I already said I watch the channel dude, I wouldn't say I'm a fan but the channel itself is informative as it links a lot of studies when talking about dissociation and childhood trauma theory. The studies that she features are a very interesting read and are more useful than just anecdotal evidence. I don't really give 2 shits about he relationship with Nan, I'm not one for uwu lovey dovey cringe, I just watch the trauma and dissociation related videos.
Nope don't know her at all. I'm defending her because from a psychiatric standpoint her symptoms check out, that's all. I've seen how childhood trauma can fuck up someone to the point of severe dissociation related illness IRL, not DID to my knowledge mind you, but amnesia and CPTSD.
I don't believe anybody on the internet 100%, hense why I said to the OP here I would like them to do more research, make the post more convincingly worded in places and source more evidence other than opinion that she is faking. If you were reading some kind of encyclopedia you wouldn't have it asking people to confirm stuff because you don't know enough about it, so I really want OP to get their facts straight and make the article read a bit more professional. I would be open to changing my mind on this with enough evidence, but at the moment the 'sketchiness' of her symptoms still line up on a psychiatric level.
- Personality, as in how you see yourself/view others/morals etc, is very much documented in psychiatry as being related social development. I would say look at anything child development theory wise other than Frued for evidence of that, especially things like attachment theory. If personality is genetic, conditions such as attachment disorders shouldn't develop how they do. Personality disorders are potentially partly genetic, as it's more common to develop one with a close relative having one themselves, but your actual sense of self develops from socialisation (both in the theoretical sense of learning and in the actual sense of socialising with others). DID is said to develop specifically in a combination of having severe trauma and irregular attachments with your primary care givers, along with I assume some kind of genetic factors as still not everyone who goes through situations like that will even develop PTSD let alone a full blown dissociative disorder.
I'm gonna say what I said earlier in that if people want to get into the validity of the disorder as a whole in happy to debate over DM as to not shit up the thread. What I will say though is psychosis and dissociative related symptoms are really different. People with legitimate DID don't believe they are actually multiple people or animals etc, even Chloe has said so in her own content. They have fragmented parts that the brain has processed into the form of alters to deal with severe trauma, dissociated away from the fact the trauma has happened to the person directly and developed by the mind of a child, meaning a lot of it is very much rooted in semi-fantastical logic which can lead to non-human alters.
Child alters are something that are seen in the majority of cases of DID. I'll need to find a source on that, but I remember reading somewhere that most sufferers have at least one child-like alter, I assume because that part split off when the original trauma happened, but some people's alters seem to age up with the rest of the body whilst others stay stuck at that age. Again, there is probably a psychological reason for that, but I haven't read enough into it to know why personally yet.
