Aquire it (if the^ individual isn’t born with NEPD-O that is).
Sorry, I didn’t have the energy to go back and forth from working on a post to looking at my previous one to make sure there weren’t any errors. I just screen shotted and rewrote over the previous text in black. Hope this is okay anon!
Symptoms must include: Depersonalization; feeling like multiple, or feeling like one should be multiple people because one’s identity is too vast to belong to one person.
Feeling like ones identity is infinite and never-ending, causing one to not know who they are, or have difficulty knowing or understanding who they are (this could be a static, fluid, temporary symptom or one could feel this way all the time, etc).
Feeling like one has something missing in their identity; constantly needing more, something new to fill the void one feels inside oneself. This causes one to have difficulty fully identifying as something. Example; one may identify as something bisexual, but there is something missing, something more, something unknown to them.
Due to one having difficulty understanding who they are and/or what’s missing in their identity, one may hoard things like: genders, sexualities, vesil/vestility identities, etc. Hoarding these terms may or may not be/become an obsession.
Additional symptoms: Never-Ending Personality Disorder (NEPD) is caused by being “chronically online.” Because of this, one may or may not feel like their identity solely exists online. Or one may (or may not) feel like their identity is at its strongest when online.
People who have NEPD may also struggle to feel their identity unless they think about it. This can cause one to feel distressed by their lack of identity, making one obsess over ones identity/thinking about ones identity as much as one can.
NEPD can be caused by neurodivergence; developing NEPD because one becomes hyperfocused on a TV-series, game, app, or anything online for a significantly long period of time. The hyperfocus on feels about a certain form of media causes one to become completely enveloped in said media, making one lose their grip on reality. Or NEPD could be caused by ones other neurological disorder(s).
NEPD can also be caused by trauma; being online 24/7 to escape real life abusers/going on certain sites 24/7 because they know their abuser isn’t there. Or they feel like the only place one can gain validation (or whatever they’re after) is online, so one continues to go online to get validation (or other things) despite being verbally abused. Or any other kind of trauma I haven’t covered here.
It is unknown if one can have NEPD since birth, or if NEPD can develop for other reasons.
Edit because I want to make this disorder more accessible: NEPD-O (Never-Ending Personality Disorder Offline) is almost the same as NEPD. The only key difference at this time is that NEPD-O is not caused by being “chronically online,” but for other reasons specific to the individual. Some individuals with NEPD-O may not even know why they have NEPD-O or how they came to aquire it (if the individual isn’t born with NEPD-O that is).
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