Posted by Dinah on September 6, 2004, at 23:50:14
Another fruitless day online researching dissociative disorders. I'm extra sure now that I don't have DID. I know that labels are just shorthand. And I know that labels don't matter much.
But I remembered my joy and delight when I discovered OCD. My feeling of Ah-Hah!!! It was so wonderful to hear that I wasn't alone, that others experience what I experience. Rather remarkably similar experiences.
I understand myself now. That's the important thing. I'm comfortable with who I am. I don't surprise myself. I find that everything I experience is quite comprehensible within the framework that I use to understand myself.
But the fact that I can't find others who use the same framework to understand themselves is immensely frustrating to me.
I'm torn between believing that if it isn't well documented, it can't be true. Or believing that if it weren't true, I'd do a much better job (even subconsciously) of making something up so that it fits more with what's well documented.
Arrgh. Why do I so badly want a label?
poster:Dinah
thread:387451
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