anonnie
June 23, 2025 at 1:10:31 AM
i read your extended and if you don’t mind, why don’t you think osdd can be polyfragmented, and why was polyfragmented in quotes? to be clear i myself am not an osdd system, i’m just curious! i find that a lot of people tend to make out osdd and did to be similar in ways like that, and i’m surprised to see someone who doesn’t feel that way! by ‘like that’ i mean that people say certain things present in did can apply to osdd as well.
Replied on: June 23, 2025 at 1:23:08 AM
hii !! essentially, what’s known as complexity or polyfragmentation is something that has only been documented in cases of DID (C-DID is a differentiator that is sometimes put on medical documentation, meaning it’s its own diagnosis). DID is a form of tertiary structural dissociation, which is seen in the higher numbers of anps and eps, as well as a heavy focus on amnesia barriers, layers, alter complexity, fragment counts and the presence of full switches. i put polyfragmented in quotation marks as it’s not a medical term! i don’t use it personally as i like to maintain a medical view of my disorder, although i won’t judge someone else for using it.
as osdd is a form of secondary structural dissociation, the facets of the disorder such as only experiencing emotional amnesia in the case of ‘1b’, and having a permanent host in ‘1a’, are fundamentally different to features of complex (polyfrag) DID! as well as this, osdd in itself is the diagnosis, and medical professionals do not actually differentiate between things such as 1a and 1b. as well as this, not every case of osdd causes someone to have their parts differentiate into what’s known to be alters, as they may have been older when experiencing trauma, or their personality still integrated correctly after 9. in fact, osdd is on the same level of structural dissociation as bpd and cptsd!
DID and osdd are actually fundamentally different disorders, despite similarities in that the person’s eps and anps differentiated into their own perceived personalities. i hope this makes sense! the theory of structural dissociation is a special interest of mine ^_^ osdd in itself does not necessarily mean someone will even have alters (osdd2, 3, 4), meaning that even in cases where someone does have alters (osdd1), polyfragmentation is not possible due to every iteration of osdd being secondary structural dissociation