What Is D.I.D.? | Defining Dissociative Identity Disorder
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- Happy New Years, Goblins!
This year, we’re starting fresh with an intro-to-DID video. There are a lot of new people here, and lots of people just finding out about Dissociative Identity Disorder, so here is a video explaining the basics. This is not a complete video on everything, so don’t worry if we don’t touch on all the topics- we are always open to video topic suggestions 😎
TRIGGER WARNINGS:
-mentions of types of abuse that cause DID (words are uncensored in video)
-mentions of su*cide/SH
-Fusion/integration
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"This disorder is not just clean-cut switches from one distinct identity to the next." Thanks for saying this so succintly. I often have no clue who I am, but I haven't seen that phenomenon talked about a lot, so it used to really freak me out
What shocks me is PTSD was treated the same as DID until veterans got PTSD/C-PTSD. Then more research and studying was done and it went from being called Shellshock to PTSD. It used to be thought that those with PTSD were just "in shock" because of the events they experienced and that it would be a short-term effect. Hence why it was called Shellshock. Feel free to fact-check this because I'm just saying this from memory of the research I've done on PTSD. - Creedance
Thank you so much for including P-DID. We're pretty sure that's where we fit in. Full on DID or any of the OSDDs never really seemed to fully explain our symptoms.
I've been searching for good videos to show others to explain what DID is, glad to have this as another resource in our arsenal
Thank you so much for posting! This is so helpful! Hearing "This disorder is not clean-cut switches" was sooo relieving. Mine definitely aren't but I didn't realize that was normal for DID until you said this. We're new to our systemhood. Some of us found out 3 weeks ago, some of us found out over a year ago.
It was so validating to hear you say "you switch how you switch".
We have a chronic illness called Narcolepsy. A symptom of that is cataplexy. We experience cataplexy during stressful switches, which looks like the body faints. It's like when we get triggered, the front is abandoned so there's no one there for a second. Some people say it looks like a "drop-seizure" or a fainting goat lol.
It was insightful to hear how some alters handle chronic illness better than others. My therapist recently pointed out to me that one part doesn't have the same Narcolepsy symptoms as others. I hope to learn more about this alter.
Thank you again 💜
We're about to come out to the body's family later in the year, and this is one of the videos we'll show them. Thank you for this. - Xhaxhollari, Gatekeeper, he/it.
Hope all goes well xxx
How dare you call someone an ‘it’ - offensive!
@@Maxmaxmax63 Those... Are... Xhaxhollari's pronouns? -Sparrow, he/him.
@@Maxmaxmax63 Some people like to use "it" pronouns buddy, chill
@@c.l.zeitstuck167 tell them to cut it out then! It is offensive for non binary and trans identities!
This was a great, comprehensive intro to DID. Thank you for doing this. This would be very helpful for anyone just learning about DID in a clear, easy to understand way. Looking forward to your next video.
Wonderful video. May I use this to show family, to explain this disorder better than I can?
i feel really bad hearing what you went through even though i dont exactly know in detail, i wish you well and i love seeing your videos and im extremely interested in your alters and yourself , please keep posting videos, thankyou
You did such an awesome job at explaining DID and all the other bits that come along with it. I've always been confused with the term integration and fusion, so thank you for defining the terms clearly! Glad to see you back also.
Watching your videos helps so much with coming to terms with this inner world and knowing I’m not going mad. Can’t thank you enough for sharing your experiences and life with us all. Both your system and your partners are very appreciated and valued so thank you for sharing even though I know it can’t be easy, not in the slightest x
Oml we didn’t think that our DID really affected our daily functioning and thus we didn’t get the diagnosis, but now we’re realizing that we don’t know how to function. At. All. We didn’t graduate because other alters wanted to do other things instead of school work and now we’re also at risk of not graduating at all if we don’t get down to business. The problem is though is that we split at the most minor of inconveniences and thus have probably around 500 alters. We don’t have hope at all that we will integrate together but we’d like to partial integrate if we can.
Thank you for your caution in talking about this disorder! I have 3 or so friends and a partner who have did and so I want to learn more about it and how to help them. I really appreciate the way explain it and I hope to watch more of your content
Loved the part where you talk about switches and compare it to people telling someone they yawn wrong. Had a good laugh at that.
Ours vary from part to part.
