This is the best video I have seen about DID from a non DID specialist, you have a few small errors tho. We suffer from dissociative amnesia which is different from amnesia. The memory is still being encoded but in a personality that is not present. When we switch to that person the memory will be available again. Parts talking to each other is not a hallucination, it is a fragmented internal monologue. The onset is actually at the time of the trauma but it remains dormant until adulthood, my personal observation is that people become aware of their trauma/parts when they reach some kind of safety or someone in their life points out that they behave differently. I also disagree that the pathogenesis is unknown as the theory of Structural Dissociation perfectly describes how and why SD forms and how BPD, PTSD and DID relate and where they fall on the SD spectrum. Lastly I would like to say to those watching with DID that final fusion does not have to happen if you choose not to. However integration of memory and access to action systems via cooperative switching and internal communication is essential to healing from trauma and generally functioning without complete chaos! Hope this helps someone 💜
Thank you so much for this description! It’s perfectly aligned with what I experience. Diagnosed since 1990 and have an entire life time of having this extremely traumatic yet brilliant condition ❤
Thank you for covering DID in an accurate way. Many psychiatrists in America choose not to believe in it, which only makes them look foolish. It’s nice to see someone going into the psychiatric field actually not skip the paragraph on DID in their textbooks. It’s refreshing. Thanks. Maybe there is a little hope for humanity on this rock.
Just to add, not every system has the goal of total integration (fusion of all identities into a single alter), once your multiplicity become functional, the necessity to further the integration process becomes quite optional in my opinion, the focus can instead be moved to help the alters coexist in community, and to help the system learn better coping mechanisms to stress rather than spliting.
I agree, a lot of my personalities integrated because they wanted too, but I have 3 left that didn't want to integrate, they coexist quite well. When I have counsel people and their personalities, I let them choose what works best for them.
Did anyone else find the sound effects that go along with the titles terribly jarring, unpleasant, and distracting? It could just be me, I'm ND and have sound sensitivities. Very interesting video, it really helps explain how broad this diagnosis is. Trauma can really impact the brain in such diverse, profound, and lasting ways. I don't have DID, but I think I have experienced some kind of dissociation in states of emotional dysregulation, sensory overstimulation, or extreme fatigue. I think it may have developed as a way to help avoid having public meltdowns.
Thank you so much for this video. I watched the movie split during a very vulnerable time in my life. I was drinking, abusing prescription medications, and smoking an unhealthy amount of marijuana. That along with rarely leaving my room and house. Split scared me so much and after watching it, I kept having intrusive thoughts that I was a terrible person and had split personality disorder. These thoughts eventually consumed me and I was terrified of my self and lost touch with reality. Things eventually got better for me and I was able to combat those thoughts and now 2 years later I’m doing the best I have ever done in life. But I still sometimes have intrusive thoughts that I have multiple personalities, I’m not in control of my self, and that everyone around me knows I have DID except for me. Deep in my heart I know these thoughts aren’t true, but when they happen they’re scary and make my heart sink. I suspect I may have OCD given I cannot control these thoughts and the visceral reaction they give me. Your video is the validation I need after a bout of intrusive thoughts regarding DID I had the other day. I am one person, I am in control, and I’m well aware of all my actions. Thank you, again.
Hey Dr Syl,please make a video on Intrusive thoughts .I know there are a lot of videos out there but it would be very helpful coming from you ,I have watched a lot of your videos and it has helped me in gaining awarness regarding various mental health issues .A person close to me thinks there is something seriously wrong with him for having these disturbing thoughts,I have tried to help him understand what they are and have been fairly successful,I would like to make him think that they are just various scenarios created by brain and your contribution will be very helpful .A heartfelt thank you for making these videos .Have a Great Day . Happy New Year .
2:32 The way you explained this was extremely helpful in understanding DID for me. I’ve never heard it described as the one state being the traumatized part hence why the person can be very responsible and logical at times while others they aren’t. Massive lightbulb moment for me. Thank you!
I was diagnosed in 2022 while in the pych ward after a unaliving incident. Iv been treated and still am for C-CHT C-PTSD. Depression. Suicidal ideation and FND. It hard to manage life and be “normal” for ppl around me. My children are traumatised by my D.I.D personality’s ( John. -protector Suzy -happy funny and Paul -child who is always scared) I find I have to hide when I am disassociating to one of them. I wish I could get them understand, this is me. And I can not control it or help it. And I definitely did not ask for it or deserve any of this 😢 Thank you for you clear understanding information ❤
Kim nobles case has always made me want to know all i can about this disorder! The trauma she suffered over the length of time she suffered it meets the criteria! But not all children who suffered like her get it and it fascinates me so much! I wish i my adhd would allow me to focus on studied reading so that i could look at arguments both for and against the diagnostic criteria!, I wonder if i might ask, you know children that develop it from say “child sex trafficking” compared to a child that seemingly developed similar traits when they’ve only witnessed one traumatic event still should be classed as DID as a spectrum ? Also are their any studies on states of catatonic patients once they’re made aware of trauma that the alters are kept from ?
Attachment trauma, not having someone to process the trauma with makes us make a system to cope. So kids could go through horrible trauma but if they have a strong attachment figure they can process it with they may not develop DID.
With kids who seemed to only have a single trauma, its assumed that that child probably has a previous trauma they cant remember, I have DID friends who can't remember any of their trauma (which is what our systems have been designed to keep us safe from)
As someone diagnosed with did, I would like you to know not all of us have actual other personalities. For me I (my true self) shut down when things get rough. I go into a automatic mode. I go through life and will talk to my family but I'm rather emotionless. I have periods up to months that I don't remember. Along with the did I'm also bipolar with suicidal tendencies. Thankfully I have not had suicidal thoughts for years. Also ptsd. Thank you for bringing awareness to this disorder.
Yes, this is definitely an important point. I also am diagnosed with DID but have different personalities and my understanding is the way I experience the condition is less common. As in I have many distinctly different personalities, most have their own names and autonomy. I'm considered to be poly fragmented as we have different systems. So rather than having a "core" we have a default group of alters and that default set can change.
I would add that sometimes people are not aware of having other identities who become present when you are losing time and can’t remember. This is very common. Since the diagnosis requires two or more distinct identities, I am assuming whoever gave you the diagnosis likely has experienced this other self state? Being “shut down” can be another identity. Just a thought, but obviously you and a properly trained clinician would need to decide that. The amnesia for the months you don’t remember is a significant tell to look in the direction of a dissociative disorder, although certainly there could be other explanations like substance abuse or a medical condition.
Hi! I’m sorry you’ve had to go through what you did, knowing that severe childhood trauma is the cause for DID. I just want to point out that you do actually need to have alternate personality states to have the disorder. The name change was made not because alters are not part of the disorder but because DID is a disorder of dissociation not a personality disorder like borderline personality or narcissistic personality disorder.
