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Originally Posted by amandalouise
one thing I do know about people who worry about future problems is they can accidentally cause their self to ****Appear**** to have alters when in fact they have consciously or unconsciously created false alters...alters that were never there to begin with, but because they want to believe they will snap if something happens, their mind gives them their wish so to speak, kind of like someone who wants to be sick for the attention, or someone who wishes so much they were sick, their bodies react by appearing to have those symptoms and problems that a person with the problem would really have...
people who do this are called "hypochondriacs".. its a whole other mental disorder that you really dont want to cause yourself because its a bugger to break out of. and causes a lot of stigma because once its discovered the person mentally created a false alter most treatment providers around here where I live and work rarely believe that client about having problems that are not a figment of the clients imagination.
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DID in itself seems to be a very controversial psychological school of thought. some deny it even exists!
as for the creation of what i will call "pseudo-alters", these people are just as mentally ill unless they have been somewhat subconciously hypnotised to believe that they actually have a illness in which they dont. people who usually feign alters and dissociative amnesia are also hurting, but in a different way. sometimes it's easier to pretend to be one thing when u can't really label what it is you feel you need. so u act out something you think that works, and when it does it becomes self-serving to your needs and the whole behavior is reinforced. it's all about un-met needs and the ways in which people devise to get them met. thru ourselves. and thru other people..
some therapists have been outright and publicly blamed for "creating" false diagnoses of DID into patients. (anyone remember Sybil?) these types of patients typically have no previous history of dissociation and symptoms seem to emerge only after they are brought up in Therapy as possible options