11/24/2025
Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID/OSDD) is a diagnosis that consists of these types of symptoms:
🧠Memory problems
🧠Disremembered actions
🧠Trance
🧠Depersonalization
🧠 Derealization
🧠Somatoform symptoms
🧠Manifestation of self-states
Memory problems involve memory loss that's more severe than normal forgetfulness.
An inability to recall large parts of childhood and/or losing time in the present.
Disremembered actions are when a person finds evidence of actions they must’ve taken but have no memory of having done those things.
May find new clothes in the closet, writing or artwork they don't remember creating, etc.
Trance symptoms are an involuntary escape from reality.
May look like going away in their mind when something upsetting happens or staring off into space, losing awareness of what's happening around them.
Depersonalization symptoms involve a sense of detachment from self.
May watch themselves as if the’re another person or feeling detached from themselves.
Derealization symptoms involve a sense of detachment from the people/things.
Perceptions may change with the world being seen through ,fog or their sense of time may slow down or sped up.
Somatoform symptoms involve experiencing physical symptoms that have no medical cause.
May have pain or seizures for no known reason, changes in their ability to walk or see, or having no feeling in their body for no known reason.
The most well-known symptom of DID is the manifestation of self-states in DID, when there is a sense of having independent or separate sides/parts of self.
May be experienced as hearing voices that correspond to these different sides or feeling like one changes from being an adult to a child or teen.
There's a lot of myths & misconceptions about the diagnosis of Dissociative Identity Disorder & those who carry the diagnosis.
And if you are an EMDR therapist interested in learning more about recognizing DID and working with it, check out the link in my bio.
