This is kind of a rant.

Out of boredom and curiosity I went on Tumblr and searched DID.It really ticked me off to see how ridiculous it is.It's obviously mostly young pre teens and teenagers that are just roleplaying because they think it's such a cool and trendy thing to do.

It ticked me off that they claim system hopping is possible,that an alter from one system can hop into another system.Or that they can do system resets and get rid of all their alters and get completely new ones.That they can have superman,Harry Potter or Spiderman as alters.And so much more total B.S.

They have no clue what they are even talking about.And it's so insulting to those that really do have DID.They are making a joke out of a serious illness,it is a mockery and it's sickening to me.

They say you can choose which alters you want inside,that you can go into someone else's body and use their body for awhile.They claim you can just become a system just because you want to.So much B.S. I can't even remember all of it right now.And of course over 90% are self diagnosed.

It's so wrong.It's degrading and humiliating for anyone with true DID.

Normally those with true DID aren't even aware until they are diagnosed
They don't normally flaunt it or act like it's cool or funny
They don't compete with others over who has the most alters
They don't system hop or system reset
They don't develop DID because Mom or Dad wouldn't let them have a new phone
They don't develop it as a teenager
They don't spend so much time and effort online trying to prove to or convince other people that they really do have it
They don't say hey guess what,I'm dissociating right now,isn't that funny?

It's just so sickening to me! And it's because of things like this that DID isn't taken seriously,why people think it's a fake disorder.

I will be so glad when some other disease or disorder becomes trendy.

And don't even get me started on all the ridiculous terminology and supposed different types of alters

Dead alters
Fictives
Walk-ins
Fictionkin
Otherkin
Soulbound
Worldslider

And the list goes on and on.

Definitely not real DID!

Oh,and the different types of systems ticked me off too.

Like a Tulpa system,where someone purposely creates alters that doesn't even have DID.And they claim they are real,true alters.

It's so freaking disgusting to me!

Oh,and this kind of crap too.

Ask to follow if:

You’re kin with anyone from Harry potter
You're kin with anyone from Hannibal
You're kin with anyone from Steven Universe
You're kin with anyone from Friends
You’re kin with anyone from any version of Alice In Wonderland
You're kin with anyone from Skins
You're kin with anyone from Gilmore Girls
You're kin with anyone from Hawaii 5-0
You are an endogenic/tulpa/soulbond or otherwise non-trauma system


Seriously?Do all these young people think all of this is legit?Come on!

[amandalouise]

Originally Posted by Terish

This is kind of a rant.

Out of boredom and curiosity I went on Tumblr and searched DID.It really ticked me off to see how ridiculous it is.It's obviously mostly young pre teens and teenagers that are just roleplaying because they think it's such a cool and trendy thing to do.

It ticked me off that they claim system hopping is possible,that an alter from one system can hop into another system.Or that they can do system resets and get rid of all their alters and get completely new ones.That they can have superman,Harry Potter or Spiderman as alters.And so much more total B.S.

They have no clue what they are even talking about.And it's so insulting to those that really do have DID.They are making a joke out of a serious illness,it is a mockery and it's sickening to me.

They say you can choose which alters you want inside,that you can go into someone else's body and use their body for awhile.They claim you can just become a system just because you want to.So much B.S. I can't even remember all of it right now.And of course over 90% are self diagnosed.

It's so wrong.It's degrading and humiliating for anyone with true DID.

Normally those with true DID aren't even aware until they are diagnosed
They don't normally flaunt it or act like it's cool or funny
They don't compete with others over who has the most alters
They don't system hop or system reset
They don't develop DID because Mom or Dad wouldn't let them have a new phone
They don't develop it as a teenager
They don't spend so much time and effort online trying to prove to or convince other people that they really do have it
They don't say hey guess what,I'm dissociating right now,isn't that funny?

It's just so sickening to me! And it's because of things like this that DID isn't taken seriously,why people think it's a fake disorder.

