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SmcSenior Contributor30 Dec 2016, 4:14 pm AEDT

D.I.D....

Wanting to know if there's anyone else in this group caring for someone with D.I.D.?

We've got a family member with a very "crowded" internal world of multiple personalities. This goes along with compulsive behaviours, phobias, social anxiety, derealisation and other difficulties. The person in question sees medical and psychological practitioners regularly; it's a disorder that apparently doesn't respond to medication, and they have previously reacted badly to medications that have been trialled; I'm seeing a psychologist regularly myself to deal with the pressure and get some feedback/backup. I have a supportive husband and family, but otherwise it's hard to know how to or who to talk with about what's going on. It's an uncommon enough disorder that you have to explain an awful lot about it before a conversation can even really start, and then you run into dangerous ground regarding the privacy of the person in question.

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SmcSenior Contributor01 July 2019, 7:02 pm AEST

Re: Dissociative Identity Disorder Carers?

Going up again with my sister in two weeks @Former-Member, Hubby and Younger Daughter following us up a couple of days later.
I thought about reporting it, but I was there for such a short time that it would have been hard fitting in an official police "check up". My sister agreed with me that since there didn't seem to have been anything taken or damaged, and there were no signs that they'd tried to get into the house, it was more creepy than anything else. If there's any evidence of it having happened again, we'll probably contact them.
We think it may have been someone interested in Mum and Dad's plants as the glasshouse and the shadehouse were their obvious points of interest, but we've already taken a lot of the surviving plants home with us. I left a note in the shadehouse suggesting that if they had any legitimate reason to contact us, a note in the letterbox was much more appropriate and legal. Which they'll only see if they get past my gate barrier, and which I hope they don't attempt!