switches can also indicate that the system is heavily dissociated and depersonalized and that alters are struggling to connect with the mind and body. No we will not be left behind, we will always be with him and a part of him. As always, we encourage you and your System to follow your own truth, to soul search, to find words, labels, visions, theories and communities that arent only within your values but also match your lived experience and/or long term goals, so that you might find belonging and dont have to try to fit in. It was easily one of the strangest experiences I've had in the now. We have 19+ alters, and our collective pronouns are they/them. Other times, it feels.like a switch flicking in my brain and then the feeling that if that part were not a part of my life, it would.be leading a completely different life. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. So one option, favoured by many people that I have been in contact with, is to merge the categories and to count the condition as DID/OSDD and leave it at that. These other parts of me arent clear though theyre not distinct. Also, at one moment, I would be okay with something someone said and then only for me to become intensely furious after an hour. I havent read about this before but it has to be so that everyone is different. Sometimes for a split second, sometimes for hours, sometimes for a day. I can feel this happening but have no amnesia , I can also be extremely confident and competent and can do extremely difficult work with ease ..and can feel I am invincible as a professional in my career and the more difficult my work is (others feel I should be stressed) the easier it feels to me ..I can also experience triggers out of my control and extreme anger and emotional stress and hurt which can immobilize me .. This is a scholarly article from Harvard College that tackles six beliefs about DID, why they are irrefutably myths, and how they are damaging. So what would be otherwise unbearable feelings or thoughts can be tested out in this alternative mindspace, before gradually being reconnected with. Like I was talking to friends the other day and brushing my teeth, and suddenly it felt like I was a different height and my own sink felt unfamiliar. In OSDD-1, severe childhood trauma causes different identities, known as alternate states of consciousness (alters) to form. Its quite.a mess to get to grips with .. Your email address will not be published. This article makes the complex simple. When she explained the differences, in a way I could easily understand, it did make sense. Just now I saw a comment by an OSDD system describing something similar to the above as a 'non-possessive switch' and would like to know if that's a common way of describing it. That includes what causes it, factors that influence its presentation, how alters are created, how switching works, all the current science behind this stuff, etc. I literally switch between stereotypes sometimes, shallow charicatures (no identity take-over) of other people or animals, without amnesia. She says: My advice to clinicians is that until they have met an alter, it is not DID. Thank you, this has been very informative. Someone might have told you that you did or said something that you dont recall. For example, the host may ask a more academic alter to help them to take a standardized test on a certain date. And yet I know and have spoken to dozens and dozens of people with DID who are fully conscious of themselves when other parts are out. Dissociative Identity Disorder Information - First Person Plural But there is someone specific that just loves.thay jacket and we ended up wanting to cry over it, which we don't do about things so it was a very off guard feeling. And you are incredibly valid. If two alters choose to switch with one another, they usually have some degree of co-consciousness with each other and could both choose to remain at front, or actively aware of the outside world, after the switch. My final tip is to know that things will be okay. But many symptoms may appear to be non-trauma-related, such as depression, substance abuse, eating disorders and anxiety. Things come out of my mouth, stuff Im saying and I dont know why Im saying it. You might sometimes experience pain or sensations that dont have a medical cause, such asswitching headaches.. plus like, they can talk out loud if i let them. What are things in your system that everyone has to abide by? There might be alters who are be unaware of other alters existence or refuse to believe so. DID/OSDD - DID is short for Dissociative Identity Disorder and OSDD is short for Other Specified Dissociative Disorder. I learned an overwhelming amount about the details of what happens between genetics and environment to create the dissociative symptoms and how it relates to the spectrum; so much makes sense to my situation and I learned about eco therapy, and a few of the suggestions I have not tried yet! Additionally, switching can be more varied than many may be aware. It should be said that OSDD systems who have shared memory with their system tend to have a leg up over systems who have memory gaps. Below, Ive written up a non-exhaustive list of common symptoms in DID/OSDD. Why am I here? For example, ducks at the pond could be a trigger for a 7 year old alter to push their way to front, or someone calling who is a special friend for one alter in particular might trigger that alter to switch out. They dedicate their time to documenting their plural journey and showing others that you can live a great life with OSDD. This can occur slowly, with obvious signs, or very fast. Most often, weve heard the idea of one person stepping back and the other stepping forward, a complete loss of control for one and a complete gain of control for the other. You might see personalised advertising on our services, on other websites or in marketing emails. People with dissociative identity disorder have at least two distinctly different identities, but some believe as many as 100 can emerge. The important thing is that the labels people give themselves are helpful to them, to meet their specific needs. antipsychotics don't do shit for me, and they can control my body to a limited extent (stuff like raising an arm or making me pee). b) People who are somewhere in the "middle" of this "spectrum", i.e. I can tell which part feels what and they do have names but because I dont switch or have amnesia and its mostly passive influence, I struggle to know if its just me interpreting something if that makes sense (my partner is in a DID system so I know what that end of the spectrum looks like but struggle to know where I fall.). Many people who have what we call complex trauma have had many years of trauma; mostly were talking about child abuse. The DSM-5 adds some detail to it, saying: This category includes identity disturbance associated with less-than-marked discontinuities