Most of you have a fundamental misunderstanding of how the OSDD diagnosis works.
I am starting to get really frustrated with the OSDD arguments stemming from the CDD stuff. This post isn't about that but I feel like most of you are parroting stuff about OSDD from other people online with little understanding of how the OSDD diagnoses actually work.
1. OSDD 1a and OSDD 1b literally do not exist. That is outdated terminology like using DDNOS or MPD. It is fine as a community term but stop acting like it is a real diagnostic term. The only time 1a and 1b were used was back when it was considered DDNOS.
2. Technically the numbered diagnosis doesn't necessarily exist either. A clinician can choose to use a numbered diagnosis like OSDD1 if they want to, to be faster but they don't have to. Also the numbers can be useful for some. But technically they are meant to write the exact reason they are diagnosing OSDD instead of another dissociative disorder all the way out. Like someones records could say : OSDD, mixed dissociative symptomology, alternations of identity, no amnesia reported. (I am not sure if thats exactly how it would be worded as I am not a clinician, I am making this post after talking to my psychologist for a bit about this all.)
4. "Examples," The numbers are only examples of presentations or suggestions for the clinician to use when specifying what OSDD presentation someone has. Technically the clinician could specify a whole different reason or presentation than the ones that are on here.
Just wanted to get this out for now. I would recommend reading the yellow box because it explains what I was talking about. (This is an excerpt specifically from the DSM 5TR)
I am going to come back and add a bunch more stuff tomorrow but I need to go to bed now.
Here is me adding a little more actually about the CDD thing.
A lot of you have a kind of narrow view of the OSDD category because of using the numbers. OSDD is meant to be an "other" category for literally any number of presentations of dissociative disorders that do not fit into the other diagnoses. The argument of what OSDD diagnosis fit into a CDD and what doesn't is kind of silly because it will vary on a case to case basis. Not every case will fit perfectly into the examples given in the DSM and two people who fit into a single number presentation may vary wildly in symptomology.