I will be so glad when some other disease or disorder becomes trendy.

just a thought here. there are now many roll playing games where you play characters ie harry potter, sims,.... just about any character out there now.

it might be that this tumbler group was such a gaming group where everyone roll plays having a mental disorder.

some people find the sims roll playing pregnancy to be too much
some people find harry potter games roll playing witch craft too much.
some people find virtual reality roll playing drug addiction to be too much
and some people find virtual reality roll playing of mental disorders to be too much.

I do not. I find nothing wrong with virtual reality roll playing for teens and pre teens who may or may not have a mental disorder. (we dont know whether they actually have those disorders and if they do they may be just adding a twist so others on their game do not see through to their actually having the disorder)

Suggestion...look into the garden and see people who have or may not have DID roll playing being bears in a cave and other obviously pretend roll playing. sometimes being obnoxious and roll playing is a way to relieve stress and fears and other situations. if someone who did not know what psych central was and happened on those threads would they think these posts and threads playing pretend to be offensive and harmful to the disorder?

sometimes its so easy to jump to conclusions and judge someone for what we may think of as faking especially when we dont know the whole story.

I am the first person who when encountering things in movies, books and online will get irritated/ triggered, so for me I dont google DID and other mental disorders. I rely on my treatment providers to point me in the right direction.

that said I have been in virtual reality groups in the past on mental and physical health problems and those I have been in were not meant to be literal representations of the disorders and diseases. they were for playing, entertainment, for those who want to get away from their emotional and physical pain reality and go ahead and make fun of their situations, entertain their self rather than feel the pain, find the positives and build the most outrageous avatars and profiles you can. in other words be able to escape reality for a bit.

They are not playing a game,they are claiming to be legit DID.It is not a gaming group.It is not intended to be virtual reality role playing.

It is very insulting and degrading and ridiculous,and yes I am judging them.Having DID,I have the right to do that.And yes,they are definitely faking.It's a disgrace to the true disorder.

The stuff on tumblr is way diff. from the garden here,no comparison.

It's easy to justify something if you haven't seen it yourself,I have seen it.

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I do not. I find nothing wrong with virtual reality roll playing for teens and pre teens who may or may not have a mental disorder

While I see nothing wrong with virtual reality role playing for teens and pre teens either,this is different.I am not talking about a game,and even if it was a game it doesn't seem right to me for kids to do it.

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that said I have been in virtual reality groups in the past on mental and physical health problems

I am surprised to read that considering you are a mental health professional and I hope I never encounter one that would make a mockery of mental health in that way,even if it is just for fun or to relieve stress.Just the same as I would never want to encounter a mortician that plays role playing games online and does morbid things to a corpse,or a cardiologist that role plays for fun.Seems so very wrong to me.

I hate it when people pretend to have DID also, or when they seem to flaunt it, looking for attention, look how weird/ special/ awesome i am, etc.
I do not enjoy having DID. I try to keep it a secret. I dont discuss it with the public, or interviews, or around anyone except for my therapist. I try to lay low. It bothers me when people seem to try to get attention for it,

[Amyjay]

I find that upsetting too. I was diagnosed with DID a few months ago and I HATE having this disorder. Those people have no idea what they are talking about.
What on earth has online gaming done to the world? Those people are not connected to reality.

I've seen Tumblr and didn't care for it like a few individuals on FB. I did get triggered off too at one point.

I hate my DID/OSDD. It is a constant reminder of the hell I lived till I moved out and that this is the end result...an effed up life and mind that I didn't ask for: cheated.

I claim DID/OSDD because we aren't diagnosed but know for a fact that we are multiple, and labels don't matter to us...well, some of us anyways.

Having some level of co-con helps to give insight.

Just don't go back there, I don't/can't.

[Michael W. Harris]

Originally Posted by Starry_Night

I hate it when people pretend to have DID also, or when they seem to flaunt it, looking for attention, look how weird/ special/ awesome i am, etc.
I do not enjoy having DID. I try to keep it a secret. I dont discuss it with the public, or interviews, or around anyone except for my therapist. I try to lay low. It bothers me when people seem to try to get attention for it,

I do not enjoy having a dissociative disorder either. But I did start telling people that I have the disorder to protect myself. I could not get help any other way! I could not find a mental health professional who would even talk to me about the disorder. They still will not talk to me. I have totally given up on getting help.

