I find those kinds of dialogues helpful too, and I totally get what you are saying about DID and diagnoses and so forth.

In general, I try not to talk about or identify too heavily with my symptoms and diagnostic categories. I consider myself me first and foremost, and then these other things (depression, PTSD, dissociation) are things I have to deal with sometimes, just like some people have to deal with blood sugar and others have to deal with bad backs or migraines or whatever.

I don't talk about my issues much or disclose much because most people are judgmental and uncomfortable and it doesn't help me to disclose, it just opens me up to someone else's issues and BS.

On the one hand, there's this big push toward 'don't be a victim' in society, but some people ARE victims. It doesn't make you bad, it's just the accurate way to describe what happened. But they say it like it's a character flaw or something--being a victim. If someone whacks you over the head and takes your stuff, you were victimized. It's just what happened.

But if you then go on to talk about it for the next year, people get mad, like, buck up, get over it. Why? Because it makes them uncomfortable. They don't want to think that THEY might get whacked over the head by some stranger. They want to think they're too smart for that.

So I don't talk about it except to people close to me, here, or in therapy. Because I don't need that kind of thing in my life ,it's hard enough as it is.