“Multiple personality disorder” probably doesn't exist
I&#x27;m friends with someone who has clinical DID. It is, as near as I can tell, not induced by media, etc, but by extreme and profound trauma.<p>&gt; The people who have traditionally been treated for DID have suffered, greatly, and not in the cool arty time-to-dye-my-hair-again type of suffering common to social media performance, but actual, painful, pitiable suffering. Those patients who have been diagnosed in the past with the disorder, by doctors, and who have spent years and years dealing with the consequences, are often truly debilitated people, whether the disorder itself is real or not. They require intense therapy, are often medicated with powerful drugs, and are frequently subject to long-term hospitalization. They tend to live broken and pain-filled lives, like most people with serious mental illness.<p>This is a relatively accurate description of their life. Clinical DID is not cute or something to parade in front of people you don&#x27;t know.<p>I have extraordinarily little interest in open DID fora like Reddit, because these fora don&#x27;t adequately encompass my friends&#x27; reality.