Hello Dr. Syl. I am new to your channel. I hope you consider making a video on depersonalization derealization disorder. I have been struggling with DPDR, for at least, 7 years. The trigger may have been the long term use of Kratom. I have become so disabled that I couldn’t function at work. I am a medical biochemist. I can’t relate to the thoughts, sensations, body, identity, history and life of the person, which is illusory for everyone but constant, that is produced by my brain. I am a floating awareness that cannot connect to anything or anyone. Life is experienced as a 2D computer program. I hope you are well and I am glad I discovered your channel. Take care
I wish more were trained in recognising dissociation in patients with voices, so many pscysophrenics would be off pills and healing on the spectrum of dissociation with DID and psychotherapy focus on voices and trauma processing. DrColin Ross and Bethany Brand, Kathy Steele doing wonder s to bring it into view. Most GPs I know misdiagnose, are told you have ADHD, bipolar, scpysophernia, when it's actually DID/trauma/spectrum of dissociation with healing not years of drugs dulling voices & its hardwork with a therapist trained in it (rare to find). IDE be interested in more videos on the work being done it's not Hollywood stigmatized DID, it's attachment dissociation childhood neglect dissociation, it's spiritual and or sexual abuse, emotional and psychological and voices are not being diagnosed as in dissociation, but as psycsophrenic, 😓. Love your work 👍
7:50 Why do you describe it as the age of onset, when it's really the age of diagnosis? Or, maybe the age when things start unraveling enough to be obvious?
Hi! I have DID! What this means is the symptoms tend to get more noticeable at this age. Age of onset of the symptoms becoming more clear which then eventually leads to a diagnosis. The reason for this is because DID is meant to be hidden, so the “main personality” or the host part is not aware that they have DID for most of their life, because the disorder is good at hiding itself. And because it is so hard to spot or psychs don’t believe it exists, they often get misdiagnosed and mistreated as bipolar or with BPD (which is very similar to DID in many ways) or schizophrenia. Our host alter did not get diagnosed with DID until we were 22 years old, because the symptoms became much more obvious at that age and they were finally seeing a therapist that could recognize what was going on. Previously, throughout their life, our host alter believed that anything odd that was going on was bipolar (the “moods” were actually different parts of self or “alters”) or psychosis because they themselves didn’t know anything about DID because it’s not often talked about. At a very young age (like childhood-teen years) they were absolutely showing signs of DID but the levels of amnesia were easily hidden and pushed off as “forgetfulness.” They also had the feeling that everyone experiences these things and didn’t realize their behavior was abnormal. Blaming “mood swings” on being a hormonal teenager or phrases like “I just don’t feel like myself today” made them feel like “everyone feels this way so I’m normal.” However, as someone becomes older and this behavior persists or becomes “worse” or more noticeable and others tell them they did something unlike them but they don’t remember it, that’s when they start trying to get help for the strange things going on. A less clinical explanation that also happens around that age of onset is that these years are often when children/young adults are leaving their parent’s homes, and some of the most common causes of DID are parental abuse or disorganized attachments to caregivers. So when the young adult leaves their parents’ home, this can often cause a bit of unraveling, almost a relaxing of those dissociative barriers between parts now that they are not in an actively traumatic situation, which can also cause symptoms to increase and become noticeable enough to the patient and their clinicians to reach diagnosis. We’ve been in DID focused therapy for nearly four years now and so things have become a lot more obvious as better communication has opened up between parts and trauma processing has occurred with some of the traumatized parts of self. It’s a long road of recovery, but it is possible🥰 I hope my explanation helped!
You are correct, using the words “age on onset” should be in a child’s youngest years. I think what he should have said was typical age of diagnosis. I know most people are in the mental health system for an average of seven years before they are properly diagnosed. I think it is quite unusual for a child to receive the diagnosis primarily because usually they don’t have access to mental health resources until they are an adult, although there are clinicians who specialize in childhood DID treatment/diagnosis. I was fortunate enough to be diagnosed in my 20s, but that would not have happened had I not researched the symptoms I was having and sought out a clinician who could evaluate me for it. However, therapy for me did not cure me, but instead has merely kept me alive with mild improvement in my symptoms. Whether that has to do with the amount of abuse I experienced and the damage done, or some other factor is the question. Most likely I would say it is because most providers are not good at helping people with DID. Heck, when hospitalization is needed, it is hard to even find a hospital that believes in the diagnosis.
There's lots of channels on yt of people with DID who answer all kinds of questions. My understanding is: there is an "original" personality. But to them it is almost harmful to think "this is the real me my main personality" because they have to live with all of the personalities, and you have to consider all of them equally important otherwise you are working against yourself, and your symptoms will be worse. Some people split so early that they don't even remember who their original personality was
You could also say that only all of them together are the real personality, and the others are just parts of a whole. Which now that I think about it is kind of the definition
Under the theory of Structural Dissociation, no one has a "main" or "core" personality. We all start as a system of parts to a personality. As we grow and learn, those parts coalesce into a whole personality. For people with DID, of which I am one, the trauma interrupted that development, and instead of those parts coming together, they spread further apart. What people will talk about is "hosts", or the alters/parts that are most frequently "out." Its not really a surplus of personalities, but a lack of 1 cohesive personality.
Think of a plate as a whole, now smash that plate.... which is the original part? We all work as a system to try get through each interaction as a system.
Could you do a video on why a notable portion of professionals in psychology don't believe in DID. How the amount of cases expanded exponentially after popular movies on the subject - some of which were based on cases that turned out to be false (ex: Sybil). And how there seems to be a phenomenon where a few doctors who are especially pro the existence of DID seem to amass a surprisingly large amount of DID patients.
Those doctors see a lot of cases mainly because those of us with DID symptoms have to seek them out to see if we really do have the diagnosis. When you have the majority of doctors either not believing or incompetent in recognizing the diagnosis, it makes sense that people seek out the doctors do believe what people are experiencing to get a proper diagnosis. I had voices talking in my head to each other from when I was very young. I also had parts of me who felt very much like “not me” come out and behave in ways that I would never have done. I had my first psychiatric hospitalization my last year of college. It was there that I started realizing the thoughts and behaviors I was fluctuating from didn’t feel like me. I had always known that I had severe child abuse that included sex trafficking growing up, but I mistakenly believed it didn’t effect me that much. When hospitalized for that first time for a very lengthy period because my symptoms were bouncing all over the place, neither my psychiatrist or therapist believed in DID so they dismissed my internal experience. When I finally did get out of there, I eventually researched it and found someone who said they treated DID. And keep in mind, this was before I had access to any information about MPD/DID, so I didn’t even have a name for it, but since I was 9 I knew I had the experience of having more people living in my body but knowing it I told anyone that I would be considered crazy. So many people want to dismiss this diagnosis as made up by either the person or their therapist. However, the one thing no one can challenge is the amount of amnesia people with DID experience. If you don’t believe in DID, then you would have to believe I have been suffering from some form of dementia since I was a child, and that this dementia seems to wax and wane depending on stress and other factors. This diagnosis is real, and it is very nice that a new psychiatrist gets it. It’s sad that those of us suffering have to spend so much energy or just getting people to believe us.
