Dissociative identity disorder on tumblr - Self-dx fun times

I will use the word they in here only due to the fact that I want to be as careful as possible to not disclose any information.

It's crazy that people would pretend to have a disorder caused by extreme abuse. I work with severe mental illness and disabilities and in the entire time I've only had two clients who could be diagnosed with D.I.D. and one who was diagnosed DD-NOS. They did not come in a different person every day and every one of them was diagnosed with PTSD as well. The DD-NOS diagnosis was specifically made because they showed signs of dissociation, but they lacked the age of abuse and inability to remember events, specifically in childhood, required for D.I.D.

If they were triggered during our talk yes they would state change, but it's hard to explain how it presents in real life cause its not some showy thing like media says. Think of having a discussion with someone and they get to a topic and blank slate on you. Their affect would either be blunted or exaggerated and when the memory was over they may have been a bit disorganized, but it was not suddenly another person in the room.

This is a very controversial diagnosis, and you see surges of people self-diagnosing it after media comes out focused on it. After United States of Tara came out we had an influx of people who were self-diagnosers. And there are doctors who will never diagnose it because you don't "treat" for D.I.D. you treat for the symptoms it causes the PTSD aspects. There is no medication that is going to magically stop dissociation or depersonalization, its therapy and a hell of a lot of it to deal with the situations that happened.
 
I will use the word they in here only due to the fact that I want to be as careful as possible to not disclose any information.

It's crazy that people would pretend to have a disorder caused by extreme abuse. I work with severe mental illness and disabilities and in the entire time I've only had two clients who could be diagnosed with D.I.D. and one who was diagnosed DD-NOS. They did not come in a different person every day and every one of them was diagnosed with PTSD as well. The DD-NOS diagnosis was specifically made because they showed signs of dissociation, but they lacked the age of abuse and inability to remember events, specifically in childhood, required for D.I.D.

If they were triggered during our talk yes they would state change, but it's hard to explain how it presents in real life cause its not some showy thing like media says. Think of having a discussion with someone and they get to a topic and blank slate on you. Their affect would either be blunted or exaggerated and when the memory was over they may have been a bit disorganized, but it was not suddenly another person in the room.

This is a very controversial diagnosis, and you see surges of people self-diagnosing it after media comes out focused on it. After United States of Tara came out we had an influx of people who were self-diagnosers. And there are doctors who will never diagnose it because you don't "treat" for D.I.D. you treat for the symptoms it causes the PTSD aspects. There is no medication that is going to magically stop dissociation or depersonalization, its therapy and a hell of a lot of it to deal with the situations that happened.

Frankly having a tumblr account should be used in a differential diagnosis to eliminate virtually all tumblr bullshit. If someone starts rattling off bullshit and play-acting at multiple personalities, "do you have a tumblr account" should be sufficient to eliminate it.
 
Frankly having a tumblr account should be used in a differential diagnosis to eliminate virtually all tumblr bullshit. If someone starts rattling off bullshit and play-acting at multiple personalities, "do you have a tumblr account" should be sufficient to eliminate it.
You are completely right on that one, none of these people wanted it to be known they were diagnosed with the disorder, nor had any desire to showcase it.
 
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If any brave soul dares venture into this particular cesspit here ya go:
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Sorry faggots but I'm not going to hold your hand and jump.
 
This thread brings back memories of college. There was this boy, let's call him Johnson, that was sitting next to me. Seemed decent enough, we ended up talking and becoming class friends (people you are friends with in class but don't interact or talk outside of class). Anyway, one day he asked me out, which surprised me because he told me he was gay. I turned him down because I wasn't interested, and he acted like a real prick.

The next day he acted like nothing had happened. I ignored him because fuck him, I ain't gonna waste my time with someone who acts like an asshole. A day later he asked me if he had said something mean. He then explained he has MPD/DID and that he has 3 alters, one who is gay, one who is bi sexual, and one who is a pan sexual pervert named Chris. He told me it was Chris who asked me out and acted like a jerk, and apologized.

Later, I found Johnson's tumblr and according to his "about my alters" page, Chris is a pansexual 18 year old boy with a sex addition, who was born after Johnson was raped by his twin brother and older sister. Thing is, Johnson had told me he was a only child... so where did his twin brother and older sister bit come from?

Thank god this all happened at the end of semester, I only had to spend a couple of more weeks putting up with this pervert, after that I never saw or heard from him. Needless to say, I don't believe DID is a real thing, and if it is, people with DID don't hang out on Tumblr making posts about their alters.
 
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Thank god this all happened at the end of semester, I only had to spend a couple of more weeks putting up with this pervert, after that I never saw or heard from him. Needless to say, I don't believe DID is a real thing, and if it is, people with DID don't hang out on Tumblr making posts about their alters.

People who pretend to have fake DID should be given the option of shutting the fuck up with that bullshit or getting a lobotomy so they at least have brain damage as an excuse.
 
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I'm sitting with people right now so can't watch the video with audio right away but the girl just looks like Tumblr, glasses and middle classiness galore. I mean, if she has DID then that's awful but it's so fucking weird that all these Tumblrinas pretend to have DID. Check out her socials, creating an Instagram for your 'alters' as if they were your OC's in fan fics. Wow.

