My multiple personalities and me

[dodosarecool]

On 5star now...

I thought multiple personality disorder had been debunked and thrown away??

Have I got that totally wrong then? I thought the Sybil character from the old documentary was found to be faking it?

Nobody watching?

I'm watching but can't wrap my head around it. I really want to believe them but I'm struggling. They all seem very damaged indeed.

I missed the beginning, are they all victims of trauma?

Its not been debunked its been renamed as there is a better understanding of it now. Hence why its called Dissociative Identity Disorder.

Yes all of them have suffered trauma.

Yes I knew it had been renamed to DID but I thought I heard somewhere they'd done away with the idea of multiple personalities and systems existing truthfully

www.mind.org.uk/information-support/types-of-mental-health-problems/dissociative-disorders/dissociative-disorders/

Must have got it wrong! Mind seems to agree it exists in the way MPD did

Haven't watched it but DID is very real (I'm a trauma therapist)

Was the RL Sybil character faking it then? Where did I get that idea from?!

It's very rare and caused by extreme childhood trauma but its real.

It's just dissociated states of a persons identity. It makes complete sense when you know about how the brain copes with trauma (think of the stereotypical idea of someone experiencing trauma and some will describe "floating outside my body, watching it as if it was happening to someone else"? It's just an extreme version of that really because it happened so young and the person will have been repeatedly traumatised so the brain did this over and over again until the "it happened to someone else" becomes someone else in the mind and splits off from the 'host' entirely)

I believe the person called Sybil was faking it as she admitted it later on. However, it doesnt mean people living with now are. 1% of the UKs population living with this condition and its very hard to get a diagnosis. As there is a huge amount of skeptism.

How interesting! I wonder why some people develop it and some don't... you'd think there would be a higher percentage of people with it tbh given how many people experience trauma in childhood

It's interesting that the personalities can be both sexes too regardless of what the host is and how the girls seemed to know what they all looked like in their own minds

dodosarecool I believe its a lot more common then people think. However, its near impossible to get a diagnosis and people spend up 7 years in the mental health system before they do.

Its alot more common in women than men. Its a fight and flight response to near shattering trauma. Its interesting the way that people fragment.

I am watching and a little frustrated... i know people with DID and the exageration of 400 personalities are just a joke and they are making a mokery of the disorder.

I actually think I've seen it before - media representations of DID are often so inaccurate. It's so sad because people with DID often experience people disbelieving then and shame and the media often doesn't help this.

Your right @sourpatchkid. Its taken me 10 years to get a diagnosis on paper. @JKirkdale it is possible to have that many but its called Polyfragmented DID.