I researched this question a while ago and found out it was due to the false memory syndrome foundation saying recovered trauma memories were implanted by therapists. The people prompting these theories were accused of abusing their children and needed a legal defence. They also infiltrated the British Medical Journal with information about false memories in order to propagate these views and to gain medical credibility for their legal defence. The foundation closed in 2019 so many Doctors would have been trained to believe this, therefore there is a lot of stigma in the medical community around researching trauma and DID.
Can someone with DID? Have every mental health illness, but each personality has different mental illnesses. So that each personality they switch to possesses different mental illnesses at different times. Not always having the same mental illness all the time. Can these personalities have the same name? However, their signature along with their handwriting is completely different. Can they have amnesia? If they do remember any memories that were once gone. They recall standing off of the distance watching from the side or like being in the back of a vehicle. Even in other instances, could they see themselves watching themselves from a distance? Could they be dropped off in the middle of a store or at work or anywhere for that matter not knowing how they got there. Missing hours, days, months or years of memory? A while having to use mind tricks or manipulation to figure out where they are, when they are, and why they are there? Not to reveal to anyone they have no idea how they got there. For instance, If they woke up walking in the middle of the mall with a couple of familiar people? They would say I don't understand why we had to come to the mall for this trick people into telling why they had to come to the mall. They might add why couldn't we go to Walmart? One of the familiars would be sure to say you cannot get X at Walmart. Could this person have different personalities that were gifted for certain situations, or different tasks? Could that personality be triggered into effect on those different situations, or tasks? If this was a man? Could most all of his personalities, be more aggressive, or more protective of himself. Could he be unaware and aware at the same time, that this is taking place. Could he have thought that this is just how everyone is? Could he have just seen everything say a simple TV remote. Having a power button, mode, up and down channels, up and down volume. Could he view it as he is switching modes, being full of completely different personalities with the same name. While the channels are different fragments, that are best for the task at hand. The volume being the veracity, up or down of each character. This being just a few of the differences, or characteristics of himself. Is not everyone's reality different? If no two people have the same reality, how could there even be a normal? How we see and hear, is how we perceive and understand? If our perceptions and understanding, are completely different from one person to the next? Is not everything from our eyes, ears, fingerprints, DNA different from one another. For instance, when I walk into a room. How I perceive and understand the room, is different from anyone else? If I were to read a book? I would perceive it, and understand it differently than anyone else... There was only one difference which can label two characteristics. There is good and evil. Now what is not relevant is what we consider good or evil. What I see classifies people in two distinct groups. For instance, the only time you see peoples, with one perception and one understanding. That all strive for one goal knowing or unknowingly. A true Christian strives for God's will and not their own. Anything other than that, is knowingly or unknowingly striving, for the devil's will. A psychologist or psychiatrist, is knowingly or unknowingly an Antichrist. If you want to be made well, seek God in natural remedies. After all, the Bible says the sorcerers and the merchants run the world in the last days. Look up sorcerers in your Strong's Concordants. Sorcerers - pharmakeus Which is the root word for pharmacy? Doctors psychologist, psychiatrist.... They wanted that degree so bad that they allowed themselves to be brainwashed in everything they learned. God takes the broken. Your reality has to break in order for you to turn to God. You cannot see the truth unless you break. The question is, are you a slave to the creation or to the Creator? I (myself) have broken multiple times. My will being strong. I would reset and forget everything. I can't say it's just my will being strong but more so being stubborn. I can tell you supernaturally everything wrong became right with me. And it took time. After all, life is a process. The truth is we're all broken. We were designed to lean on God. The problem is we lean on everything but God. Because we're missing God from birth. We tried to fill the void with anything under the Sun but God. Everyone believes that life is a multiple choice, because the god of this world leads you to believe. There are multiple choices. There are only two choices. Christ, and everything else. I challenge anyone and everyone to not believe just what you're told, But look into anything you're told. Everything isn't just as easy as everyone thinks. We were all given a mind to rationalize and think, to decide for ourselves. Don't let this world rationalize and think and decide for you.... You have free will. Do not be just lazy and let everyone else think rationalize and decide for you. The god of this world cannot make you think, rationalize, and decide for you. You do not need the medicines created or the vaccines created of this world. This world does not love you. It wants to destroy you. You are all so precious. I can tell you if you do the research you will see everything is a lie all the way down to the Earth chasing a fireball through space. If you want to call me a liar then you have to prove it. Therefore, do the research and prove it. In the King James version of the Bible it refers to when we are being born in Leviticus and Numbers as being born into the matrix. This is where you get the matrix. If you want to keep eating the steak that they feed you, and don't want to wake up. That is your choice. But what if when you die you do have a soul? Do you really think the Creator won't know where you are at? Do you really believe they're ghosts wandering around the earth? When you die it is heaven or hell. There's no purgatory. It does not matter what you have done wrong. God will forgive you through his son, Jesus Christ. You will be rewarded for the good you do. Any and all wrong or evil you have done will be wiped away. If you do not turn to God and accept Jesus Christ. And you go to hell. You will not be judged on any good you have done. But only the wrong and evil you have been done. Will you be judged. Ask yourself why this world hates Jesus Christ so much. Ask yourself why in March of 2022, the pope in every religion signed on for a One world religion, And in this one world religion Jesus Christ is taken out of it. Because this world hates our creator Jesus Christ. You might want to really look into what this jab is that they've been giving everybody. They want you to no longer be a creation of God. Just as in the days of Noah. I love you all. Use your minds that you were given. After all, it is your choice to go to heaven or hell.
No, they can not each have different mental illnesses by themselves. If the brain has it however, one might precent in a different way then an other, so one manifesting signs, while the next may appear normal. Yes, there can be others with the same name, and hand writing in most cases changes from alter to alter. An alter has their own thoughts and or ways with feelings and actions. They can definitely have amnesic barriers between them, which causes the forgetfulness. To the rest, that is up to each their own, and does not relate to the questions. Disclaimer: I'm no professional, and will not claim to be, will only give formulated thoughts from books, research and personal experiences from myself and friends.
pt 2: Yes, most alters have different rolls, this varies per system however. Waking up somewhere not knowing why is common in systems. Memory is mostly one of the biggest struggles in systems, and cooperation can lessen this problem, this takes time, effort, and willingness however.
"DID" is a horrible way of labelling, its like coming up with an anachronism for depression with the letters "GUILTY" or some other demeaning dehumanising word. Also, instead of calling these phenomenon "disorders", why not recognise that what has happened to a person is a natural way of coping with severely stressful situations?
