Dissociative identity disorder (DID) is a mental illness that is primarily seen in victims of childhood trauma and/or repetitive abuse.
It’s a complex disorder that makes life challenging, but once you learn about it and learn how to manage it and live with it, it can aid your life in many ways instead of it being the debilitating disorder that’s frowned upon in the media.
I’ve been diagnosed since I was 21, but DID has an onset during childhood so a large number of people with DID live with it their entire lives, going undiagnosed or receiving incorrect diagnoses because it’s still known as rare and many professionals aren’t quite sure what to look out for.
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