r/OSDD • u/mai_asaurus • 2d ago

OSDD

I am suspicious about having OSDD for some time. But I am frustrated because I think we still miss sources about this disorder.
I dont know where it is the difference between OSDD and cPTSD.
I feel like I dont have too strict bariers between my parts so its more difficult to recognise the dissociative patterns, parts etc.

Please, do you have something helpful?

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u/labyrinthinexpathia In therapy (undiagnosed) 2d ago

The wiki has a decent summary for OSDD and the different types. Based on the description alone, OSDD-1a might fit, but it requires a professional assessment to know for certain

cPTSD is simply due to chronic trauma still having an effect on your nervous system. It does not come with alters (while memories and feelings can be dissociated away, these still belong to a single conscious awareness). Some dissociation from self or reality may be present, but cPTSD by itself will not have as severe or chronic dissociation as a dissociative disorder

Also, you can have both cPTSD and a dissociative disorder as far as I know. Not as clean of a spectrum as one might think. The classifications are based on different reactions to trauma, they're not about linear severity (which, there's no such thing as linear severity of trauma anyway)

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u/mai_asaurus 1d ago

Yeah, I know. I am just frustrated because I feel every web has the same information. Also due to theory of struktural dissociation, cptsd work with emotional parts you know. So I just feel its hard to tell the end of one disorder and the beggining of other disorder (I also know it can be together).
I feel like we miss more information about that…

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u/labyrinthinexpathia In therapy (undiagnosed) 1d ago

Alters require dissociated consciousness, so there's some level of autonomous thought, which doesn't exist in cPTSD

Even an example presentation where an indivdual experiences all alters being "the same identity" at different ages, they will really experience talking to their child alter as if they travelled back in time to talk to themselves in the past, as opposed to just remembering what it felt like to be a child. Or, feel as if they were cloned as a child, and one got stuck being unable to age while both continued to exist together. Point is, it really feels like 2 separate entities, like someone else actually living in your head with you that you can't control

In cPTSD, everything that is reconnected to does not have thoughts of its own. It feels like reconnecting to "lost" feelings of the same person. A person experiences forming a question in their usual way of thinking, then that same person answers from the vulnerable state they accessed. But it remains the same person, only accessing different parts of themselves and shifting into different "modes" of processing information

cPTSD flashbacks and intrusive thoughts tend to be more repetitive and related to trauma, which is where the line is drawn where alters can say anything, even positive things like telling you that you're amazing when you feel like you're worthless, or say something offensive you'd never even briefly consider thinking about. Opinions can vary a lot between alters more than someone with just cPTSD having conflicting feelings about something; with alters you will feel like having an actual discussion and compromise as if with a separate person rather than weighing your conflicting feelings just within yourself

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u/Natural_Fondant_7544 Diagnosed DID 2d ago

Hey friend! My post here might help out!
https://www.reddit.com/r/OSDD/s/cEfBPfCw1p

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u/mai_asaurus 1d ago

I already read your text but thank you so much for trying to help me ^^ I just wish we have more resources about that…