Mental health struggles are only diagnosed if they are causing disordered behaviour. Like how everyone has anxieties but it will only be diagnosed as an anxiety disorder of it causes significant problems in your life. Everyone dissociates in a way, such as spacing out while driving or having different version of themselves that is 'work me' Does that make sense? I'm not having a go at you or anything, just trying to explain 😊
@@MrCynthis I understand that you "are not having a go at me". What I was stating is that the anachronym D.I.D. is not helpful, just as the word disorder is not helpful at the end of Post traumatic stress disorder. Post trauma stress and its relative "anxieties" are a natural way of the mind dealing with trauma. To label that a "disorder" is unkind and cruel to the person who has already been through trauma. People who have been through severe trauma, such as torture and war have completely different personalities, often because that part of the mind had to come into existence to protect the person. An example is that if you re walking through warzone A you have to be acceptable to the people running warzone A in order to be allowed to live. The same applies to Warzone B and other zones. Thus another personality develops so that there isn't any overlapping which might be dangerous to the person having to live in the warzone. I hope this helps you to understand the point I was trying to make.
@@emmaaustin123 it does not. I have DID from childhood sexual abuse and neglect. It was a natural way for my brain to survive at the time but now that I am an adult it is disordered due to it causing severe impediments on my life now as an adult. I also have major depressive disorder, which is a disorder that causes severe distress and suicidality. Do I wish I wasn't disordered? Yes. Is it the name 'disorder' that makes me feel like shit? No. It is a name to help me and mental health professionals distinguish what is going on so I can get the specific help I require. I don't understand how the acronym DID is the same as calling someone GUILTY.
@@MrCynthis In this country they assume you did it. I am not against you. I understand how disruptive to the mind trauma can be. I have seen people murdered in front of me and been helpless to do anything about it. What you do need to know is that you have picked up a set of unusual survival skills, some of which may help you to survive in the very unlikely event that it occurs again in the future, which it is unlikely to. I was told by a therapist that as a 5 year old I was responsible for the death of a ten year old who was raped to death whilst I was unconscious after being drugged by pederasts. Thus it is not unreasonable that I am careful about labelling. I hope that that therapist rots in hell.
I don't understand what my problem is 😔 I have None of these symptoms But I'm dealing with this I do feel like it's me who was thinking bad now it's me who's thinking good I'm sorry idk I'm just helpless
A man who loves a woman will not ignore her, EVER, period. So... If he ignores me I will step back and he will lose me. I don’t play any of these childish abusive controlling mind-games. I will only be with a man who values and appreciates me, and treats me as the Queen that I AM. Because I am a beautiful and kind and sexy and wise and magical woman: who knows my worth. Period. Whenever you are alone, remind yourself that GOD has sent everyone else away, so that there is only you and him... Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you. YOU ARE THE UNIVERSE IN ECSTATIC MOTION, BABY! Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes... For those who love with their heart and soul there is no such thing as separation. You have to keep breaking your own heart until it opens (It is only then, that GOD can truly totally completely fully enter)! Our greatest strength lies in the gentleness and tenderness of our heart. --- Rumi
With the utmost respect, if you know about mental health issues, you should know that the background and intrusive sound effects make your video unwatchable. I mean seriously, the sound effects are as loud as you voice, and make no sense. I really wanted to listen as you appear to be knowledgeable and kind. This initial impression is destroyed by your clear lack of care for people who might actually find your video useful. I could not watch till the end, and I wanted to. That is a pity, I am sure it would be worth it. I am writing this whilst the video is playing, the sound effects as such that you video sounds like a pinball machine. You need to remix this, and please don't do this again, you have short chained yourself, and me.
(Long comment) No disrepect to anyone who disagrees with me, but I'm definitly in the clan of the D.I.D. non-believers. I have yet to be convinced of an actual case. And those mentionned studies just confirm my opinion. 1% of the population? That sounds super high. We've all known hundreds if not thousands if people in our lives, so we should on average have known a few persons with D.i.D. even tens of persons with it. Yet, it's never happened to me to start talking to a friend, called thomas lets say, and him correcting me on his name, saying he's actually 'Olivia, a several years younger little girl who doesn't like adults.' Also, people living with frequent amnesia states, who don't think being who they are,not knowing where they were going, not know how to do their job etc. wouldn't go unnoticed very long. Just their close relative would spot something odd fairly quickly. I could go on and on about dubious aspects of this so called illness. Once again, sorry for my rude opinion of the subject. Love ❤ great vids dr. Syl
I've only known one person who indicated he had two distinct personalities, and they were both schizophrenic. The DID diagnosis is based in psychodynamic theory and relies heavily on the notion of repression. Elizabeth Loftus is one of my heroes because she scientifically debunked the notion of repression and she had to take a lot of flak in doing so. For years, therapists had been "uncovering" memories of abuse that have torn families apart, even though the patients/clients entered therapy with no traumatic memories. I know of one case in which someone was convicted of murder based on an "unchained memory." The expert witness in this case had a PhD in counseling psychology but was unlicensed; the court participants assumed he was licensed. I too can go on and on. Another thing, the book "Sybil" was fabricated by the psychiatrist Cornelia Wilbur.
@@mustachedmalarkey8838 Didn't you enjoy my arguments? Is this the purpose of your... interaction? What have you brought to the debate? Some sillyness about... what? Me not existing? 😂 Did you feel clever at all? Anyone who chose not to answer my comment was being more relevant than you.
@@Ink_Panther that was very interesting. Thanks for sharing. It didn't make me change my opinion, but it weights in the balance. I have questions, but I wouldn't want to make it feel like I'm questionning your DID. Feel free if you don't mind them.
I will say, I know quite a few folks with DID and most of them are not honest with medical professionals (or people in their lives in general) about their experiences because many medical professionals don't believe it exists. So there's a chance there are many more people out there with it, but they're masking and that's why we don't see it apparent as often.
This is the best video I have seen about DID from a non DID specialist, you have a few small errors tho. We suffer from dissociative amnesia which is different from amnesia. The memory is still being encoded but in a personality that is not present. When we switch to that person the memory will be available again. Parts talking to each other is not a hallucination, it is a fragmented internal monologue. The onset is actually at the time of the trauma but it remains dormant until adulthood, my personal observation is that people become aware of their trauma/parts when they reach some kind of safety or someone in their life points out that they behave differently. I also disagree that the pathogenesis is unknown as the theory of Structural Dissociation perfectly describes how and why SD forms and how BPD, PTSD and DID relate and where they fall on the SD spectrum. Lastly I would like to say to those watching with DID that final fusion does not have to happen if you choose not to. However integration of memory and access to action systems via cooperative switching and internal communication is essential to healing from trauma and generally functioning without complete chaos! Hope this helps someone 💜
thanx for the wording, I could not find a way to do it.