For the more similar parts (our host and co-host have very similar personalities, with few but distinct differences), it can happen in the blink of an eye, however our trauma holder always needs minutes if not an hour to fully get to the front and take control (a state in which the two current fronters are confused, disoriented and quite frankly very vulnerable).
So it looks different for everyone. Everyone yawns differently lol
- Lux (social protector)
great video, guys! very informative!! :) -mina
We can't wait for your next upload 💙
Hey, I’m wondering if you ever had years where life felt normal prior to diagnosis. Does life feel more difficult before or after diagnosis (and why?) thank you for sharing your story!
This is a very educating video! Thank you!🙏❤️ How can I start to know how many we are? ( got my diagnosis few months ago and it was a real suprise) what I feel right know is that im fronting al the time with parts of me who are younger and with different feelings.. they are al me but in different situations or trauman!? And they do their own thing for sure 😁.
I am looking forward to seeing the impact of P-DID in the new ICD, but I'm really cautious about the conversation around "is it DID or OSDD or P-DID?" I think it's more that, in the absence of alters with the distinction required for a DSM-V DID diagnosis, the experience will be different than that of those with more-clearly-noticeable alters. Same idea as for folks with a lack of amnesia but a presence of alters. The experiences and presentation will be different because of the lack of one criterion or another, and its important that folks know there's many ways that dissociative disorders can present. I worry for those who may focus on "OSDD systems present like this and DID systems present like that," and get caught up feeling like the degree of their amnesia or distinctions aren't "right" or "enough," and I worry about this happening both on client side and professional side. It's really like using measuring tools in different systems of measurement, but when it's your whole self being measured, the difference in units hits different.
i always get so excited when i get an upload notif from you guys 🤍
I like that you included the full definition of DID from the DSM
I haven't seen your videos in a while but I LOVE The new intro 💕
Aether system I was wondering if your Alters would do new meet my alters.. and possibly the Alters that have done in the past could react to their own past segment? It would be cool to meet new Alters and watch Alters react to themselves.
My brother wasdiagnosed as having DID. Over the last few years I have wondered if I have something simular. Not DID, maybe one of the OSDDs? I have talked to a therapist about it, and she was confused about how i disc rived it. It's like changing of a suite. not really an anvesa barrier, but also not like wearing the sam cloths.
I love how scientific, and fact based this explanation is!! We've always wanted an explanation presented like this! Thank you so much.
(Ps: I need those stickers lol)
I love the new intro and the art on the wall in the background! It's amazing. Thank you so much for putting yourselves out there and sharing so much with us the viewers so we can learn about and understand DID. With the statistics, its highly improbable that I haven't met - or won't meet in the future - someone who has DID. And I want to make everyone around me feel safe and accepted. For so much of my childhood, to this day really, I didn't.
Here's me watching the video and editing my comment before I'm even done, as usual. I didn't realize DID was a step above C-ptsd. I talked to a therapist once and told her my symptoms and she just verbally diagnosed me with ptsd. Idk how it works lol and tbh I didn't stay with her for very long but I've always felt C-ptsd describes it better but IIRC that's not on the DSM.
We didn't even know DID was a thing tbh until Amelia came forward and wrote a note for the at-the-time host B. That's when we started researching our symptoms. it was three - four years ago now (We were 18 then so by no means a kid looking for "clout"). We would rather work and live on our own than post tons of video and get popular. Although we do like making the videos we do because it helps us keep track of alters and information we would probably otherwise forget. - Rage
Thanks for explaining in that order🙌🏼🙌🏼😊
And yes you really need to get into the ICD-11 section on complex PTSD (!finally!) especially the part about *Dissociative-Neurological Symptom Disorders* (6B60.0-6B60.9) you might get happy like we did after seeing them experiences all beeing taken seriously in there🤩🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🥳🥳🥳
I'm sooo glad this channel exists :D I recently discovered it and pretty much binged it lol. I've watched many channels that revolve around DID but especially love this one cuz it's a bit more meme-y? (although I know it's a serious issue!). I wish the best for u all and your partner system! take care of yourselves, stay hydrated, get enough sleep :) if you've been procrastinating smth, first of all be easy on yourself! then u can try making a list, put on some lofi or music if it helps & slowly start working on your tasks. just random tips lol, because I feel like everyone does it and it helps to be reminded that we can do whatever it is we need to do. lots of love from India!
