Anonymous Coward · 5d
is it possible that i just have amnesia, cptsd, ptsd, dissociate, uncontrollable/conflicting/frequently changing emotional states and opinions, and frequently dissociate without having DID/OSDD? lol.
reason i ask is because i can never tell when if i switch, so obviously it must never happen /hj i cant tell if a switch is defined by just feeling different but is it not common to feel differently about things all the time???
if you meet the criteria you meet the criteria
knowing when you switch isn't a criteria either. it's pretty expected that you don't maintain perfect awareness of switching of self states. hell, people without dissociative disorders are not even always aware of their emotions, and given that dissociative people learn early on that their feelings are not safe to have and then proceed to spend several years building dissociative barriers to shut out those feelings in order to survive ...
sorry I kinda got carried away there.
depending on your age it can be extremely common to feel differently about things. no person alone is without complexity, contradiction, or cognitive dissonance. so I can't tell if how you specifically feel is 'common' or 'pathological'
that being said, let me define a switch in the way I understand it:
a change in your unique subjective perspective experience and relationship to the world, yourself, others, and your past