Thank you so much for this description! It’s perfectly aligned with what I experience.
Diagnosed since 1990 and have an entire life time of having this extremely traumatic yet brilliant condition ❤
Thank you for covering DID in an accurate way. Many psychiatrists in America choose not to believe in it, which only makes them look foolish. It’s nice to see someone going into the psychiatric field actually not skip the paragraph on DID in their textbooks. It’s refreshing. Thanks. Maybe there is a little hope for humanity on this rock.
Just to add, not every system has the goal of total integration (fusion of all identities into a single alter), once your multiplicity become functional, the necessity to further the integration process becomes quite optional in my opinion, the focus can instead be moved to help the alters coexist in community, and to help the system learn better coping mechanisms to stress rather than spliting.
I agree, a lot of my personalities integrated because they wanted too, but I have 3 left that didn't want to integrate, they coexist quite well. When I have counsel people and their personalities, I let them choose what works best for them.
Being in the mental health community made me realize quite a lot of ppl have DID and the more awareness of this diagnosis has helped so many people
Did anyone else find the sound effects that go along with the titles terribly jarring, unpleasant, and distracting? It could just be me, I'm ND and have sound sensitivities.
Very interesting video, it really helps explain how broad this diagnosis is. Trauma can really impact the brain in such diverse, profound, and lasting ways.
I don't have DID, but I think I have experienced some kind of dissociation in states of emotional dysregulation, sensory overstimulation, or extreme fatigue. I think it may have developed as a way to help avoid having public meltdowns.
Yep. Quite distracting. Lower volume would help lots!
Yes it drove me crazy I had to turn it off which was sad because it was very interesting!
Thank you so much for this excellent explanation of a highly complex and misunderstood condition.
Thank you so much for this video. I watched the movie split during a very vulnerable time in my life. I was drinking, abusing prescription medications, and smoking an unhealthy amount of marijuana. That along with rarely leaving my room and house. Split scared me so much and after watching it, I kept having intrusive thoughts that I was a terrible person and had split personality disorder. These thoughts eventually consumed me and I was terrified of my self and lost touch with reality.
Things eventually got better for me and I was able to combat those thoughts and now 2 years later I’m doing the best I have ever done in life. But I still sometimes have intrusive thoughts that I have multiple personalities, I’m not in control of my self, and that everyone around me knows I have DID except for me. Deep in my heart I know these thoughts aren’t true, but when they happen they’re scary and make my heart sink.
I suspect I may have OCD given I cannot control these thoughts and the visceral reaction they give me. Your video is the validation I need after a bout of intrusive thoughts regarding DID I had the other day. I am one person, I am in control, and I’m well aware of all my actions. Thank you, again.
Hey Dr Syl,please make a video on Intrusive thoughts .I know there are a lot of videos out there but it would be very helpful coming from you ,I have watched a lot of your videos and it has helped me in gaining awarness regarding various mental health issues .A person close to me thinks there is something seriously wrong with him for having these disturbing thoughts,I have tried to help him understand what they are and have been fairly successful,I would like to make him think that they are just various scenarios created by brain and your contribution will be very helpful .A heartfelt thank you for making these videos .Have a Great Day .
Happy New Year .
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The way you explained this was extremely helpful in understanding DID for me. I’ve never heard it described as the one state being the traumatized part hence why the person can be very responsible and logical at times while others they aren’t. Massive lightbulb moment for me. Thank you!
I was diagnosed in 2022 while in the pych ward after a unaliving incident. Iv been treated and still am for C-CHT C-PTSD. Depression. Suicidal ideation and FND. It hard to manage life and be “normal” for ppl around me. My children are traumatised by my D.I.D personality’s ( John. -protector Suzy -happy funny and Paul -child who is always scared) I find I have to hide when I am disassociating to one of them.
I wish I could get them understand, this is me. And I can not control it or help it. And I definitely did not ask for it or deserve any of this 😢
Thank you for you clear understanding information ❤
Kim nobles case has always made me want to know all i can about this disorder! The trauma she suffered over the length of time she suffered it meets the criteria! But not all children who suffered like her get it and it fascinates me so much! I wish i my adhd would allow me to focus on studied reading so that i could look at arguments both for and against the diagnostic criteria!,
I wonder if i might ask, you know children that develop it from say “child sex trafficking” compared to a child that seemingly developed similar traits when they’ve only witnessed one traumatic event still should be classed as DID as a spectrum ?
Also are their any studies on states of catatonic patients once they’re made aware of trauma that the alters are kept from ?
Attachment trauma, not having someone to process the trauma with makes us make a system to cope.
So kids could go through horrible trauma but if they have a strong attachment figure they can process it with they may not develop DID.
With kids who seemed to only have a single trauma, its assumed that that child probably has a previous trauma they cant remember, I have DID friends who can't remember any of their trauma (which is what our systems have been designed to keep us safe from)
As someone diagnosed with did, I would like you to know not all of us have actual other personalities. For me I (my true self) shut down when things get rough. I go into a automatic mode. I go through life and will talk to my family but I'm rather emotionless. I have periods up to months that I don't remember. Along with the did I'm also bipolar with suicidal tendencies. Thankfully I have not had suicidal thoughts for years. Also ptsd. Thank you for bringing awareness to this disorder.
That is so interesting thank you. I thought having multiple personalities was needed for diagnosis
Now I understand why the name was changed, thank you for sharing
Yes, this is definitely an important point. I also am diagnosed with DID but have different personalities and my understanding is the way I experience the condition is less common. As in I have many distinctly different personalities, most have their own names and autonomy. I'm considered to be poly fragmented as we have different systems. So rather than having a "core" we have a default group of alters and that default set can change.
I would add that sometimes people are not aware of having other identities who become present when you are losing time and can’t remember. This is very common. Since the diagnosis requires two or more distinct identities, I am assuming whoever gave you the diagnosis likely has experienced this other self state? Being “shut down” can be another identity. Just a thought, but obviously you and a properly trained clinician would need to decide that. The amnesia for the months you don’t remember is a significant tell to look in the direction of a dissociative disorder, although certainly there could be other explanations like substance abuse or a medical condition.
Hi! I’m sorry you’ve had to go through what you did, knowing that severe childhood trauma is the cause for DID. I just want to point out that you do actually need to have alternate personality states to have the disorder. The name change was made not because alters are not part of the disorder but because DID is a disorder of dissociation not a personality disorder like borderline personality or narcissistic personality disorder.
