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Old Aug 21, 2015, 11:45 AM
CalmingOcean CalmingOcean is offline
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Originally Posted by amandalouise View Post
my opinion is that it doesnt matter whether I believe this person in the video has DID or not. Im not her and Im not her treatment provider. those are the only ones in my opinion qualified to say whether this person has DID or not.

so when I watch stuff like this I put it in perspective...

it makes good ratings to put something like this on the air whether this person has it or not people are going to tune in which means the nielsen ratings go up, which means more money coming in to the show.

sometimes when dramatic shows like this are shown a lot of times that corresponds with something like the shows being in danger of being cancelled or the shows ratings have dropped so something has to happen to catch the max number of people so lets move the show to a better time slot and put on something that is rare and controversial. not saying this is why that episode when it aired just saying sometimes I do my research on shows like this to decide whether I want to watch them and if its with in a possibility of this I pass on that show.

my point its not up to me to say someone on tv does or doesnt have that mental disorder. I leave that up to the show to discover that when they choose to do their updates on past guests a lot of these cases on various mental disorders on dr phil, oprah and what have you have already been debunked, and labeled as hoax, fraud, and scams for the money they received from the shows (not saying whether this has happened with this show because I did not check it out other than the first 5 minutes to realize I had seen this before years ago)

for me what matters is my own life and taking care of my own life and family, not worrying about whos what on tv. thats show business (dr phil) this is life (my life and family)
I guess my only beef with this episode (tho it was entertaining), to learn you are unfragmented and then to see this show and her depicting DID in my eyes, all wrong, it just feeds the negative stigma ALREAY attached to the dignosis (and sure, I have a part that believes that stigma)
Thanks for this!
amandalouise, Ellahmae