"The diagnosis is controversial and remains disputed." - the second sentence on the Wikipedia article for DID

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a moderate, poorly organized collection of facts about dissociative disorders and plurality
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Skepticism, Ableism, & Abuse in Psychiatry

This section is not meant to condemn the contributions by those mentioned, but to bring to light injustices and bias within the field.

Informal Accounts, Opinions, & Metaphors

  • Singlets using parts-based language to describe dissociative emotional experiences
    • "I feel like a different person when I'm angry", "Part of me wants to say yes, part of me says no"
  • Spiritual and/or metaphorial practices such as system hopping
    • No spiritual practice necessitates "proof", this doesn't relate to the validity of any type of system
  • Everyone has trauma, and everyone dissociates, it comes free with being alive
  • Emancipation (dissociation) and elaboration
    • Parts can be one or more of these things: dissociated, elaborated, and disordered. Dissociation does not necessitate disorder, etc.
      • Emancipated: Separated // Elaborated: Developed // Disordered: Distressed
  • https://kinhost.org/Main/NotFromAbuse

"a disorder isn't a cause, diagnosis is the effect. cause: having set of symptoms. effect: you get diagnosed"
- Futaba C.

"[In] my mind I see it as[...]

Dissociated and elaborated, not disordered → Plural
Dissociated and disordered, not elaborated → (C)PTSD, BPD, OSDD
Elaborated and disordered, not dissociated → IMHO bipolar and similar mood disorders
All of the above → OSDD, DID

There are tons of ways to "have parts" and any number of these ^ people might identify as more than one."
- Cendreé G.

Internal Family Systems

The DSM-5

DID diagnostic criteria:

"A. Disruption of identity[...]two or more distinct personality states[...]marked discontinuity in sense of self[...]related alterations in [various functions].
B. Dissociative amnesia: Recurrent gaps in the recall of [events] that are inconsistent with ordinary forgetting.
C. The symptoms cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.
D. The disturbance is not a normal part of a broadly accepted cultural or religious practice.
E. The symptoms are not attributable to the physiological effects of a substance or another medical condition."

Facts
  • Dissociative disorders are strongly associated with complex and/or early traumatic experiences (compile sources)
  • Diagnostic criteria is not focused on the causes, exceptions are listed (see criteria D and E)
  • Note criterion C which necessitates distress for the condition to be considered disordered

Structural Dissociation

  • Stating the Theory of Structural Dissociation is concrete scientific proof that systems cannot possibly form non-traumagenically is misinformation...

    "Remember this is called the Theory of Structural Dissociation. A theory is a set of beliefs[...]to describe what is possible." (x)

  • https://did-research.org/origin/structural_dissociation/problems

Endogenic Systems

The "Empowered" and "Natural" Multiplicity Movements
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Pub: 05 Nov 2025 05:09 UTC

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