Hello Dr. Syl. I am new to your channel. I hope you consider making a video on depersonalization derealization disorder. I have been struggling with DPDR, for at least, 7 years. The trigger may have been the long term use of Kratom. I have become so disabled that I couldn’t function at work. I am a medical biochemist. I can’t relate to the thoughts, sensations, body, identity, history and life of the person, which is illusory for everyone but constant, that is produced by my brain. I am a floating awareness that cannot connect to anything or anyone. Life is experienced as a 2D computer program. I hope you are well and I am glad I discovered your channel. Take care
I wish more were trained in recognising dissociation in patients with voices, so many pscysophrenics would be off pills and healing on the spectrum of dissociation with DID and psychotherapy focus on voices and trauma processing. DrColin Ross and Bethany Brand, Kathy Steele doing wonder s to bring it into view. Most GPs I know misdiagnose, are told you have ADHD, bipolar, scpysophernia, when it's actually DID/trauma/spectrum of dissociation with healing not years of drugs dulling voices & its hardwork with a therapist trained in it (rare to find). IDE be interested in more videos on the work being done it's not Hollywood stigmatized DID, it's attachment dissociation childhood neglect dissociation, it's spiritual and or sexual abuse, emotional and psychological and voices are not being diagnosed as in dissociation, but as psycsophrenic, 😓. Love your work 👍
Wow man! You nailed it.
7:50 Why do you describe it as the age of onset, when it's really the age of diagnosis? Or, maybe the age when things start unraveling enough to be obvious?
Hi! I have DID! What this means is the symptoms tend to get more noticeable at this age. Age of onset of the symptoms becoming more clear which then eventually leads to a diagnosis. The reason for this is because DID is meant to be hidden, so the “main personality” or the host part is not aware that they have DID for most of their life, because the disorder is good at hiding itself. And because it is so hard to spot or psychs don’t believe it exists, they often get misdiagnosed and mistreated as bipolar or with BPD (which is very similar to DID in many ways) or schizophrenia. Our host alter did not get diagnosed with DID until we were 22 years old, because the symptoms became much more obvious at that age and they were finally seeing a therapist that could recognize what was going on. Previously, throughout their life, our host alter believed that anything odd that was going on was bipolar (the “moods” were actually different parts of self or “alters”) or psychosis because they themselves didn’t know anything about DID because it’s not often talked about. At a very young age (like childhood-teen years) they were absolutely showing signs of DID but the levels of amnesia were easily hidden and pushed off as “forgetfulness.” They also had the feeling that everyone experiences these things and didn’t realize their behavior was abnormal. Blaming “mood swings” on being a hormonal teenager or phrases like “I just don’t feel like myself today” made them feel like “everyone feels this way so I’m normal.” However, as someone becomes older and this behavior persists or becomes “worse” or more noticeable and others tell them they did something unlike them but they don’t remember it, that’s when they start trying to get help for the strange things going on.
A less clinical explanation that also happens around that age of onset is that these years are often when children/young adults are leaving their parent’s homes, and some of the most common causes of DID are parental abuse or disorganized attachments to caregivers. So when the young adult leaves their parents’ home, this can often cause a bit of unraveling, almost a relaxing of those dissociative barriers between parts now that they are not in an actively traumatic situation, which can also cause symptoms to increase and become noticeable enough to the patient and their clinicians to reach diagnosis.
We’ve been in DID focused therapy for nearly four years now and so things have become a lot more obvious as better communication has opened up between parts and trauma processing has occurred with some of the traumatized parts of self. It’s a long road of recovery, but it is possible🥰 I hope my explanation helped!
You are correct, using the words “age on onset” should be in a child’s youngest years. I think what he should have said was typical age of diagnosis. I know most people are in the mental health system for an average of seven years before they are properly diagnosed. I think it is quite unusual for a child to receive the diagnosis primarily because usually they don’t have access to mental health resources until they are an adult, although there are clinicians who specialize in childhood DID treatment/diagnosis.
I was fortunate enough to be diagnosed in my 20s, but that would not have happened had I not researched the symptoms I was having and sought out a clinician who could evaluate me for it. However, therapy for me did not cure me, but instead has merely kept me alive with mild improvement in my symptoms. Whether that has to do with the amount of abuse I experienced and the damage done, or some other factor is the question. Most likely I would say it is because most providers are not good at helping people with DID. Heck, when hospitalization is needed, it is hard to even find a hospital that believes in the diagnosis.
Can anyone see the video done about plurals? I’ve looked and I just can’t seem to find it. Thank you.
I have it. I would never go on UA-cam to talk about it. Most of what you see on media is trash.
My alter personality is a mean old lady who wants to punish me and verbally abuse me constantly.
Audial and visual hallucinations. Not just disembodied voices.
😊 thanks
I'm confused so do people with this actully have a main person personality like them "them" or is it just all different personalities
There's lots of channels on yt of people with DID who answer all kinds of questions. My understanding is: there is an "original" personality. But to them it is almost harmful to think "this is the real me my main personality" because they have to live with all of the personalities, and you have to consider all of them equally important otherwise you are working against yourself, and your symptoms will be worse. Some people split so early that they don't even remember who their original personality was
You could also say that only all of them together are the real personality, and the others are just parts of a whole. Which now that I think about it is kind of the definition
Under the theory of Structural Dissociation, no one has a "main" or "core" personality. We all start as a system of parts to a personality. As we grow and learn, those parts coalesce into a whole personality. For people with DID, of which I am one, the trauma interrupted that development, and instead of those parts coming together, they spread further apart. What people will talk about is "hosts", or the alters/parts that are most frequently "out."
Its not really a surplus of personalities, but a lack of 1 cohesive personality.
Think of a plate as a whole, now smash that plate.... which is the original part? We all work as a system to try get through each interaction as a system.
Could you do a video on why a notable portion of professionals in psychology don't believe in DID. How the amount of cases expanded exponentially after popular movies on the subject - some of which were based on cases that turned out to be false (ex: Sybil). And how there seems to be a phenomenon where a few doctors who are especially pro the existence of DID seem to amass a surprisingly large amount of DID patients.
Those doctors see a lot of cases mainly because those of us with DID symptoms have to seek them out to see if we really do have the diagnosis. When you have the majority of doctors either not believing or incompetent in recognizing the diagnosis, it makes sense that people seek out the doctors do believe what people are experiencing to get a proper diagnosis.
I had voices talking in my head to each other from when I was very young. I also had parts of me who felt very much like “not me” come out and behave in ways that I would never have done. I had my first psychiatric hospitalization my last year of college. It was there that I started realizing the thoughts and behaviors I was fluctuating from didn’t feel like me. I had always known that I had severe child abuse that included sex trafficking growing up, but I mistakenly believed it didn’t effect me that much. When hospitalized for that first time for a very lengthy period because my symptoms were bouncing all over the place, neither my psychiatrist or therapist believed in DID so they dismissed my internal experience. When I finally did get out of there, I eventually researched it and found someone who said they treated DID. And keep in mind, this was before I had access to any information about MPD/DID, so I didn’t even have a name for it, but since I was 9 I knew I had the experience of having more people living in my body but knowing it I told anyone that I would be considered crazy. So many people want to dismiss this diagnosis as made up by either the person or their therapist. However, the one thing no one can challenge is the amount of amnesia people with DID experience. If you don’t believe in DID, then you would have to believe I have been suffering from some form of dementia since I was a child, and that this dementia seems to wax and wane depending on stress and other factors.