in sense of self and agency, or alterations of identity or episodes of possession in an individual who reports no dissociative amnesia. In other words, OSDD often presents as not yet or not quite DID people who havent yet met the criteria for dissociative identity disorder but may well do so in the future, or people who have slightly atypical forms of DID, for example by not having amnesia. For us, our system has gone through a lot of changes in the 11 years we've known about it. Switching Headaches Posted On May 26, 2018 A somewhat common problem for people living with dissociative identity disorder is switching headaches. Well, how can I know it's switching or alters or something like that? Depersonsaliation/derealisation disorder sounds complicated and scary. Put it aside and go to work. They are separate diagnostic manuals and which diagnosis you get depends mostly on which manual your therapist is using. Answer - An OSDD (Other Specified Dissociative Disorder) system is a group of alters, formed by repeated childhood trauma from ages 1-12 usually. You do not need to have DID/OSDD or PTSD to follow me! The DSMs criteria of alters, amnesia, and distress/impairment arent meant to be taken at the surface level. Carolyn Spring Ltd. Company registered in England no 11109933. Being blurry is not always a stressful or upsetting incident, this is more dependent on the individual and situation. But an interesting point in this concerns the progress of therapy, which is to re-integrate traumatic memories into mainstream consciousness. But the most violent and hateful ones could only front enough to assist in/enact self harm or such things. We and our advertising suppliers use these technologies to personalise the advertising you see. But it makes perfect sense once you understand how the brain reacts to threat, and how that reaction can become a habitual response to any form of stress. Normally, a reed switch is constructed of two thin metal strips, or reeds, which are sealed in a glass tube. These systems do not experience clinically significant amounts of amnesia, more commonly having emotional amnesia. This of course begs the question of whether OSDD/DDNOS-1 and DID are in fact the same thing, and just different points on a spectrum, and whether the diagnostic criteria for DID are too tightly applied. Then we found out about OSDD, and suddenly everything made sense. This was a wonderful read that we in our system very much appreciated. It can be very exciting to be able to get to know a new person thats probably going to end up being an important figure in your life! i haven't heard of other systems where this is the case and was wondering if anyone else had experiences like this. I couldnt believe what I was saying and how I was behaving.). And there comes the second fact, I have three ANPs and identify highly with Polyfragmentation, and its a huge mystery to me on if I have OSDD or DID along with that. Switches can be consensual, forced, or triggered. When there is often a strong emphasis on the dissociative parts of the personality, people with OSDD can feel unheard and unseen, and so I feel that it is very important to validate the reality of the experience of people with the OSDD label. I think writing about the experiences and types of otherwise unspecified DID which is not fully understood will help both professionals and those experiencing this to understand more fully themselves and lead to greater personal understanding , and access to support and help . We were a system of 13-14 alters and from my perspective there was very limited full switching. But at the end of the day they are just like you. However, even with consensual switches, the alter who takes a step back, so to speak, may then retreat inside for whatever reason. The Plural Association and The Alexandrite System have collaborated on an OSDD video in the past. In a moment, my interests, name, vocal inflections, gender- change. While this disorder is hard to live with, we often lead fulfilling lives. Consensual Switches Consensual switching is when two or more Parts mostly agree before a switch occurs. Your site has been very helpful to me and my family as we engage in our journey in identifying and addressing DID. (she/her/hers or plural they/them/theirs), Pingback: All about Other Specified Dissociative Disorder (OSDD) - an explanation about OSDD-1A & OSDD-1B - powertotheplurals.com, Your email address will not be published. You might feel numbed to or detached from your body parts, thoughts, emotions, sense of agency, or even your entire self. For example, a system that has distinct members but does not switch would still be OSDD, despite not fitting into either A or B. None of us remember it, but thats ok. We dont need (or want) to know what happened in our childhood that caused everyone to form, although our carer usually encourages us to try to remember because she thinks it will be good for us or something. So to answer your original question: yes, at least for some time this was very much my experience. Im far from full blown DID, although my present therapist may argue about that. This author does not have any more posts. External signs that a switch may have just occurred include the following: heavy blinking as if the individual is just waking up; mild muscle spasms or jerks; disorientation or visible confusion; checking the clock or one's watch; seeming not to remember anything that just happened; complaining of a mild or moderate headache; adjusting clothing or posture; clearing one's throat before speaking so that the tone or pitch changes; or a change in vocabulary, syntax, preference, opinion, temperament, skills, or general personality. I grew, matured, had a career and a life. I often describe it like I am on a system. These intrusions may vary in strength and influence and may result in the fronting alter taking actions or voicing opinions that they can't explain or account for. Maybe not right away, but eventually. As someone who lives in the States, but plans to move to the UK at the earliest availability, this also helped urge us to get our treatment while we can. I don't think our main persecutors ever fully fronted and were similarly very angry about this. Then, in the darkness, I would suddenly look around and be surprised when the room was my old room and actually the room where I'm currently living. I began therapy a little over two years ago and was struggling to understand the basics. The same cannot be said for OSDD. Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. thank you so much. Clinicians have also noted difficulties that arise in therapy for people with OSDD, as opposed to DID. Uncontrollably rapid thin metal strips, or doesnt reflect who you are part of.! We engage in risky behavior is different dedicate their time to documenting their Plural journey and showing others you! 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