Sperging about if DID exists

[Flaming_Barghast]

I am absolutely sick of the munchie thread getting drowned in retardation, so sperg here about if DID is real or whatever.

 

[Sexy Senior Citizen]

Here is the definitive, thread-ending answer:

Dissociative Identity Disorder is a real thing. However, it is vanishingly rare, and 99.9999% of people claiming to have it don't. They just want updoots and asspats, which is why they're all self-diagnosed.

There is exactly one medically verified case I am aware of: Kim Noble, a woman who underwent unspecified abuse that manifests in the form of 13 distinct personalities and the art they produce.

 

[ConsentAccidentVictimNo98]

Help I think I have DID. I have an alter that goes onto the Kiwi Farms and spews a bunch of slurs and it has ruined my life because it turned me into a hateful nazi biggot.

 

[Illuminati Order Official]

It's like transsexualism: something that happens very rarely but every retard who wants to make their life appear more interesting can easily fake.

 

[KittyGremlin]

Here is the definitive, thread-ending answer:

Dissociative Identity Disorder is a real thing. However, it is vanishingly rare, and 99.9999% of people claiming to have it don't. They just want updoots and asspats, which is why they're all self-diagnosed.

There is exactly one medically verified case I am aware of: Kim Noble, a woman who underwent unspecified abuse that manifests in the form of 13 distinct personalities and the art they produce.

I know a person with DID. A telltale sign from fakers is extreme issues with memory. They genuinely don't remember 80% of last few days and can often have entire chunks of life go missing from their memory.

 

[Toolbox]

Help I think I have DID. I have an alter that goes onto the Kiwi Farms and spews a bunch of slurs and it has ruined my life because it turned me into a hateful nazi biggot.

D-dididdi DID I DO THAT?

 

[Sexy Senior Citizen]

Help I think I have DID. I have an alter that goes onto the Kiwi Farms and spews a bunch of slurs and it has ruined my life because it turned me into a hateful nazi biggot.

Funny that. I have DID and an alter too. My alter is named Bigot Smalls.

 

[Swordsman]

My avatar may or may not have it.

 

[Claude Sigma]

 

[FatalTater]

Hmm.
Internet is forever you say?
Lots of shit easily traced back to me is out there you say?
Um.
I have an evil twin? And... they live in my body and know all my usernames and passwords?
Heh yeah. They're basically me but I can in no way be held responsible for anything they did when I, I mean they, thought they were anonymous.

 

[ReVeRaNd DoCtOr]

I must have DID. There is no other explanation for taking the mickey out of people behind their backs....

Unless I'm just a cunt.

 

[std::string]

Here is the definitive, thread-ending answer:

Dissociative Identity Disorder is a real thing. However, it is vanishingly rare, and 99.9999% of people claiming to have it don't. They just want updoots and asspats, which is why they're all self-diagnosed.

There is exactly one medically verified case I am aware of: Kim Noble, a woman who underwent unspecified abuse that manifests in the form of 13 distinct personalities and the art they produce.

They hit the real cases with fMRIs every once in a while and there's definitely something going on with their brains.

I've never seen a real case personally but I've got to see a lot of Korsakoff so I'm not surprised your brain can glitch out.

 

[Sexy Senior Citizen]

They hit the real cases with fMRIs every once in a while and there's definitely something going on with their brains.

I've never seen a real case personally but I've got to see a lot of Korsakoff so I'm not surprised your brain can glitch out.

Spoiler: I'm not a doctor or a psychologist. Take my theory with a pinch of salt

My theory is that, for DID to manifest, some kind of traumatic, mind-breaking abuse has to take place in childhood, when your identity is forming. New identities form around the splintered remains, and each one "matures" at a different rate, or fails to mature at all, depending on the individual in question (theoretically, it should be possible for a DID personality to manifest as a child- not some kind of sexual kink, but a literal child who has no clue why they're in an adult body.)

While all abuse is horrible and should be condemned, it takes a special kind of evil to break a child like this.

 

[Soggy paper straw]

Spoiler: I'm not a doctor or a psychologist. Take my theory with a pinch of salt

My theory is that, for DID to manifest, some kind of traumatic, mind-breaking abuse has to take place in childhood, when your identity is forming. New identities form around the splintered remains, and each one "matures" at a different rate, or fails to mature at all, depending on the individual in question (theoretically, it should be possible for a DID personality to manifest as a child- not some kind of sexual kink, but a literal child who has no clue why they're in an adult body.)

While all abuse is horrible and should be condemned, it takes a special kind of evil to break a child like this.

But - how is that DID? How it is different from a more consistent psychotic break where you switch between thinking you are Napoleon to not?

