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I dated someone who had it- was beaten heavily during their childhood formative years, and told me that the separation of identities was a means of coping. It
by CactusOnFire 4y ago
I dated someone who had it- was beaten heavily during their childhood formative years, and told me that the separation of identities was a means of coping.
It seemed like an extreme emotional compartmentalization which left them with a fractured sense of self.
Some people might say that they could have just been pulling an elaborate hoax on me from a year and a half. But the amount of acting it would have required just to convince me of this without any real reward would have been a sign of even greater emotional problems than even the different personalities.
- motoboi 4y agoYeah. Think about years-of-sexual-abuse-and-physical-torture-by-a-relative trauma. Think about locked-in-a-basement-forced-to-eat-excrement trauma. Think about forced-for-years-to-rape-your-brother trauma. This is the kind of thing that create severe DID cases. Those things unfortunately exists and occur. Those people are not faking it. Someone who never had a severe and long term trauma claiming to have DID? Completely different situation.
- mise_en_place 4y agoDo they lose memory when switching personalities? I’d imagine it’d be awkward if one personality didn’t know they were dating someone.