This diagnosis is real, and it is very nice that a new psychiatrist gets it. It’s sad that those of us suffering have to spend so much energy or just getting people to believe us.
I researched this question a while ago and found out it was due to the false memory syndrome foundation saying recovered trauma memories were implanted by therapists. The people prompting these theories were accused of abusing their children and needed a legal defence. They also infiltrated the British Medical Journal with information about false memories in order to propagate these views and to gain medical credibility for their legal defence. The foundation closed in 2019 so many Doctors would have been trained to believe this, therefore there is a lot of stigma in the medical community around researching trauma and DID.
@KKKK-ld9wb those voices you think you are hearing is nothing more than your internal dialog
Your thoughts on Esketamine
😅 wow I think they should meet my protector RASH ..
Can someone with DID? Have every mental health illness, but each personality has different mental illnesses. So that each personality they switch to possesses different mental illnesses at different times. Not always having the same mental illness all the time. Can these personalities have the same name? However, their signature along with their handwriting is completely different. Can they have amnesia? If they do remember any memories that were once gone. They recall standing off of the distance watching from the side or like being in the back of a vehicle. Even in other instances, could they see themselves watching themselves from a distance? Could they be dropped off in the middle of a store or at work or anywhere for that matter not knowing how they got there. Missing hours, days, months or years of memory? A while having to use mind tricks or manipulation to figure out where they are, when they are, and why they are there? Not to reveal to anyone they have no idea how they got there. For instance, If they woke up walking in the middle of the mall with a couple of familiar people? They would say I don't understand why we had to come to the mall for this trick people into telling why they had to come to the mall. They might add why couldn't we go to Walmart? One of the familiars would be sure to say you cannot get X at Walmart. Could this person have different personalities that were gifted for certain situations, or different tasks? Could that personality be triggered into effect on those different situations, or tasks? If this was a man? Could most all of his personalities, be more aggressive, or more protective of himself. Could he be unaware and aware at the same time, that this is taking place. Could he have thought that this is just how everyone is? Could he have just seen everything say a simple TV remote. Having a power button, mode, up and down channels, up and down volume. Could he view it as he is switching modes, being full of completely different personalities with the same name. While the channels are different fragments, that are best for the task at hand. The volume being the veracity, up or down of each character. This being just a few of the differences, or characteristics of himself. Is not everyone's reality different? If no two people have the same reality, how could there even be a normal? How we see and hear, is how we perceive and understand? If our perceptions and understanding, are completely different from one person to the next? Is not everything from our eyes, ears, fingerprints, DNA different from one another. For instance, when I walk into a room. How I perceive and understand the room, is different from anyone else? If I were to read a book? I would perceive it, and understand it differently than anyone else... There was only one difference which can label two characteristics. There is good and evil. Now what is not relevant is what we consider good or evil. What I see classifies people in two distinct groups. For instance, the only time you see peoples, with one perception and one understanding. That all strive for one goal knowing or unknowingly. A true Christian strives for God's will and not their own. Anything other than that, is knowingly or unknowingly striving, for the devil's will. A psychologist or psychiatrist, is knowingly or unknowingly an Antichrist. If you want to be made well, seek God in natural remedies. After all, the Bible says the sorcerers and the merchants run the world in the last days. Look up sorcerers in your Strong's Concordants. Sorcerers - pharmakeus
Which is the root word for pharmacy? Doctors psychologist, psychiatrist.... They wanted that degree so bad that they allowed themselves to be brainwashed in everything they learned. God takes the broken. Your reality has to break in order for you to turn to God. You cannot see the truth unless you break. The question is, are you a slave to the creation or to the Creator? I (myself) have broken multiple times. My will being strong. I would reset and forget everything. I can't say it's just my will being strong but more so being stubborn. I can tell you supernaturally everything wrong became right with me. And it took time. After all, life is a process. The truth is we're all broken. We were designed to lean on God. The problem is we lean on everything but God. Because we're missing God from birth. We tried to fill the void with anything under the Sun but God. Everyone believes that life is a multiple choice, because the god of this world leads you to believe. There are multiple choices. There are only two choices. Christ, and everything else. I challenge anyone and everyone to not believe just what you're told, But look into anything you're told. Everything isn't just as easy as everyone thinks. We were all given a mind to rationalize and think, to decide for ourselves. Don't let this world rationalize and think and decide for you.... You have free will. Do not be just lazy and let everyone else think rationalize and decide for you. The god of this world cannot make you think, rationalize, and decide for you. You do not need the medicines created or the vaccines created of this world. This world does not love you. It wants to destroy you. You are all so precious. I can tell you if you do the research you will see everything is a lie all the way down to the Earth chasing a fireball through space. If you want to call me a liar then you have to prove it. Therefore, do the research and prove it. In the King James version of the Bible it refers to when we are being born in Leviticus and Numbers as being born into the matrix. This is where you get the matrix. If you want to keep eating the steak that they feed you, and don't want to wake up. That is your choice. But what if when you die you do have a soul? Do you really think the Creator won't know where you are at? Do you really believe they're ghosts wandering around the earth? When you die it is heaven or hell. There's no purgatory. It does not matter what you have done wrong. God will forgive you through his son, Jesus Christ. You will be rewarded for the good you do. Any and all wrong or evil you have done will be wiped away. If you do not turn to God and accept Jesus Christ. And you go to hell. You will not be judged on any good you have done. But only the wrong and evil you have been done. Will you be judged. Ask yourself why this world hates Jesus Christ so much. Ask yourself why in March of 2022, the pope in every religion signed on for a One world religion, And in this one world religion Jesus Christ is taken out of it. Because this world hates our creator Jesus Christ. You might want to really look into what this jab is that they've been giving everybody. They want you to no longer be a creation of God. Just as in the days of Noah. I love you all. Use your minds that you were given. After all, it is your choice to go to heaven or hell.
No, they can not each have different mental illnesses by themselves. If the brain has it however, one might precent in a different way then an other, so one manifesting signs, while the next may appear normal.
Yes, there can be others with the same name, and hand writing in most cases changes from alter to alter.
An alter has their own thoughts and or ways with feelings and actions.
They can definitely have amnesic barriers between them, which causes the forgetfulness.
To the rest, that is up to each their own, and does not relate to the questions.
Disclaimer: I'm no professional, and will not claim to be, will only give formulated thoughts from books, research and personal experiences from myself and friends.
pt 2: Yes, most alters have different rolls, this varies per system however. Waking up somewhere not knowing why is common in systems.
