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Telling Your Family You Have Dissociative Identity Disorder
Telling Your Family About Your Diagnosis Isn’t Easy
The dissociative identity disorder diagnosis is challenging for us who have it to bear. We long to tell someone we can trust about our problem, but what the public knows about DID is far overshadowed by what they do not.
Most of us want to turn to our family and friends for support but are afraid and have reason to. This article will focus on telling your family and friends that you have dissociative identity disorder.
Colored by the Movies
The media tends to paint those who have DID as unstable and murderous. Movies like Split and Sybil make us look like we have either murderous tendencies or that we switch in public and stand in a water fountain.
Of course, none of these narratives tell the truth. Indeed, most people with dissociative identity disorder rarely switch in public where others can notice. The whole purpose of DID is to hide. Why would we want to act abnormally in public and get noticed?
The movies and, occasionally, television programs color our positive traits and trade them in for false narratives. It is no wonder that our families and friends do not believe us.
