Hello!
You might be wondering why I am using the term "Polyfragmented OSDD-1b" and how that would even work.
Though frankly it's none of your business, I think the misinformation of "you can't be Polyfragmented and OSDD-1" is wrong so I thought I would take the time to explain my reasoning and why I believe that thought is misinformation.
What is being Polyfragmented, Anyway ?
The term "polyfragmented" is used clinically to refer to systems with over a 100 members or more, however through research studies and community observation there is a lot more that goes into being Polyfragmented then what first appears.
Basically, polyfragmentation is a group of traits related to the formation of new alters, the expensiveness & details of headspace, and the certain kinds of trauma that was dealt with by the system.
These traits tend to be, as listed:
- Lots of Fragments/"Partial Alters"
- Large Number of Alters
- Lots of Layers and/or Subsystems
- Easily able to split in and outside of Traumatic Experiences/Situations
- Tendency to split with "groups" of Alters, rather then one at a time.
- Many Doubles of Alters/Lots of Alters that do the same thing/have the same role
- Large and Active Headspaces
- Long Term Trauma that was integrated into everyday Life
- History of Ritual Abuse, or particularly vicious abuse
- A Small Fronting Group that acts similar to Non-Polyfragmented Systems.
You do not need to have all of these individual traits to be Polyfragmented
The only thing Clinically that would have you considered Polyfragmented is having over 100 alters.
The list above is simply major commonalities between polyfragmented systems.
What is OSDD-1 Anyways?
Otherwise Specified Dissociative Disorder-1 (previously known as Dissociative Disorder Not Otherwise Specified-1) is what is understood to be the transitional dissociative diagnosis listed in the DSM-V.
A "otherwise specified" disorder is a diagnosis given when someone has traits of a major listed disorder but does not completely quality for the diagnosis. This could be not having enough traits/symptoms, being too early in treatment to tell if those first seen/listed symptoms are accurate, and so on. I also call these "otherwise specified" disorders "transitional diagnoses" due to often times being the first thing diagnosed before a major disorder is later listed instead.
"Otherwise not Specified" works similarly within the DSM, but instead does not have a list of traits to fit. Instead these diagnoses are used to list a suspecting of traits, but just not specific ones. Hence why it is "not specified".
OSDD-1 is the DID's verison of this.
OSDD-1 is DID, just with a different expression of traits that makes it fall out of the official diagnosis. Mainly memory and Alter distinction. DID with both traits, with OSDD-1 having one or the other.
DID has amnesic barriers between 2 or more distinct different parts.
OSDD-1a has amnesic barriers between non-distinct parts.
OSDD-1b has little to no amnesic barriers between 2 or more distinct different parts.
Same if not similar symptoms, different expression of traits.
What is OSDD-1 Anyways?
Links to Organize later
Pluralpedia
https://pluralpedia.org/w/Polyfragmented#cite_note-Kluft-1
https://pluralpedia.org/w/Layer
https://pluralpedia.org/w/Dissociative_Disorder_Not_Otherwise_Specified
Direct Sources
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/36679914.pdf
https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1794/1396/Diss_1_4_8_OCR_rev.pdf;sequence=4
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227691257_Dissociative_disorders_in_DSM-5
http://www.fortrefuge.com/DDspectrum.html
http://traumadissociation.com/alters#polyfragmented
http://traumadissociation.com/osdd.html
https://www.carolynspring.com/blog/did-or-osdd-does-it-matter/
What a Otherwise Specficed Disorder is