What to do with multiple personality disorders and different "alters"?

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DiD (Dissociative Identity Disorder) is a very rare condition that has been over diagnosed (self diagnosed) by, usually, teens testing different personalities and trying to figure out who they want to be. They've turned a serious disorder into a fun quirky role play sort of thing. It's super insulting to the rare individual who actually has it. For those who legitimately have DiD, it's usually a trauma response to something that happened as a young child. The brain tries to protect itself by creating an alter to store those trauma memories so the "host" doesn't have to remember them.

See https://www.reddit.com/r/DIDCringe/. So many teen girls fake it and it's become a bit of a trend, especially on TikTok.

It's completely normal for teenagers to "try on" different personalities for a while as they figure out who they are (jock, prep, etc). Unfortunately, this is a new method for that and it's really insulting to those who do suffer from DiD.

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(From what I know about this subject at least) in case of real sufferers of DID the alters do not know about eachother. Switches between alters happen suddenly, uncontrolably whenever a subject is exposed to something related to their trauma.

What should be a red flag imo is:

  • In case of many teenage girls on tiktok alters always know about eachother, agree to ''front'' if something bad happens or even at will/when they're asked to.

  • Each and EVERY alter whether human or not ALWAYS has their own set of special pronouns.

  • Alters (and the host) know how other alters/host look like. I even saw tiktoks where picrew images of diffrent alters were made. Alters can look COMPLETELY diffrent from the host

  • Talking about alters, one of the main concerning things should be that often alters of DID fakers are the opposite gender or other made up ''non binary'' one. Alters of DID fakers can be also nonhuman or diffrent ages than the host (there is even such thing as ''littles'')

  • The existence of ''fictive'' alters (fictional characters as alters) or even real life people alters (like Dream SMP alters)

I haven't got any other examples. Correct me if I'm wrong!