schizophrenia/dissociation

I'm glad you responded. I've had so much else going on I forgot all about Sandra's question.

My answer is, when I was first dx'd, at age 17, I did a lot of reading... I always thought MPD (DID) and schizophrenia were the same thing from different "sides". One is the other turned inside out. Hard to explain exactly what I mean, but I think it's almost like when you are meditating, when you can "observe" the mind states. I think DID and schizophrenia are two different ways of "observing" or internalizing/processing trauma or other stressors.

And, I think that obviously genetics, environment, etc will play into which path a person chooses. But I see a lot of overlap between the two diagnoses... in fact, I have alters that "see" other alters as "separate" or "outside" the head... and that's just plain "schizophrenic". Sort of odd to think about... I sort of wonder if schizophrenics have a child part stashed in an internal cave... who knows that the voices are "internal" but the voices don't know it... As I used to say to my old therapist "I'm not DID but my parts are."

If you followed that train of thought, as a friend and I often say, "you are probably DID" :-)

I also meditate... vipassana... I think it's been the most valuable and stable part of my healing and the community I have, of other meditators, is valuable, too.

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