Memory is mostly one of the biggest struggles in systems, and cooperation can lessen this problem, this takes time, effort, and willingness however.
I have D.I.D. because of three abusive Grade school teachers. Physical and emotional abuse. Kindergarten, Third and Fourth Grade.
I am so sorry that happened to you. you did not deserve that. 😢
"DID" is a horrible way of labelling, its like coming up with an anachronism for depression with the letters "GUILTY" or some other demeaning dehumanising word. Also, instead of calling these phenomenon "disorders", why not recognise that what has happened to a person is a natural way of coping with severely stressful situations?
Mental health struggles are only diagnosed if they are causing disordered behaviour. Like how everyone has anxieties but it will only be diagnosed as an anxiety disorder of it causes significant problems in your life. Everyone dissociates in a way, such as spacing out while driving or having different version of themselves that is 'work me'
Does that make sense? I'm not having a go at you or anything, just trying to explain 😊
@@MrCynthis I understand that you "are not having a go at me". What I was stating is that the anachronym D.I.D. is not helpful, just as the word disorder is not helpful at the end of Post traumatic stress disorder. Post trauma stress and its relative "anxieties" are a natural way of the mind dealing with trauma. To label that a "disorder" is unkind and cruel to the person who has already been through trauma.
People who have been through severe trauma, such as torture and war have completely different personalities, often because that part of the mind had to come into existence to protect the person.
An example is that if you re walking through warzone A you have to be acceptable to the people running warzone A in order to be allowed to live. The same applies to Warzone B and other zones. Thus another personality develops so that there isn't any overlapping which might be dangerous to the person having to live in the warzone. I hope this helps you to understand the point I was trying to make.
@@emmaaustin123 it does not. I have DID from childhood sexual abuse and neglect. It was a natural way for my brain to survive at the time but now that I am an adult it is disordered due to it causing severe impediments on my life now as an adult. I also have major depressive disorder, which is a disorder that causes severe distress and suicidality. Do I wish I wasn't disordered? Yes. Is it the name 'disorder' that makes me feel like shit? No. It is a name to help me and mental health professionals distinguish what is going on so I can get the specific help I require.
I don't understand how the acronym DID is the same as calling someone GUILTY.
@@MrCynthis In this country they assume you did it. I am not against you. I understand how disruptive to the mind trauma can be. I have seen people murdered in front of me and been helpless to do anything about it.
What you do need to know is that you have picked up a set of unusual survival skills, some of which may help you to survive in the very unlikely event that it occurs again in the future, which it is unlikely to.
I was told by a therapist that as a 5 year old I was responsible for the death of a ten year old who was raped to death whilst I was unconscious after being drugged by pederasts.
Thus it is not unreasonable that I am careful about labelling. I hope that that therapist rots in hell.
@@emmaaustin123in which country? Australia?
I don't understand what my problem is 😔
I have None of these symptoms
But I'm dealing with this
I do feel like it's me who was thinking bad now it's me who's thinking good
I'm sorry idk I'm just helpless
A man who loves a woman will not ignore her, EVER, period.
So...
If he ignores me
I will step back
and he will lose me.
I don’t play any of these childish abusive controlling mind-games.
I will only be with a man who values and appreciates me,
and treats me as the Queen that I AM.
Because I am a beautiful and kind and sexy and wise and magical woman:
who knows my worth.
Period.
Whenever you are alone, remind yourself
that GOD has sent everyone else away,
so that there is only you
and him...
Do not feel lonely,
the entire universe is inside you.
YOU ARE THE UNIVERSE IN ECSTATIC MOTION, BABY!
Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes...
For those who love with their heart and soul
there is no such thing as separation.
You have to keep breaking your own heart until it opens
(It is only then, that GOD can truly totally completely fully enter)!
Our greatest strength lies in the gentleness and tenderness of our heart.
--- Rumi
Great info but you neednto learn about satanic ritual abuse, MK Ultra, demonization, etc.
Have you heard of the UA-cam channel Dissociadid? I've been following her for years. She is educating and a great person.
With the utmost respect, if you know about mental health issues, you should know that the background and intrusive sound effects make your video unwatchable. I mean seriously, the sound effects are as loud as you voice, and make no sense. I really wanted to listen as you appear to be knowledgeable and kind. This initial impression is destroyed by your clear lack of care for people who might actually find your video useful. I could not watch till the end, and I wanted to. That is a pity, I am sure it would be worth it. I am writing this whilst the video is playing, the sound effects as such that you video sounds like a pinball machine. You need to remix this, and please don't do this again, you have short chained yourself, and me.
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No disrepect to anyone who disagrees with me, but I'm definitly in the clan of the D.I.D. non-believers. I have yet to be convinced of an actual case. And those mentionned studies just confirm my opinion.
1% of the population? That sounds super high. We've all known hundreds if not thousands if people in our lives, so we should on average have known a few persons with D.i.D. even tens of persons with it.
Yet, it's never happened to me to start talking to a friend, called thomas lets say, and him correcting me on his name, saying he's actually 'Olivia, a several years younger little girl who doesn't like adults.' Also, people living with frequent amnesia states, who don't think being who they are,not knowing where they were going, not know how to do their job etc. wouldn't go unnoticed very long. Just their close relative would spot something odd fairly quickly.
I could go on and on about dubious aspects of this so called illness. Once again, sorry for my rude opinion of the subject. Love ❤ great vids dr. Syl
I've only known one person who indicated he had two distinct personalities, and they were both schizophrenic. The DID diagnosis is based in psychodynamic theory and relies heavily on the notion of repression. Elizabeth Loftus is one of my heroes because she scientifically debunked the notion of repression and she had to take a lot of flak in doing so. For years, therapists had been "uncovering" memories of abuse that have torn families apart, even though the patients/clients entered therapy with no traumatic memories. I know of one case in which someone was convicted of murder based on an "unchained memory." The expert witness in this case had a PhD in counseling psychology but was unlicensed; the court participants assumed he was licensed. I too can go on and on. Another thing, the book "Sybil" was fabricated by the psychiatrist Cornelia Wilbur.
That's okay, we don't believe in you either :P
@@mustachedmalarkey8838 Didn't you enjoy my arguments? Is this the purpose of your... interaction?
What have you brought to the debate? Some sillyness about... what? Me not existing? 😂 Did you feel clever at all?
Anyone who chose not to answer my comment was being more relevant than you.
@@Ink_Panther that was very interesting. Thanks for sharing.
It didn't make me change my opinion, but it weights in the balance.
I have questions, but I wouldn't want to make it feel like I'm questionning your DID. Feel free if you don't mind them.
I will say, I know quite a few folks with DID and most of them are not honest with medical professionals (or people in their lives in general) about their experiences because many medical professionals don't believe it exists. So there's a chance there are many more people out there with it, but they're masking and that's why we don't see it apparent as often.