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Originally Posted by Amyjay
Hmm, I think their stats are a little off, at one point in the video Encina said something like "1-2% of the population have DID, so that means between 75 and 150 million people have been diagnosed with a dissociative disorder." The 1-2 % of the population figure seems the figure that is most often used, but saying that percentage of the population are estimated to have a dissociative identity disorder and saying 1-2% of the population have been diagnosed with the disorder are two very, very different things. Most likely only a very small fraction of the people who are estimated to have DID ever get formally diagnosed with it. But yes, it seems that 1-2 % figure is the most frequently used estimate of the prevalence of DID. It is not a rare thing.
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I only know that toddlers and small children get traumatized every second of every day around this planet. It is common sense. Most of the traumas do not come from deliberate abuse but simply bad parenting skills. Most children can get over these type of traumas if their parents are paying attention. But, many parents, like mine, have no common sense about what can traumatize a toddler. They never understand that their child has been seriously traumatized. I personally believe that the majority of mental illness come from childhood abuse, traumas, or other developmental problems associated with dysfunctional parents and families. It will be some years yet before we have correct statistics.