Has anyone came across anyone who has faked DID? Like in your treatment programs or anything?

For most people I am actually worried about their well being, that they fake anything for attention. Especially something that requires a lot of acting out. Because inducing attention in that sort of way is a d/o in and of itself.

But there is one person who I cannot forgive and I feel really bad about it. I feel so guilty. My team says that we should support each other, because we're "similar". But we're not. I'm mad at her.

It's a long story. But I have a treatment team and the clients we all know each other, we all go to group therapies, etc together. Well this girl appeared to have what everyone thinks of as DID. She would speak in demonic tones, tell people she had multiple personalities, throw herself on the ground and start crying, etc. I mean it had to take most of this girls energy to keep this up.

Because I knew nothing about DID at the time, I just thought that that was what it looked like. I didn't know any different. Some therapist diagnosed her with DID and sent her off to my team, who also just assumed she had DID. Who are also not trained to diagnose, obviously.

My DID went unnoticed by myself and anyone else who professionally treated me, because of this girl. In fact they started to believe I had it, directly after she came back from the same hospital that diagnosed me, they undiagnosed her.

They assumed and I assumed that DID people acted like her, and so I just had PTSD and depression.

I am SO angry. That for years she kept this up and it delayed my treatment so much. Does she have any idea what I've been through for the last three-four years trying to find answers? Trying to get people to understand what I'm going through. And it was right there all along. Right under my nose. I know I should be upset with my providers, and I was. I went through a lot of that in the hospital. Being upset at the mental health world. They told me point blank I didn't have DID, because I DIDN'T ACT LIKE HER. She told everyone she had DID. Even myself. It was a good source of denial. "Well you don't act like *Amy, so you don't have DID". Yep that's what I told myself, over and over and over again.

If it walks like a duck, it must be a duck. But no, it was a goose.

It was directly after she got undiagnosed that people started to put pieces together. Her irresponsibility delayed my life by years. While I sat by just teetering on the edge, she held the answer in the palm of her hand.

We're similar how? Because she faked DID and I have DID? We both have trauma backgrounds. Hers just led to borderline instead of DID. But I just get upset by being compared to her, because quite obviously that didn't work well in the past.

JUST an FYI though this doesn't mean I hate all people who fake it and I'm not on some witch hunt to find fakers now or anything. And I don't want anyone to point at themselves and call themselves fakers, as a form of denial, because I would do that. This girl knew, very consciously, that she was playing with professionals.