[nayashi]

okay...so i have two shrinks sort of, one who diagnoses me and gives me medication, and the other who is my T who actually talkes to me (medication lady=deb, theripist=rene). Deb diagnosed me with depersonalization a little over a month ago, but now rene is telling her i don't have it. keep in mind, i've only seen both of them a few times now, deb maybe 3 or 4 times, and rene 4 or 5 times.

when i was talking to rene, she said she didn't think i depersonalized...but she said i might have DDNOS...she read me both decriptions, both seemed to make sense, DDNOS making a little more sense, and we both agreed that i was either one...but now rene is telling deb that i'm just in my head too much...i'm so confused and so overwhellmed...this is really starting to piss me off. neither of them know me well enough to say whether i am or i'm not. but i KNOW that i'm dissacociative...yes, i spelled that wrong, because that exactly how i feel. i don't reconize myself in the mirror or photographs. especailly photographs, i have to stare at them for a while to realize that it's me. everything always feels like a dream...and it's not like i read the symptoms of depersonalization/DDNOS and said "hey, that's me!" i didn't even know what either of them were, and i said things that every person with DP/DR/DDNOS have said!!!

i really don't like being pulled in all sorts of crazy directions.

 

[peacedove]

This is why I'm glad my therapist and shrink can't talk to each other.

What is DDNOS? I really don't think many doctors, therapists, etc... know much about DP at all. I had to argue with my therapist before he finally agreed I have DP. And my psychiatrist, well he thinks my anxiety is causing feelings of unreality. But no! He doesn't get it. I have DP... I diagnosed myself.

You may have to educate your doctors on this disorder. That is what I'm trying to do. Not many people seem to know much about it. No one I've met knows anything about it really. I took a college psychology course and they discussed all these different illnesses in great detail, but there was like only one paragraph on DP.

But I dont know... people on here seem to explain DP very well so I usually copy and paste info, print it out and show people hoping they'll understand.

 

[dreamcatcher]

i think i am quite fortunate.....to start with i took myself to hospital....they said i had anxiety but refered meto a mental health team....this team came to see me ever day for 6 weeks but they didnt really know what to do with me....i researched anxiety and panic disorders myself AND WORKED OUT I HAD DP, then saw a phyc who offered me meds but sort of brushed my symptoms under the carpet saying not to dwell on them[i see now she was actually trying to help] eventually i was reffered for long term mental health support. i chose myself to stop seeing the shrink and go to the gp instead....i explained how i felt to the gp and they instantly diagnosed me of having dp....they are been really supportive.....with there help and my therapists help i am waiting for CBT. doctors and shrinks can only work with what u tell them and from what you describe i think you have dp welcome to the club

 

[nayashi]

that is exactly what my shrink said, that i have anxiety. i looked at her and said "i didn't know," sort of sarcastically because i almost never feel anxious unless it's for a reason, so it doesn't even make sense.

DDNOS is dissacociative disorder not otherwise specified...it's like DP and DR and DID and all the other dissacociative disorders combined, but none of them as severe.

i know i'm either DP or DDNOS. i do feel DR, not nearly as often (only 3/4 out of my day instead of the entire thing), and i know i'm dissacociative. there's just no question about it. i explained it to my theripist and i said "i don't recognize myself in the mirror. i don't recognize myself in photographs. i feel like i'm in a dream all the time." still, the best way i can describe it is that i feel imaginary. i have been diagnosed with depression, but i don't think i have it. i think i have DP or DDNOS and that is what is making me depressed.

it's so often both of them are misdiagnosed as depression or anxiety.

i want to strangle them both.

 

[Inflammed]

What that DDNOS thing ?

PS : I also hug trees. :shock:

 

[Magneto]

DDNOS - Dissociative Disorder Not Otherwise Specified