Exxxxactly. And the fact that she was “lol-ing” about it shortly after it happened, even though she attempted suicide 4 times in 24 hours, girl why are you not in a psychiatric ward on suicide watch. You have genuinely concerned friends here yet still make it into a jocular thing, even though everyone according to sources on this forum were warned not to go near the lake or they may face expulsion.
There's also screenshots of her old social media complaining about how hard college is. Idk, seems like she didn't want to go anymore and "I wasn't allowed back" is a damn good way to get out of finishing while still pretending to be an authority on the subject you were "trying" to get a PhD in.
Considering that it’s so similar to other disorders (ptsd, dissociative amnesia, bpd), has many topics no experts can unanimously agree on, and is fabricated and sensationalized by people online, I see where you’re coming from. However, I think some children actually experience such extreme trauma, dissociative survival mechanisms are the only resort they have.
I think the main issue is that DID as an idea is perfectly logical. It's dissociative amnesia and depersonalization/derealization both, and chronically.
The problem is that clinicians who believe in the Sybils of the world will diagnose cases like Chloe and ignore all signs that it's malingering, or worse, become so voyeuristic of it that they cause the symptoms themselves. Most clinicians that believe it's just dissociative amnesia with DPDR find other diagnoses to be more helpful for treatment plans.
Cooking sherry.
But, seriously, how the hell is someone with 62 alters even able to function? Especially if they’re “co-conscious”, that’s a lot of noise going on in your head.
Is Sherry the cat?
And seriously, they wouldn't be able to. A lot of these people, Chloe included, make room for what they literally refer to as "NPCs". As in Non-Player Characters. From role-playing games. :internal-screaming:
children will flee into their inner world, when being exposed to prelonged abuse. at least I heard that from people experiencing it during their childhood, cause they would go insane if not going there and spiraling into their fantasy to blend out reality. PTSD for sure, no DID tho.
This isn't necessarily the way it works.
There are, as far as I know, three things that children do, all of which qualify as dissociating.
1) Focus intently on something in the place where they are. Say vertical blinds in a bedroom, for example. This is the same kind of dissociating you might do if you are trying to solve a mathematical problem that requires abstract thought. These victims recall their abuse, but can only visually recall the vertical blinds.
2) Completely suppress all sensory information entirely. This is a dissociative episode that can cause localized amnesia of the event. This involves a total loss of recall, but not a loss of knowing. This is the space where it is theorized that a fragment of their identity would be unable to integrate with the rest of their identity with continued abuse, and without early intervention.
3) Imagine they are somewhere else with their imaginary friends, and possibly an imaginary world. They know that this is imaginary. These victims recall their abuse, but have no visual recall.
I'm not an expert, so there may be others, but these are three I have heard of first-hand (repeatedly, from multiple people), and confirmed with research.
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Also, I don't understand why all these new people are blacking out peoples' usernames and avatars on PUBLIC SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS. ARE YOU LOST
