I graduated medical school at Johns Hopkins University with the intent to go into neuropsychiatry, I also suffer from dissociative identity disorder, I am not looking for sympathy when I say it is an abject hellhole, but I also must stress that I have spoken to the leading authority on DID, Dr. Rich Lowenstein, who had an entire unit devoted to the care and study of those with DID, DDNOS, and other conditions

The trend of "self diagnosis" and advertising this condition as a poppsych dx is harmful. People who actually have this condition would not wish it upon their worst enemy, It is a hellhole, and it cheapens the experience, makes it much more difficult for clinicians to diagnose, and the current protocol for managing DID is incredibly harmful if implemented for those who do not have this condition.

Having this problem is a scary, frightening reality that permeates every aspect of life, and having talked to others who legitimately suffer from this condition, there is a genuine feeling of shame and a stigma that was not otherwise present. Pretending to claim you have this issue under the auspices of "plurality" is an affont to those who have suffered from it, those who may show up in desperate need of psychiatric intervention but hide their dx in fear of it being discounted.

To take a condition listed as "the most severe form" of dissociative disorders in the DSM V and run with it shows an extreme lack of disregard and care for those who must live with this condition day to day as a fact of life. I cannot stress enough the harm the populariziation of this condition has done, and speaking from a clinical side, the amount of confusion it has sown in making an accurate dx for what we in med school used to call a "zebra", the clinical presentation of DID is extremely rare comparitive to the amount of people marching around screaming about their "plurality"

The neuroscience on this is clear, has been studied, and is accurate. When you attention seek in this way, you cheapen the experience of everyone who has been pushed to the point of fragmentation