Colonizationr/lgbt - I'm poly and one of my partners has DID (3 personalities. I'm dating all three of them and well... I just bought the ring! It's got each of their birth stones!

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[–]CancelPowerSuper Bi Male 18 insightful - 1 fun18 insightful - 0 fun19 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Jesus Christ, you NEVER see this in a normal straight or gay relationship. I don't want to be an ableist, truly, but I have no idea how this would even work. Even the idea of it creeps me out, especially when DID is not recognized by many medical professionals as a legitimate mental disorder (gonna wait to study it in psychiatry to be 100% sure though) I mean it IS a mental disorder, it's in the DSM but most people don't have it for real which is where all the debate about its validity comes from.

At this point, this is literally 2 people being mentally ill and delusional playing pretend. It keeps getting more and more degenerate.

[–]lunarstrain 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

especially when DID is not recognized by many medical professionals as a legitimate mental disorder

I wish more people knew this. It's really hard to learn about the condition and the beliefs around it because of how much fake shit is out there now. I only know as much as I do because I ran into a faker before faking the condition was as popular so the few resources that existed weren't biased and filled with garbage like they are today.

[–]ChunkeeguyTeam T*RF Fuck Yeah[S] 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

DID is real, incredibly rare and does not present as anything resembling the popular culture/TikTok fiction we are seeking today.

[–]lunarstrain 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I recently got the opportunity to sit in on a friend's online psychology class where they talked about the condition and the professor made a point to say multiple times that it's a controversial diagnosis. From what I read in the past, some psychologists feel that the symptoms of DID have too much overlap with things like Borderline Personality Disorder and Schizophrenia to properly diagnose it as a separate condition.

You're totally right that if it is a real condition it is nothing like what TikTok portrays. I've seen PTSD dissociative episodes which are somewhat similar and they can get very ugly.

[–]ChunkeeguyTeam T*RF Fuck Yeah[S] 7 insightful - 7 fun7 insightful - 6 fun8 insightful - 7 fun -  (0 children)

This sub is a great source of head-shaking amusement and jaw-dropping disbelief if you're not already aware of it.

[–]Virginia_Plain 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'd imagine that for a legitimate sufferer, if any exist, the other personalities wouldn't cheerily announce themselves in the way these "multiple system" people tend to.