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[–]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.