We would beg to talk to your system or acrylics system. Please. So much to say
Okay maybe an unpopular comment: I love you and your videos, but the music drives me nuts
We have really been struggling with communication between alters. Also struggling with handling our persecutors. Could you give us some tips or make a video on these topics?
We have quite a few roles/jobs that aren't in the typical lists of alter jobs, but quite a few seem to be pretty common. These are the titles we use at the moment, somewhat loosely.
Gatekeeper - alters who man the gates
Overseer - alters who report back to the gatekeepers and other "higher ups"
File keeper/Assessor - file keepers alters who deal with trauma memories, making sure they wrong alters don't get memories they're not ready for and assessors are basically those who determine the when, what and who of our trauma memories... they're technically are "gatekeepers" as well, but we choose to differentiate the three.
Judge - self-explanatory
Architect - can manipulate the inner world, whether it's small like building houses or destroying an entire island
World Guards - "gatekeepers" who determine which alters are allowed in certain parts of our inner world.
Bodyguard - this is what we call our "physical protectors", those who front to take care of threats
Pain Guards - alters who deal with physical pain better than others
Internal Guardian - alter-on-alter conflict managers
Comforter - alters who comfort other alters or the people around us
Peacekeeper - keeps the peace among other alters and/or with other people, sometimes not always in a comforting way like our "comforters". All comforters are peacekeepers, but not all peace keepers are comforters.
Therapist - a level up from a comforter, we do have a few alters who work as an internal therapist, helping talk through things with other alters who are struggling
Sexual Protector - self-explanatory
Spicy Protector - what we call our persecutors, thanks to a good friend
Afterlife Guardian - our alters experience "death cycles", which is a form of partial or sometimes full dormancy. Afterlife guardians take care of those alters during the process.
Babysitter - well, not now because we no longer have littles, but when we did...
Anyway! The reason I broke that down was to say this... like you said, there are a lot of jobs that not every system has. However, quite a few of these listed above seem to be pretty common, whether the system decides to differentiate with these or similar titles or just go with the default. I feel like talking about "custom jobs" more really helps systems to accept the fact that not every system is the same. 🙂
Which leads me to the "death cycles"... the idea that alters "can't die". That was something we struggled with a lot. There was a HUGE controversy over it, and we we fake-called quite a few times because we experience death. But our alters never really disappear. At the time though, we really though they were! BUT even if an alter does "die" and disappear, we believe there's a thing we call system fusion where the alter kinda... fuses into the entire system. Kinda like everyone gets a little piece of them? I'm not even sure. We had thought we may have experienced this a few times, but we later learned we hadn't.
And that's another thing! The CONFUSION that can happen with DID!!! It's so complicated and complex!
Anyway... moving on... the whole ANP vs EP thing doesn't work for us anymore given that we've fused so much. Nearly all of us hold trauma now, but many still function like ANPs. That's a subject definitely worth going into some day, IMO. :) The idea of ANP vs EP never really quite clicked with our system, possibly due to how large we are. We too have split over 1000 times. But we're down to just a little over 100! 😲
Moving on to your discussion about co-con. That's another thing that we changed to suit our system. We use the term "co-consciousness" to describe if an alter is near and can sometimes influence who's fronting, but "co-fronting" is what we call when two alters are fully front at the same time. But that doesn't mean it's always 50/50. Sometimes it's more like they're sitting on each other's lap. One is controlling the steering wheel, while another is pushing the pedals. Sometimes one is doing both while the other is just sitting there. Sometimes it's like someone's driving, another's on their lap, two more are in the passenger seat grabbing the wheel now and then and 6 are piled up in the back seat. 🤣 Daily struggle, tbh... but we're trying to get a grip on it. Sure, it's funny to think about. But it can get very frustrating. We tend to joke a lot about things like that. We have a saying... if you don't laugh, you'll cry. We choose to laugh about most of it to keep our sanity.
We haven't been watching very many DID videos lately, but we really enjoyed seeing you again. :) This video was very well made. You were to the point but thorough. Keep up the good work! Hope married life is all you wished it to be and more. :D
It has taken us 8 years in therapy to figure out we have a dissociative disorder. We were misdiagnosed as schizoaffective and as having just psychosis. We have psychosis, PTSD, bipolar disorder, and seasonal affective disorder. All along with a dissociative disorder that presents similar to DID and OSDD.
im so glad that you made this, i had to find a good way to explain to my roommate about what DID is, and I'm really not a good explainer so i thought about your channel! thank you so much! - vanille
This is very enlightening and very straightforward with its information.
