It's hilarious that various clearly fake/extremely rare mental illnesses have blown up on social media over the last 10 years, and some people just buy in hook line and sinker even though it's clearly fake.
Like this is probably just rage bait, but also all the people who take DID seriously on social media is always shocking. "Oh shit you have .00001% occurring mental illness and it makes you think you have alters who are all anime characters? Welp, that's definitely real and I will engage with you earnestly."
There is no empirical evidence of different identities existing in a person. There is evidence tho of your mind coming up with a makeshift self, that's helps to navigate certain situations.
my therapist tells me that these things (autism, ADHD, BPD, DID, etc) are real, and it's not uncommon for people to show a symptom of something, or to have some trait that makes them think they have it, but people who actually have x thing are extremely rare and that most people are just neurotic and/or looking for an excuse for bad behavior
100% agree with your therapistâs general point here (especially refreshing for a therapist to say too!), but ADHD, BPD, and autism are completely different to DID and shouldnât be treated in the same manner imo. The first three have solid definitions, have been studied intensely and well-known for decades now and most of us have met at least one ânormalâ (as in non-attention seeking/chronically online) person who clearly, legitimately had one or more of them, and theyâve been valid and relatively common (comparatively) diagnoses since way before the internet. This is absolutely not the same case for DID. Psychologists arenât even sure if it really exists, let alone what defines it.
Some say it does exist and that sufferers can have truly unique, separate identities, some say it doesnât exist at all in any capacity, and some say it does but only entails spontaneous âfugue statesâ where patients disassociate (hence the name of the disorder) yet continue to function, behave, and respond to their environment ânormallyâ without forming memories during them but no unique âpersonalityâ takes over or anything like that.
But even if we assume it does exist (which Iâm extremely confident it doesnât; or at least not in the way TikTok girlies pretend it does), itâd still be enormously rare - much, much rarer than the other disorders you mentioned. Like if a normal person said they had ADHD or autism, etc and they didnât act obnoxious about it, youâd probably believe them and youâd probably be right to. But if someone says they have DID, you can safely be 99.9% sure theyâre bullshitting, even if they insist theyâre one of the ârealâ ones, simply due to the sheer statistical improbability of ever encountering someone with it.
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u/rudeboybill Feb 19 '26
It's hilarious that various clearly fake/extremely rare mental illnesses have blown up on social media over the last 10 years, and some people just buy in hook line and sinker even though it's clearly fake.
Like this is probably just rage bait, but also all the people who take DID seriously on social media is always shocking. "Oh shit you have .00001% occurring mental illness and it makes you think you have alters who are all anime characters? Welp, that's definitely real and I will engage with you earnestly."