• blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works
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    Went a day without eating a meal, more likely. You don’t need to know how to cook to go through a sleeve of crackers and a block of cheese

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    Multiple personality disorder isn’t a thing. Having multiple personalities as a result of disassocitive identity disorder isn’t a thing.

    The supporters of the idea that multiple personalities exist rest their faulty belief on shoddy studies and unproven beliefs.

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      Mental health clinician here. Everyone I’ve ever encountered with a DID diagnosis or who claimed to have multiple personalities instead had either PTSD or Borderline Personality Disorder or both. I genuinely believe DID does not exist as a standalone diagnosis.

      People who think they have DID often respond well to Dialectical Behavior Therapy and/or trauma therapy, depending on their specific needs, which are the primary treatments for BPD and PTSD, respectively.

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        My spouse had a therapist that tried very hard to convince them that they had MPD (before it was rolled into DID) and repressed memories; they dumped the counselor. And yeah, they have CPTSD from familial abuse.

        The perspective I’m coming at this from is that a lot of these super-fringe ideas really got off the ground with the Satanic Panic that started very small in the late 70s, and went on through the 90s; you had groups like RAMCOA (Ritual Abuse, Mind Control and Organised Abuse Special Interest Group) that pushed really wacky ideas as being absolutely true, you had people insisting that repressed memories were 100% real rather than being things that you’d simply forgotten or fabricated memories (the work of Dr. Elizabeth Loftus shows how memories can be fabricated, and strongly suggests that ‘repressed memories’ don’t exist in the way that was popularized in the 80s), that multiple personalities were ‘fractured’ personalities that sprang into being to protect the self, and so on. The people that came up with these batshit ideas are still around, pushing the same nonsense, but they keep changing the names to try and give them a veneer of reasonableness.

        And yet, if that’s the way that shit really worked, you should see that often with highly traumatized people; you should see DID and repressed memories in soldiers that have been in intense combat, in torture victims, in people that have lived through extreme, long-lasting abuse from parents and partners. Instead you see people that can’t forget the terrible things that happened, people that have a trauma response with certain sounds, smells, etc. (triggers).

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          I should add there’s a 3rd category of people I’ve encountered who have DID: people who have therapists who convinced them they have DID. We’ve definitely recommended some people terminate toxic relationships with therapists.

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        How about projection? As in, you imagine a personality/character and you project it upon yourself as to become said person. What would that fall under?

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          The psychological term “projection” means something totally different. What you’re describing doesn’t sound like any mental health condition I’m aware of

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            Pure curiosity now, as i love this stuff, but what is projection then?
            And what i meant is to go as far that the person basically becomes the ‘projected’ person

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    Hey I sometimes go a few days without eating and I know how to cook, so I don’t think if I had some personality dissonance id do any better.

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    No, see, a bunch more of those personalities make up the difference with interest because they’re bankers.

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      Let me get two Big Macs and two apple pies A little bit of Sprite and a side of fries Let me get a McDouble, let me get a McChicken Hot sauce, make sure that shit kickin’ I want a McRib, before I McPiss Let me get a hash brown if it isn’t lunch yet If it is, I’ma be McSad and upset Let me get some nuggets too I want a bundt cake and a parfait Two of them, I really had a hard day Let me get a McCafe latte And a couple hundred large shamrock shakes Powerade, Hi-C Ranch snack wrap on the side, please? Let me get a burger with a slice of cheese But no onions or pickles, so hold that please I want a McFlurry, two of those One M&M, one Oreo’s I want everything on the dollar menu And a burger with jalapenos Let me get a snack wrap for my backpack Better not tax that, add duck sauce, no Aflac Taking everything to go, so pack that in a black bag Hi-Rez eatin’ all the flapjacks Did you get all that?

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    I’m sure this is referring to the fact that there are plenty of foods that don’t require cooking. But binge-restrict disorders often end up in a caloric excess for a variety of reasons

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      Uhm… Sure. Lets just gloss over the 400 types of personality disorder i guess. But the headline specifically states “one day without eating”

      The cooking part is just the funny bit

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        18 hours ago

        Dissociative identity disorder is not a personality disorder, it’s a dissociative disorder.

        It’s 4chan so we can’t even take the OP at face value for what the couple actually believes or said

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          TIL. But it’s hardly necesessary to have a PHD in psychiatry to understand the funny part in this.

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          The text is in the font and writing style of the Daily Mail, so even more so. There’s a pretty high chance the reporter never even spoke to them.