Basically, I think something "like DID" exists, but it is not a completely different diagnosis and should not be because you can see many cases online of people pretending they have it and thus further ruining their mental health. [Think anorexic girls thinking they need to try harder because they are not in the BMI range to truly be anorexic -- bmi requirements have now been removed, but no, Tess would still not be diagnosed with it, you still need to actually be losing weight]

It's like those munchies that take so many unnecessary strong medications that those meds cause them problems, so they end up actually having real issues.
With psychological disorders, you can become mentally ill because you think you are (e.g. depression and anxiety get reinforced through rumination), mimicking those behaviours will ingrain them in your normal behaviour (e.g. tiktok and tourette-like symptoms/stims).

They genuinely don't remember 80% of last few days and can often have entire chunks of life go missing from their memory.

Why should this be explained by "DID" and not something else?

 

[GenociderSyo]

I have worked in psychology with disability and seriously mental illness for over 20 years. During that ENTIRE time I have run into 2 cases of DID and one case of DDNOS. I have not run into any new cases of Dissociative Disorders for about 5 years now. I've posted in the DID threads about it before, but real DID does not present like the munchies make it seem. DID at its core is amnesia of events between personality states. A personality state doesn't mean your going to be talking to miss mary sue a 5 year old and an 85 year old tree demon. It's moreso that when your doing therapy they truly do NOT remember the events of the abuse until the personality state allows them too. There's no magic switches, etc.

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.

They also HATE how they are portrayed in media and online. DID exists to protect someone its not some show to people who have it its a very hard way for them to live.

According to DSM this is prevalance of DID though they admit that it is hard to know where in the range it actually falls due to misdiagnosing and misleading diagnosis.
"The number of psychiatric patients with DID may range from 0.4% to 7.5%, the general population prevalence may range from 0.4% to 3.1%."

I wrote in another thread years ago about how the current main doctor for DID diagnosiing had lost his license.

Faking DID is so commonplace that the DSM-V has an entire section about figuring out if a patient is faking.
"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.""

 

[General Disarray]

Here is the definitive, thread-ending answer:

Dissociative Identity Disorder is a real thing. However, it is vanishingly rare, and 99.9999% of people claiming to have it don't. They just want updoots and asspats, which is why they're all self-diagnosed.

There is exactly one medically verified case I am aware of: Kim Noble, a woman who underwent unspecified abuse that manifests in the form of 13 distinct personalities and the art they produce.

I knew that name sounded familiar. Her works show her disassociation while being abused as a child (and the Podesta brothers are big fans). In this and other instances where a child is utterly broken via abuse, I can see how disassociation can happen. I did some art therapy when I was younger and it's amazing what can come out when you are faced with a blank canvas. You don't know why you're drawing the subject matter you chose and it's quite illuminating what your subconscious can bring to the surface.

That being said, I agree with others that state it's vanishingly rare; stats I read somewhere show it's a fraction of a percent of all people presenting with associated symptoms (which only represent 1.5-5 percent of the total population themselves).

 

[KittyGremlin]

@Soggy paper straw , @GenociderSyo put it pretty well. real DID has a lot in common and has similar moving parts to PTSD but the key difference is the inconsistent sense of self due to fragmented "present" state of mind. I've known two people with this disorder before the mental illness craze started and it is far from the flashy personality quirk TikTok retards try to portray it as.

 

[Sexy Senior Citizen]

But - how is that DID? How it is different from a more consistent psychotic break where you switch between thinking you are Napoleon to not?

(I'm not a brain doctor, so my explanations are not scientific and are probably inaccurate.)
Psychotic breaks are temporary, and your brain usually recovers, more or less. DID is permanent, since it happened during a formative stage of your life.

Another critical part of DID is the amnesia. Your various identities are often unaware of each other unless specifically told. The DID brain retains different memories for different personalities, and when one personality is "in charge" the others go dormant, sort of like falling asleep.

For example, let's take someone with DID who has two personalities: Jim and Bob. Jim enjoys reading Shakespeare, and so goes out and buys Shakespeare's books from the bookstore. Bob enjoys alcohol to excess, and often gets drunk. When Jim wakes up in control, Jim has no idea how he got the hangover or where the beer cans came from. When Bob is in control, he has no clue how Macbeth and Othello got into the house, especially since he has no memory buying them. Unless a third party steps in and explains what's happening Jim and Bob will continue to live in confusion. If it's explained (and more importantly, accepted by both personalities), Jim and Bob can "communicate" by leaving notes for each other, coordinate their actions, and otherwise live a somewhat normal life.