I recently wrote the Sidran Institute and Dr. Colin Ross's Institute trying to get help. They will not respond to me.

I contacted ISSTD(International Society For The Study Of Trauma And Dissociation) once and they responded pretty quickly.Maybe you could try them?

Dissociation and Trauma: Join ISSTD!

[whispers_inthedark]

Originally Posted by Starry_Night

I hate it when people pretend to have DID also, or when they seem to flaunt it, looking for attention, look how weird/ special/ awesome i am, etc.
I do not enjoy having DID. I try to keep it a secret. I dont discuss it with the public, or interviews, or around anyone except for my therapist. I try to lay low. It bothers me when people seem to try to get attention for it,

I discuss it with a couple close friends. It is hard to say/talk about the first few times but the couple friends who do know are very understanding and don't seem to see me differently. I appreciate that.

[finding_my_way]

that kind of thing really upsets me too.

i was questioning that diagnosis myself for a few years and went back and forth about it but didn't flaunt it or talk about it much with many people (and no one in person that i recall). it was terrifying and confusing to me, and i just thought i was making it all up and was just crazy. but then i did get a confirmed diagnosis. i just had a lot of stuff to go on to come to the conclusion on my own before an actual diagnosis but definitely didn't want to make a circus act out of it.

what also upsets me though is people who think they have something and others go along with it and assume it is what they have instead of telling them to seek professional help and/or letting them know that things can look similar and be any number of things. i see it a lot on mental health forums/chats.

but yes, the ones who outright fake things irritate me a lot.

the other thing is jokes people make. i have teen nieces, and one posted something on FB about multiple personalities and some joke about it. their mother doesn't know i have DID, so i wasn't about to say something about it but didn't find it amusing at all. i let it slide just because they are teens, and i know they don't have the capacity to understand the impact of things like that. their brother also once years ago joked about self harm, and he got in crap for it (by my stepdad), so i think that set him straight about that.

it is hard at times to not get upset about things like that. we are the ones who have to live with it all everyday, and it's not often fun or funny and is definitely not easy at all.

and DID is something that is still so misunderstood. even more is the spectrum of it which can make things confusing as well. and having jokes made about it or people thinking it's fun to pretend to have it is just so ignorant.

Originally Posted by finding_my_way

what also upsets me though is people who think they have something and others go along with it and assume it is what they have instead of telling them to seek professional help and/or letting them know that things can look similar and be any number of things. i see it a lot on mental health forums/chats.

That upsets me too,and I have seen that happen alot too.Sometimes people just agree and encourage it though ,maybe because they are afraid to speak up or afraid they will upset someone if they tell them to seek professional help or tell them they could be wrong or it doesn't sound like DID at all.

I think what upsets me more than that though on those same forums/chats is when there are people that claim they have it but you can tell by what they post that they really don't even understand what DID is.That feels invalidating to me and I know I shouldn't let it bother me but it does.It's hard to not tell them they have no freaking clue.

Haha,we must have visited some of the same mental health forums.

Originally Posted by Anonymous37915

That upsets me too,and I have seen that happen alot too.Sometimes people just agree and encourage it though ,maybe because they are afraid to speak up or afraid they will upset someone if they tell them to seek professional help or tell them they could be wrong or it doesn't sound like DID at all.

I think what upsets me more than that though on those same forums/chats is when there are people that claim they have it but you can tell by what they post that they really don't even understand what DID is.That feels invalidating to me and I know I shouldn't let it bother me but it does.It's hard to not tell them they have no freaking clue.

Haha,we must have visited some of the same mental health forums.

I'm not one to accuse others of faking or that they are making up a disorder for whatever reason being. It has happened to me and it hurts. I'd rather just not respond and walk away.

Goodbye Terish.