Also, slight derailing question for the more medical around us - can you have DID and not have multiple personalities? Like, can it genuinely just be a dissociative disorder where you struggle to ...connect...?

Edit: there's a newly uploaded house tour on her channel, again can't watch it with audio but she lives in a fucking gigantic house, I know being of a higher social class does not mean you're free from mental health issues but it's funny how privileged this little girl looks.
 
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More random stuff I found

System hopping: when your alters (which are formed in your brain) can go into other people's "systems" and vice versa


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Imagine dating someone like this

Oh, God. Sensible people on Tumblr who actually have DID say that system hopping is utter bullshit and if someone claims to do it then they're also bullshitting. These guys are like the Physical Shifters of the DID community.

Edit: Some proof
 
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I'm sitting with people right now so can't watch the video with audio right away but the girl just looks like Tumblr, glasses and middle classiness galore. I mean, if she has DID then that's awful but it's so fucking weird that all these Tumblrinas pretend to have DID. Check out her socials, creating an Instagram for your 'alters' as if they were your OC's in fan fics. Wow.

Also, slight derailing question for the more medical around us - can you have DID and not have multiple personalities? Like, can it genuinely just be a dissociative disorder where you struggle to ...connect...?

Edit: there's a newly uploaded house tour on her channel, again can't watch it with audio but she lives in a fucking gigantic house, I know being of a higher social class does not mean you're free from mental health issues but it's funny how privileged this little girl looks.

the thing that really makes me doubt her is the fact that she "switched" so many times in a single day, knew exactly who switched and exactly when, each time, and that multiple alters were somehow all onboard with being in the video, much less showing themselves. people with genuine DID aren't exactly open books about it, and the alters are even less likely to be that way.

not even gonna bother watching her house tour, i can tell i'll just chimp out. i completely agree that being privileged =/= zero possibility of ever being traumatized, but jesus

and to answer your question: dissociative disorders without the presence of split personalities absolutely exist. things like derealization and depersonalization fall into that category. DID at its core is just a VERY extreme dissociative disorder, to put it simply, which is why it's so uncommon and just cannot develop without severe, repeated traumatic experiences.
 
I think what makes it hard for me to take a lot of DID people seriously is that it seems like they "Switch" whenever they experience an emotion. Like, Happy Annie is not actually Annie being happy, oh god this emotion cant be me, therefore I'm going to label it as a 7 year old named James. Which, granted, fits entirely within the realm of what dissociation IS, but I can't help but wonder how many people fall into this category outside of the roleplayers we generally see in this thread.
 
DID at its core is just a VERY extreme dissociative disorder, to put it simply, which is why it's so uncommon and just cannot develop without severe, repeated traumatic experiences.
This just goes to show that these folk don't even do the thorough research before faking/bastardizing it. It seems more like people fake to avoid responsibility and accountability than to garner attention. Can't tell you how many posts I've seen that go: "STOP BLAMING YOUR ALTERS FOR SHIT!!!!!!"
 
This just goes to show that these folk don't even do the thorough research before faking/bastardizing it. It seems more like people fake to avoid responsibility and accountability than to garner attention. Can't tell you how many posts I've seen that go: "STOP BLAMING YOUR ALTERS FOR SHIT!!!!!!"
The DSM even has an entire section on fakers stating just that:

"Individuals who feign DID do not report the subtle symptoms of intrusion characteristic of the disorder; instead they tend to overreport well-publicized symptoms of the disorder, such as dissociative amnesia, while underreporting less-publicized comorbid symptoms, such as depression. Individuals who feign DID tend to be relatively undisturbed by or may even seem to enjoy "having" the disorder. In contrast, individuals with genuine DID tend to be ashamed of and overwhelmed by their symptoms and to underreport their symptoms or deny the condition. Sequential observation, corroborating history, and intensive psychometric and psychological assessment may be helpful in assessment.

Individuals who malinger DID usually create limited, stereotyped alternative identities, with feigned amnesia, related to events for which gain is sought. For example, they may present an "all-good" identity and an "all-bad" identity in hopes of gaining exculpation from a crime."
 
I met one person online who claimed they had DID but refused to call it a disorder, and they used terms like "headmate", "meatspace" and "terrafirma". They had names and fursonas for their alters. It was so cringey but I humored them so I could learn more. I hadn't been talking to them for very long, but it sounded like bullshit to me. I had a friend from highschool who was officially diagnosed with MPD and she actually showed signs of it, like the disassociating, childhood trauma, and memory loss.
 
Mobile and at work so I’ll edit later with even more creencaps and links.

Apparently the chick mentioned on the other thread (Cambrian Crew) is an entire 32 years old, all of her “headmates” act exactly the fucking same, and supposedly she not only has paid for a therapist, but when her therapist tried to tell her she didn’t fit the diagnosis, she vehemently insisted she had DID, but had NO trauma whatsoever. Even says it’s not possible she repressed something. I feel bad for her therapist.