I really appreciate your transparency and can really tell you mean every word you say and wanna clearly convey your own experiences and emotions as you properly explain this disorder.
By the way, your art is very amazing and I love the creativity put into it.
My only questions are,
Is it possible to start dissociating at an older age or more specifically noticing dissociations, especially after better researching DID to know what to look out for.
And can different people experience this disorder differently such as being co conscious for an extensive period of time without knowledge? Or is that not possible and is rather one of the different ways alters can collaborate and exist at once such as fusion?
(Apologies if I’m misunderstanding any points or misinterpreting anything)
yall are incredible thank you for sharing 💕
20:50 How it's started vs. How it's going meme, in video form
I have not seen the accusations of you being a faker, but it isn't too surprising, considering literally everyone gets that accusation, and people just can't stop being awful to each other online :|
hey, we started watching you guys about a year ago when we started realizing "oh shit, we have DID!" since then, we're somewhere between medically recognized and diagnosed, and in treatment for it. i just want to say thank you and acrylic for helping us figure out so much abt ourselves. w/o you we wouldnt have gotten this far in terms if realizing who we are.
as a fellow ramcoa system, its good seeing another one speak about their experience. we're still learning abt the ramcoa and programming, and ik you mentioned planning a vid abt that and we look foreward to seeing that in the future to help teach us more abt our sys, as well as educate others.
thank u for all u do. wishing u the best homie
I'm sorry but did told of the tung better instead of mpd --------> blake
I love your videos. I have DID. Watching you two helps me. I am intergrating and fusing.
Anymore unboxing vidoes.hope all is well.wishing both systems a good healing year ahead
We are a newly discovered system and we are happy that there are videos like this.
Hope you all and the animals are doing good!
I like the picture off to the left of a man with rectangular glasses and shapes beside and in front of him that is so cool.
Hi Dylan, welcome to Hosting the show - great job.
It really looks like a lot of pain. It is readable in your face. Im really sorry for you...
Great cool video we can use this to explain to others thanks mate .
Miss you guys hope you're all ok/doing well
i also want to ask, is did in anyway similar or have similar issues as one with schizophrenia would suffer?
The similar feature discussed the most is hearing voices. Both those with schizophrenia and those DID often hear voices.
Not everyone with DID hear voices, but some do. Some (like myself) hear the thoughts and internal voices of their alters inside their mind. This is an example of internal dialogue. This happens with co-conciousness.
Those with schizophrenia hear voices that sound external to them. Sometimes they believe the voices they hear are from other people, angels, demons, extraterrestrials, technology, or ghosts.
Thank you so much!
Where are you???
18:55 same, kinda wish I knew before
Respect
Sorry to bother you, but my now ex therapist told me that I don't have d.i.d because my inner world is too realistic. It's ok if you can't reply ☺️
-Our nameless system
Hey Aether, thanks for the video. Happy New Year! Any chance you have any fictives and can do a video on how they manage fronting in this world? We have a fictive from a science fiction program who's been around since the beginning and is our primary protector. We just don't know how we would manage him fronting with him coming from a fantasy world. There are no videos on this.
Just wanted to say great video, and I love your intro & outro music :D It compels in me a whistle-along xD
Long time no c how's it bin ----->Blake and harriet
It would be cool to see a painting (or other artwork) of your inner world, if you're willing to share it. ❤
These videos and others like it has inspired me to try therapy again. Whilst i am not sure what mechanisms i am lacking, i want the additional help and understanding of what is going on inside.
Hi can you have a older alter even if your in your 20s
Definitely! The body’s age doesn’t create an age limit on the alters- they can be any age, even millions of years old or ageless 👍🏻👍🏻
@@AcrylicAndAether thank you
@@AcrylicAndAether could ypu try and explain complex ptsd for me
Our system is glad to see u again
Loving seeing this out :)
I cannot believe you saved that statement for the very end of the video!
The part about getting diagnosed a second time? 😆 we almost always put a clip at the end of our videos- sometimes it’s something comedic, but sometimes it’s stuff you wouldn’t want to miss