What were you diagnosed with before being diagnosed with DID?
This is aimed towards those of us who have been seen and reviewed medically and didn’t receive a DID or a dissociative disorder diagnosis immediately. What kinds of diagnosis’s did you get that were misguided by professionals?
I’ll start. Got the typical Anxiety/GAD as well as depression diagnosis super young. Had to go inpatient a few times and seen some shitty therapists/psychiatrists, they tried to diagnose me with bipolar, schizoaffective, CPTSD and PTSD.
I think I see a common theme of some of these misdiagnosis’s for those of us with personality disorders/dissociative disorders (both types of disorders are different but they intertwine quite a lot), with specifically DID. I also struggle with BPD which I know tends to get misinterpreted or avoided in the medical world, but a lot of my treatment was denied earlier on due to the lack of understanding from professionals and an incapability to verbalise my problems properly.