She’s been accused of pedophilia before, so she openly advertises on her tumblr that she’s most assuredly NOT a pedophile, she just thinks it’s fine to do whatever you want in fiction (and I’ve been told she frequently interacts with “no-contact MAPs”).

She’s endogenic, meaning she only has non-intrusive DID symptoms (aka malingering).

Also, she’s a stalker and I saw something about block evading on her page.

Truly, a gold mine. I would say she’s a personal cow, but teeeeechnically she’s multiple personal cows.

Tumblr is http://cambriancrew.tumblr.com
Her Twitter is http://twitter.com/jsheaforrest
 
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Honestly the whole concept of DID is just so fucking stupid. It’s not real. I’m usually pretty accepting of mental illnesses but this one is 100% bullshit.

I will accept any other mental illness. Depression, bipolar, schizophrenia, what the fuck ever, those all make some kind of sense, but DID is 100% bullshit. Mood swings make sense, so do hallucinations, especially since drugs can make those things occur too. Which shows it can be influenced by what chemicals are going off in your noggin.

But how the fuck do you suddenly “become a 7 year old girl with a totally different outlook on life and different likes and dislikes”. It doesn’t happen, or if it does it’s some kind of psychosis thing? I guess? Like you’re deluded that you are a 7 year old? Or maybe you pretend to be a 7 year old to cope with trauma. But there’s not actually an entire other being stored up inside someone’s head??? They’re still the same person. So when these people try to get mad about how you have to respect all the “people” in their “system” it just makes me roll my eyes. It’s them playing pretend behind a computer screen. These are not separate people, this is a game for attention and I will never accept this disorder or take it seriously.

The whole thing has no fucking evidence that’s substantial. In fact, I heard somewhere that it only occurs in western nations, which screams fake to me. The fact it’s occurances/frequency at which people are diagnosed with it spikes when movies with it come out is very suspect too.

It’s a load of bullshit and none of it is real.
 
Honestly the whole concept of DID is just so fucking stupid. It’s not real. I’m usually pretty accepting of mental illnesses but this one is 100% bullshit.

I will accept any other mental illness. Depression, bipolar, schizophrenia, what the fuck ever, those all make some kind of sense, but DID is 100% bullshit. Mood swings make sense, so do hallucinations, especially since drugs can make those things occur too. Which shows it can be influenced by what chemicals are going off in your noggin.

But how the fuck do you suddenly “become a 7 year old girl with a totally different outlook on life and different likes and dislikes”. It doesn’t happen, or if it does it’s some kind of psychosis thing? I guess? Like you’re deluded that you are a 7 year old? Or maybe you pretend to be a 7 year old to cope with trauma. But there’s not actually an entire other being stored up inside someone’s head??? They’re still the same person. So when these people try to get mad about how you have to respect all the “people” in their “system” it just makes me roll my eyes. It’s them playing pretend behind a computer screen. These are not separate people, this is a game for attention and I will never accept this disorder or take it seriously.

The whole thing has no fucking evidence that’s substantial. In fact, I heard somewhere that it only occurs in western nations, which screams fake to me. The fact it’s occurances/frequency at which people are diagnosed with it spikes when movies with it come out is very suspect too.

It’s a load of bullshit and none of it is real.

A number of sub-Saharan African cultures believe in the possibility to house multiple spirits in one body, and it’s a common spiritual practice in places there. The concept of a “Tulpa”, as many tumblrinas have appropriated, came from Tibet and was a rite of passage in which you created a separate being in your mind, and then killed it. Many cases of identity disorders in places of the world are mistaken still for possession as they historically have been.

Before you whine about western culture at least whine about something that’s accurate.
 
Honestly the whole concept of DID is just so fucking stupid. It’s not real. I’m usually pretty accepting of mental illnesses but this one is 100% bullshit.

I will accept any other mental illness. Depression, bipolar, schizophrenia, what the fuck ever, those all make some kind of sense, but DID is 100% bullshit. Mood swings make sense, so do hallucinations, especially since drugs can make those things occur too. Which shows it can be influenced by what chemicals are going off in your noggin.

But how the fuck do you suddenly “become a 7 year old girl with a totally different outlook on life and different likes and dislikes”. It doesn’t happen, or if it does it’s some kind of psychosis thing? I guess? Like you’re deluded that you are a 7 year old? Or maybe you pretend to be a 7 year old to cope with trauma. But there’s not actually an entire other being stored up inside someone’s head??? They’re still the same person. So when these people try to get mad about how you have to respect all the “people” in their “system” it just makes me roll my eyes. It’s them playing pretend behind a computer screen. These are not separate people, this is a game for attention and I will never accept this disorder or take it seriously.

The whole thing has no fucking evidence that’s substantial. In fact, I heard somewhere that it only occurs in western nations, which screams fake to me. The fact it’s occurances/frequency at which people are diagnosed with it spikes when movies with it come out is very suspect too.

It’s a load of bullshit and none of it is real.
Good thing you're not a psychologist/psychiatrist that practices within dissociative disorders. You can say whatever you want on the internet, and yet, still say dumb shit.

No matter how you feel about it, DID is very real, and rare. But still real, if you believe and understand dissociation, it's not hard to understand how DID comes into play.
 
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