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I think often any kind of dissociative disorder is hard to understand, the only reason people think automatically DID is because the way the media has made it into a huge deal.
Like psychosis. People can say "I am schizoeffective" and in turn their peers will say "Oh you're schizophrenic"
I can't explain DID it seems to save my life so I just explain dissociation. I don't even given them the name I just tell them I have a dissociative issue and when they get confused I explain the spectrum. That everyone dissociates by at least day dreaming, however because of a difficult childhood, my dissociation gets more intense where I actually leave all together not remembering anything" That's about as much detail as I can give before they get confused. And I've tried and tried and tried to explain.
If they ask if it's DID just kindly say "No it's not DID, it's a dissociative disorder, everyone dissociates even you when you are daydreaming, it's a disorder because it's more developed than day dreaming but no I do not split into seperate personalities" Maybe that will help?
I've even had people when trying to explain DID say that it sounded like schizophrenia, so I try to explain in as simple words as possible and only what they need to know or what I think they will actually understand of the disorder
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