September 2024
I am a critic of the diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder. Although I accept that I have the underlying disorder that the label of DID is attempting to describe, I strongly disagree with how the disorder is understood, conceptualized, and portrayed. It took me a long time to accept this, and I was very confused by what DID was and how it presents for over a year after my diagnosis. It was only once I realized that I am experiencing the exact same things that others who present their disorder as being more florid are experiencing, I’m just interpreting and portraying my experiences differently did this diagnosis make sense to me—I am not someone who is dramatic or easily influenced by culture, yet culture greatly influences how DID presents.
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10 minutes
June 2024
DID is (mostly) a culture-bound disorder
It’s been nearly 2.5 years since I first started my DID self discovery journey, and in that time I’ve gained massive amounts of insight into how my early childhood experiences have shaped my way of experiencing the world. Before I gained this insight, however, came confusion. Specifically, I truly didn’t understand how this fantastical-sounding diagnosis of DID that had been given to me by multiple mental health professionals applied to me and my experiences.
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3 minutes