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Dissociative Identity Disorder Awareness Day
March 5th
Every March 5th people who are in some way connected to dissociative identity disorder celebrate awareness day. As the title states, March 5th represents our desire as survivors and those who love them want to raise as much awareness as possible.
Why DID Awareness Day?
The reason we want to spread the word of what DID is and the truths about the mental health challenge because there is so much misinformation online and in the minds of many psychiatrist, psychologists, and therapists.
Bottom line, dissociative identity disorder is a real problem that develops between the ages from birth to around 7 years. It is caused by severe and repeated trauma in the form of abuse of any kind and neglect. It can also form because of the child living in a war zone or something similar where their life is constantly endangered.
Some More Facts About Dissociative Identity Disorder
Up until the mid-1990s, DID was called multiple personality disorder but was renamed to better describe the occurrences we experience. There is an estimate that 2% of the population have DID. In case you are wondering, the numbers of 2% equals 6,280,000 people in the United States alone who live with the condition.
