Posted by noa on June 28, 2000, at 18:42:28
In reply to To Noa re. different states, posted by anita on June 28, 2000, at 17:37:51
Like you, I don't feel my identity is fractured in any way, either. There is a dissociative quality to what I experience, but it is entirely in the emotional experience of myself.
When I was on Prozac, I noticed I was relatively unemotional. I couldn't cry even when it would have been appropriate, and it felt like a loss.
On the meds I use now, that is not the case, and I am able to experience the full range of emotions. But because I still struggle with getting lost in these "states" during some emotional experiences, it is a challenge to feel certain emotions without going into a downward spiral, a whirlwind of all the negative emotions. Similarly, the FEAR of getting lost in one of these states prevents me from allowing myself to experience my emotions more freely.
But I am getting much better at it.
I think true MPD, of the Sybil type, is quite rare, but I do think there are plenty of people who have some lack of integration of different experiences of themselves. To lump this into the category of DID is unfortunate, I think. I think there are many more types of dissociative experience besides identity disorders, and MPD or DID has too many controversial associations to it that it would be better to conceptualize a class of dissociative disorders differently than just under DID.
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