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CalifChick -> RE: thanks for the dance. (1/13/2012 11:19:41 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Arpig
He administered some long involved interview process and concluded that I was indeed experiencing dissociative fugue states.
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You see, that is the problem I am having, I am not conciously able to control what these personalities do when I am in a fugue state. I have no memory of the times when they do things.
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At this point I do not know if I am officially suffering from DID, or if it is simply me functioning in an altered state of conciousness.
Perhaps you would be wise to ask your mental health professional to clarify his diagnosis.
What you have described has no resemblance to a dissociative fugue state (the word "states" makes no sense when you know what the phrase means), and a fugue state of any kind has no correlation to alternate personalities in the way you describe.
Further, Dissociative Identity Disorder (formerly called Multiple Personality Disorder) is a result of a trauma that causes the psyche to "fracture", if you will, creating another identity to protect the main "host" from the trauma. While the host is generally unaware of the alter(s), the alter(s) are aware of each other and the host. A new alter is not created at whim, or to "flesh out" the life of another alter. DID most often occurs in children (before age 9, and average age is just under 6), and is typically the result of extreme, violent, and/or horrendous emotional, physical, and/or sexual trauma.
In therapy, the therapist will work to determine which of the alters is charged with keeping the memories of the trauma. The ultimate goal is to re-unify all of the alters back into the one host personality.
Cali
(not a therapist and don't play one on tv)
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