Possible Signs and Symptoms of DID

There are many symptoms across a broad spectrum that can be involved in someone with DID and often symptoms can be caused by co-morbid diagnoses. Here is a list of a few possible signs and symptoms. Please do not try and self-diagnose. A mental health diagnosis needs to be done by a professional.

- feeling like more than one person

- encountering people that you've never met but seem to know you, sometimes calling you a different name

- being called names that are unlike your own

- having memory lapses that are indicative of dissociation (significant life events e.g. birthdays or birth of a child)

- having blackouts (not recalling how you travelled to a certain place)

- finding items that are clearly yours but not recalling ownership or how the items got there in the first place

- hearing voices inside your head

- not recognising yourself in the mirror

- feeling unreal (derealisation)

- feeling like you are watching yourself move through life rather than living in it

These are only a few. Again, do not diagnose yourself. Dissociative disorders are complicated, especially DID. It usually takes years before a formal diagnosis is made.